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
Oh look it’s a Ford fiesta for 10 times the price
Sounds ok?!
Yeah. For a 4 banger its quite good.
Still not sure why anyone would buy a four-pot F-Type. It’d be like getting a non-v8 Mustang/Camaro/Challenger/etc.
People do get non V8 Mustangs challengers and camaros
Dam that engine sounds good. But why would you but it you may as well go for the V6 or V8 now all the road tax is the same
Jaguar and the F-Type is like Ford and the Mustang.
Then again, Ford did own Jaguar at one point…
Sounds like a coughing frog
needs more pops and crackles
Why isn’t it supercharged? All Jaguars I can think of that are boosted, are supercharged.
But its slower than a Golf R…
Wow,a RWD car is slower than an AWD car?! What has the world come to….
inb4 these get swapped into miatas, 240’s, and other lightweight rwd cars.