Deciding two wheels weren’t enough, Jaguar unveiled its 2016 F-Type Coupe R in South Africa, which puts all four on the floor instead of just the two in the back.
AutoGuide reports the sports car is able to charge from the starting grid to 60 mph in just 3.9 seconds, hitting the speed wall at 186 mph. The AWD R will be just one of 12 options available to F-Type shoppers by 2016, expanding from just six at present. The expansion is due to the introduction of AWD.
The F-Type Coupe R was also used to help establish communications protocol between the pilot behind the Bloodhound SSC — who will break the sound barrier on the ground on its way to over 1,000 mph — and the vehicle’s team, radioing a jet flying 50 feet above the ground at 500 mph over the Hakskeen Pan.
More details and photos will come next week, when the AWD F-Type Coupe R rolls down the ramp at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show.
Smart move by Jaguar, the R Coupe needs AWD to travel comfortably across the Serengeti
And they said the hatchback was dead…
I think it’s a high-end thing now, you think it will have reverse facing seats? Very, chi-chi
It’s a “liftback”! A hatch rests in the vertical position. A lift back rests in horizontal position.
This is of course, totally untrue, but for marketing purposes….who cares?
psst, he was being sarcastic
…looks like a solstice coupé: too bad jaguar didn’t put a targa roof on it…
The Serengeti is in Tanzania… Worlds apart, worlds.
The car and the Serengeti are both in Africa, but the picture looks like Utah, so there’s that
Correct, they are both in Africa…
The salt pan is in South Africa, the country, not a region, at the very southern tip of Africa. Tanzania closer to the middle of Africa. This Jag would not make the trip with out a great deal of money and a good supply of bravery pills.
South Africa is both a region and a country. My original post about crossing the Serengeti was pure sarcasm about a car that quite obviously is not up for the task and I thought that was obvious, I do apologize
Those who remember the Integra from years past have since graduated from such cars. We drive midsize sedans and crossovers now because we have families and much different priorities. We aren’t teenagers or college students any longer. We’re all in our late 20s and early 30s these days. Of course an Integra doesn’t excite us!
I had a Honda Prelude during my teenage through college years (2001 – 2006). If Honda said, “In 2016, the Prelude will return.”, I wouldn’t care. I have a wife and kid on the way. A 2 door sport coupe couldn’t be further from my mind. Now, if you told me Acura was building a longitudinal FWD/AWD layout and the Legend name was revived, you’d have my attention. Maybe not a sale, but that would at least interest me.
Sometimes it pays for a brand to revisit its roots. However, at the root of it all for Acura, the Integra may as well have been a dressed up Honda Civic. It was a lightweight FWD sporty car with a high revving 4 cylinder motor. There’s far more exciting cars on the market than that.
Dude, this is the Jaguar thread, but good points
Wow, this was totally meant for another thread. Nothing to see here folks, moving right along.
So since you have moved on there is nobody else who exists that might want sporty cars? A couple million people must not have got the memo!
And the average buyer of a car like an F-Type is most likely a man with money and a family. As much as they try to market it as such an $80K coupe is not something a young person can afford.
Similarly just because someone is forced to drive midsize sedans/crossovers due to their financial situation and logistical constraints doesn’t mean they are also forced to limit their interests to said cars (or have any interest in said cars at all to be frank). This post wreaks of unthusiasm. Becoming an adult and parent doesn’t mean you have to give up your interests and dreams.
This. Although I’d call it narcissism rather than unthusiasm.
Good looking car.
I find it curious that knowing how weight affects performance and how the commentariat here eschews such things and is not shy in making their feelings known, especially when it comes to the Corvette, that the RWD F-Type R coupe weighs 3917#. Yes Three Thousand… Nine Hundred… Seventeen.
Let’s place that number into perspective. The mighty ZL1 weighs 4120#. Just 203 pounds more than this car. The upcoming Z06, according to Chevy, will weigh 3524#. A difference of 393#.
Why is is that when certain cars are perceived as heavy they get called to the carpet yet others barely get a mention?
I have been calling out the F-Type’s weight from day 1. It should be about 500-1000lbs lighter, given that it has a bespoke aluminum chassis.
Not sure what your examples speak to either. ZL1 is unacceptably overweight, but then it’s based on a large car platform that is like 10 years old. Z06 is unacceptably overweight as well, but again, it is still a good 400lbs less than the Jag, at a lower price, with a less sophisticated (but more effective) chassis.
F-Type was supposed to be a 911 competitor but it’s about 500lbs too heavy to do so. The chassis is also at its limits with power with the V6S, whereas the 911 can accommodate 500, 600, 650 HP no problem. F-Type looks good but def a weight fail.
My guess is this ‘bespoke’ aluminum platform is actually meant for a small sedan (XE), crossover (X?), and perhaps another model (maybe the XF’s replacement), so it’s slightly (or a lot) over-engineered for a small coupe like the F-type.
I mean my Z is the same story, at a much lower price point, and it is still a lot lighter than the F-Type.
…i’m pretty sure all the modern jaguar and aston martin sportcars are descended from lotus’ VVA extruded-aluminum chassis, which despite its flyweight elise forebear also gave us the three-thousand-pound big-boned evora…for some reason, all these lotus-chassis GTs have come to the curb extremely heavy: maybe it’s the redundant metal bodywork?..
Pretty car. I hope they did not let South Africans drive it… Salt pan, powerful car… Jaguar will get the car back when the wheels come off because “Give it horns, Boet!”