Here's What The New Four-Cylinder Jaguar F-Type Sounds Like
In case you missed the news earlier this week, Jaguar is indeed putting an F-Type into production with a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-pot under the bonnet.
With 297bhp and a 52kg drop in weight relative to the V6, you won’t be wanting for performance. In fact, to 60mph it’s actually a smidge quicker than the base six-pot. But what about noise? Well, we now have our first chance to hear the Ingenium lump in action.
We get a couple of short bursts of noise in the promotional video above (skip to around the 50sec and 1min 30sec marks if you don’t want to sit through the whole thing). It’s not enough to make a firm judgement, although it certainly sounds like Jaguar’s engineers have worked hard to extract a decent din from the uninspiring cylinder configuration.
What do you think?
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Comments
My Ford Galaxy 2007 is also a 2.0 turbocharged but doesn’t sound that good :((
Sounds a little like an MGB which is arguably the most British 4cyl, so I’m happy I guess
A 4 cylinder F type may sound good a be light but nobody will buy a Jaguar Because of Fuel efficency
anyone else think they made a 4 pot to replace all the V6’s getting stolen?
I wish my daihatsu xenia sounds that good :(
Sounds kinda like a Ford Focus RS…before I get downvoted I think the RS is a good-sounding four-cylinder
If it was closer to $45,000 id consider it
Sounds like all the other boring 2.0 4-cylinder engines. Who in their right mind would buy one of these? Honestly?
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..since its introduction in 2012…
Wait, 2012? The car is 5-years-old now?