Jaguar's EV future looms large, but the spirit of its 5.0-litre battleaxe will live on in WC1.
. Seems an appropriate term given the musical quality of that engine. Arguably the supercharged V8 has never sounded better, and there’s a reason for that…
Charles Richardson, Jag’s Senior Sound Engineer - there’s a proper job title, eh - said: “The F-Type’s supercharged V8 makes a unique sound because of the meticulous optimisation work we applied to the entire powertrain, most of all to the intake and exhaust systems – more than 85 iterations before we first launched the car, and developed continuously ever since.
“The culmination of that work – the sounds you experience driving the F-Type R 75 – is something we want to be available for generations to come. Archiving it with the British Library allows us to do that, and that’s something we’re very proud of.” Jaguar says the recordings will be catalogued in the British Library archives from the Autumn, and it’s availableif you’ve somehow not experienced it before. After that it’s going to ‘archived in institutions around the world, capturing a global love for the famous growl’. Whatever Jag’s future holds, it’s not going to forget the past anytime soon - neither are we…
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