2024 Jaguar F-Type R75 Review
2024 Jaguar F-Type R75
Base Price: $115,000
Supercharged 5.0 Liter V8
500 HP / 516 TQ
0-60: 3.5 seconds
— Guy who did stuff: Yousef Alvi —
Hello and goodbye to the Jaguar F-Type. It’s been with us for a only 11 short years but unfortunately this is it’s last hurrah. It never was nor meant to be a volume seller, selling in hundreds of units per months instead of tens of thousands. Add that along with the ever changing automotive landscape, Jaguar decided to put the name late to rest. Like the legendary E-Type the F-Type was the singular vehicle in Jaguar’s lineup that even made the most casual automotive observer…stop, stare and admire.
It’s refreshed design that debuted back in 2021, elevated it’s beauty to legendary levels. It’s no stretch to call this one of the best looking vehicles ever made. From it’s narrow headlamps, short overhangs, tidy beltlines to the rakish rearend, the F-Type is a vehicle whose mere presence will forever etch ‘Jaguar’ to your subconscious. All of that is before you hear it.
I have driven hundreds of vehicles and I say without a doubt in mind…this V8 F-Type is the best sounding out of the entire lot. Even in the most racous setting, it is still quiet and civilized around town. Only when you pass above 4K RPM is when the gates to Hell are thrown open, unleashing Lucifer and his hordes of demons screaming out of its quad tailpipes. It’s loud, ferocious, dirty, snarly, enthralling and hilarious experience that everyone, at least once their life should experience! It’s a singular aural experience that will either cement the beauty of internal combustion to your heart or scare you into public transport for eternity.
“It’s a singular aural experience that will either cement the beauty of internal combustion to your heart or scare you into public transport for eternity. ”
If there was an achilles heal to the F-Type was its price point. Coming in at $77,900 for for the still V8 powered base model, all the up to $115,000 for this supercharged (limited edition) V8 model, it found itself in the unenviable position of being around the same price as the Boxster, Corvette and M4. The same position but with an entirely different execution to its design.
While the likes of the aforementioned models are ingrained with ‘sports car’ through and through, the F-Type never felt similar. In other words, while the F-Type has/had sports car performance, it’s/it never felt like a vehicle that one would take on a track day. On vacation yes, so blasting through the mountains in the F-Type with your significant other would be/would’ve been a joyous beautiful occasion. What makes/made the F-Type so special that it blends/blended sports car performance with the livability of a Grand Tourer.
Let’s go ahead and break it down:
The Great
Looks: One of the best looking cars ever made.
Looks: Seriously. Look at it. It’s the type of beauty that forever gets ingrained into your subconscious.
Soundtrack: Snarly, evil, viscous, dirty, enthralling, intoxicating, grin inducing, EV bludgeoningly good
The Good
Clicky things that you push to do stuff: I think they’re called ‘boudtons’. It’s an amazing, these so-called ‘bewttons’. They’re made out of individual pieces of plastic or metal and instead pushing a screen…you ‘click’ the ‘buttan’. IT’S SO COOL. I wonder if it will catch on???
Steering: One of the finest examples of steering feel, proper weight and tactile feedback you will ever feel from this side of a 911.
Size: In an era of gigantic…everything. The F-Type is refreshingly svelte in its size.
The Bad
Squeaky: No matter how you adjust the seats, it will rub and squeak against the rear bulkhead. Along with the squeaky center arm rest…it’s a bit squeaky.
Infotainment: It’s old, very old. The screen also washes out in direct sunlight.
The Ugly
How dare you. It’s automotive personification of Aphrodite.
The Overall
We don’t deserve a vehicle like the F-Type. It’s an under appreciated gem of a thing whose fleeting presence will mark those who have driven one for all of time.
Farewell friend and so long
