Jaguar F-Type R Coupe: This Beast Eats Up the Road - TIME
” a friend asked when I told him I’d taken a Jaguar F-Type R coupe out on a race track. The answer is that I’m not quite certain, because when the speedometer goes north of 100 miles per hour, the last thing you should be doing is looking at it, especially with a sharp left turn coming up. What’s more interesting about the F-Type R... This works very nicely on a race course, of course — as it did at the Monticello Motor Club, a track where we tested the car, about 100 miles northwest of New York City. Put the car in launch mode — from dead stop to heart stop, from 0 to 60 mph in four seconds. The newest Corvette is actually faster, but the Jag has a top speed of 186 mph, in case you’re trying to make a flight. You can chose a V-6 coupe with a 340-hp engine beginning at $65,000, or the coupe Type S for $77,000 that gets you 380 hp. You probably won’t be needing the $8,000 carbon ceramic brake package that our test Jag had. You will, however, be making use of the rear spoiler that pops up when the car hits 70 mph, (pleasingly observable from the rearview mirror), and then retreats below 50 mph. The F-Type even has a trick in its bag when you’re. Source: time.com
