Jaguar F-Type R Coupe Keeps Tail Hanging Out in New Review

With the promise of much improved overall body stiffness over the convertible, the new Jaguar F-Type Coupe is so far shaping up to be a much more incisive track machine. Engineers say it’s 80 percent stiffer, and all the impressions we’ve heard of it so far do seem to confirm that this has had the desired effect on the car’s character and handling. 

Chris Harris Slithers About on Wet Track in Jaguar XKR-S GT

The Jaguar XKR-S GT does not have a single horsepower over the regular XKR-S. Its straight line performance figures are better, though, as are its cornering characteristics, so Chris Harris has had a go in one to tell us how usefully the extra cash you’re forced to shell out has been spent, and if the upgrades work.

Not that it really matters, frankly, because only 30 will be made for the US and Canada, while an additional 10 right-hand drive examples will be delivered to UK buyers – that’s all!

Harris’ first impression of the car around a very slippery wet track is that its steering is much more precise, benefitting from the use of an F-Type-sourced steering rack.  After the conditions turn drier, he has another go at the wheel of the GT, this time really pushing it much harder, and relishing in the experience.

He ends up calling it “a complete weapon” in the dry! Check out the video after the virtual jump, below, to see why exactly it was that he ended up thinking that.

By Andrei Nedelea

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This AWD XJ Went Where No Jag Has Gone Before

As winter gets closer in the Northern Hemisphere, an all-wheel drive car may not seem such a bad idea for those regions where snow and ice are a constant presence during the cold months.

By introducing an all-wheel drive system on its XF and XJ luxury sedans, Jaguar has managed to appeal to customers in those areas where an all-wheel drive car is, if not a must, something certainly welcome.

However, I can’t imagine how a car can still function at temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius. My lack of technical background surely has something to do with it, but I find it highly remarkable that a posh Jaguar XJ can get to the Arctic Circle without no problems. It’s good to know your car can do that.

I have to say this is my favorite type of promotional video: it is a mix of very little to none PR talk (as the images speak louder than words regarding the capabilities of the XJ’s AWD system), and interesting facts – in this case about the remote Yukon region of Canada and life in the coldest town on earth.

By Dan Mihalascu

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Care to Hear a Jaguar F-Type Coupe and See an F-Type Roadster do a Quick Burnout?

Jaguar has a good thing going on with its F-Type series that is currently available exclusively as a roadster, and it will get a whole lot better next year when it adds the coupe model, which in many peoples' view, will be the one to get.

In a recent video shot outside the Nürburgring, YouTube author 'swsthebest1994' had the opportunity to film Jaguar engineers in a camouflaged 2015 F-Type Coupe prototype revving its V6 engine (the V8 has quad pipes instead of the two central exhausts).

We don't know if the British firm's engineers were also in the green F-Type Roadster that was following the Coupe tester (what do you think?), but they sure put a smoky show when they left…

Turn up the volume on your speakers and enjoy the video below.

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Drive Goes Inside Jaguar’s Nürburgring Test Facility, Samples the XKR-S

Maybe some of you are thinking, “oh, it's just another Nürburgring video where a lucky chap is having a blast driving a powerful car”. Bear with us, though, because it's much more than that.
In fact, it’s a look at the inside workings of a car maker's dedicated Nordschleife test center. Jaguar has been visiting the 13-mile-long track for more than two decades and it was one of the first manufacturers to set up shop there, just outside the track’s northern loop, in 2003.