Time is up with the evo Fast Fleet Jaguar F-type, a brilliant old-school British GT that gave us 12 months and 11,000 miles of fabulous V8-powered fun - evoFastFleet
I was surprised at how up for it the F-type was when you really stretched it. Jags tend to be a bit of a handful when pushed to extremes, but the R-Dynamic F-type had a precision that always made it predictable and exploitable, even in wet conditions. The brakes – bigger in R-Dynamic spec – could be a little sharp on your initial input, but there was plenty of power and enough feel to drive with finesse.
Ride-wise I tended not to stiffen the suspension in Dynamic mode unless the surface was particularly smooth. On typical country roads it dealt with lumps and bumps better in its more pliant settings. However, I did enjoy the added sharpness and response provided by the sportier powertrain and steering modes; these just injected a nice amount of energy into the F-type’s responses without making it too aggressive.Similarly I pretty much always ran the car with the exhaust in its more vocal mode.
Apart from a couple of scuffs on the left-rear and right-front wheels there was very little in the way of wear and tear to indicate the car had covered more than 12,000 miles. The driver’s seat bolster resisted scuffs and creases from repeated ingress and egress, while the paintwork seemed resistant to all but the faintest road rash. Some of the chrome surround for the side windows started to come slightly adrift, but that’s the closest there was to any kind of fault.
All of which left me rather bemused at the predicament Jaguar currently finds itself in. Internal politics notwithstanding, I’ve never understood why a car as good as the F-type can have been so overlooked. It might not hit the dynamic heights of a
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