Review of the Jaguar F-Type R Coupe. I mean, just look at it.
Everywhere I drove, this car turned heads. People in both trendy Manhattan neighborhoods and backcountry villages in Connecticut loved this car.
Many thought it was something Italian, like a Ferrari or a Maserati, and more than one person said something to the effect of "I've never seen a Jaguar like that before."
That's the thing about the F-Type Coupe; the form is so spectacular, the function doesn't really matter. This is a car Jaguar could — and probably does — sell on looks alone.
But this car's story doesn't end there. My particular tester was an R model. As such, it comes with a 550-horsepower supercharged 5.0-liter V8 engine, all-wheel drive (AWD) and an 8-speed automatic gearbox. The total cost: A little over $119,000.
Muscle, with class
The F-Type name is a reference to Jaguar's iconic 1962 E-Type sports car, considered by some the most beautiful car ever built. And its moniker is more than a nod to the past; the F-Type is the British brand's first true sports car since the E-Type.Like the E-Type before it, I'd agruge the F-Type is just about the best-looking car on sale today. It manages to be muscular, but not in the way an anabolically enhanced athlete is muscular. Somehow the F-Type is both punchy and subtle, masculine and feminine.
Its design doesn’t shout to the world about how great it is at first glance, but invites repeated viewings. Each look reveals a new detail that you might have missed before. If you catch it at the right angle, you might notice how stubby the rear deck is or the subtle upward curve of the exhaust pipes.
The car is rich with little things that catch your eye the longer you spend time with it.
Its proportions are spot-on as well. It takes the classic sports car formula of long-hood, short-deck and modernizes it. The wheels are pushed way out towards the four corners and the character line rises dramatically at the rear.
You could spend hours looking at the F-Type and never get tired of it.
“The trick with any great design is actually very, very simple and very very spontaneous,” said Julian Thomson, Jaguar’s Advanced Design Director, in an interview with Mashable. “[The designer] should impart their energy and that spontaneity in how it is.”
“It’s a very natural, artistic process to do something like an F-Type.”
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