More Jaguar F-type images have been leaked ahead of its debut at the Paris motor show this week.
The latest leaked pictures show how the production-specification F-type will appear from the rear and in profile. They also reveal the interior for the first time.
The F-type’s cabin will feature heavily sculpted sports seats, with what appears to be a leather-covered dashboard and alcantara steering wheel. The F-type will carry Jaguar’s standard infotainment system.
It had previously been revealed the F-type would feature an eight-speed automatic gearbox, but these pictures reveal it will be operated by a manual-look gearshift, rather than the rotary dial found in other Jaguar Land Rover models.
The sleek rear end, shown in a production-ready state for the first time, will have more angular lights than the Jaguar XK, and the twin rear exhausts are centrally-mounted.
A ‘R’ badged performance version will be offered after launch, but the car shown here is an ‘S’ variant, which will be the range-topper initially.
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Technically this is very disappointing and, frankly, a bit of a p***-take. "Oooooo, look, we've got a V6 left over from our XJ and XF saloons since nobody wants to wear the fuel consumption of a V8 anymore, so why don't we bung it into our new sports car along with the obligatory 8-speed ZF box. Let's give it some flappy paddles and the punters won't notice that's it's actually a cut-and-shut XK chassis with less than 100kg shaved off the net result......"
Thank God that it's got some Ian Callum stylistic magic since this seems to be just a rebodied XK (now some 8 years old or more in design) with the latest entrails they've had hanging around from the XJ/XF updates. Zuffenhausen will be sleeping soundly tonight and I'll bet that a Boxster-S PDK will do everything a V6-S can do with £ 5K change in your pocket. Any fool knows that a proper sports car needs Chapmaneque "just-add-lightness". I just only hope that as a paid-up member of UK plc they don't notice in California and Shanghai.......
LOL Bialbero
Agree with (almost) everything you said mate. But don't blame Peugeot for the gaping grille. I know they did it first but I'm sure Jag were more swayed by Maserati. After all they (or rather Pininfarina) began the whole oversized grille + narrow lights thing, with the Quattroporte. Now everyone's at it, from Rolls to Ford. Looking again at the F-Type and XK, I think it was a mistake to abandon a slim oval grille aperture. It is/was unique to Jag sports cars. But I suppose Ian Callum would say they wanted to distance the two models. As a result the pretty rear half of the F-Type seems pulled down by the heavy front half. And yes, the 'gills' are horrid. Finally... I think they should do a deep green but maybe a metallic emerald rather than dark Brit Racing?
Looks nice but.....
It would have been better if it was priced closer to the Boxster/SLK. Probably sell a shed load more too..