It Looks Like A Four-Cylinder Diesel Jaguar F-Type Is Coming
Whether you buy a V6 or a V8 Jaguar F-Type, you can be sure your ears will be treated to a jolly nice time. However, it’s looking like a less tuneful version of Jaguar’s pretty coupe and cabriolet combo might be on the way: a diesel.
Oh yes: alongside the long-rumoured new entry-level 2.0-litre four-pot Igenium petrol F-Types, it seems Jaguar is also about to introduce the 2.0-litre diesel version from the engine family to the sports car. Spy shots from Autocar captured an oil-burning F-Type test mule with JLR engineering big cheese Mike Cross behind the wheel, and after running the plates on the DVLA database, the publication found that the car is registered as having a 2.0-litre diesel engine.
This could of course amount to nothing - plenty of cars never make it past the testing stage, after all. But if this did happen, what would you think of such a vehicle? Does the idea of a diesel F-Type disgust you, or is the prospect of a torquey little diesel Jaguar roadster/coupe weirdly appealing? Let us know in the comments.
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I’m okay for it to be in the coupe, not the cabrio.
also, #FreeTheCoal
Great! All we need is some unpainted bumpers and steel wheels and we have one of those poverty spec renders
Why not 1.0 three-cylinder diesel with 80bhp and 900mpg?
or a 2 stroke? :D
125cc Diesel with 12 gears so it reaches a top speed of 130km/h
I don’t like the F-type anyway, this gives me a lot of material to work with :D
Depending on how much the UK government decide to penalise diesels depends on the success of this. The diesel a4 convertible was massively popular in the uk so i can see this being popular due to lower running costs.
Yes but the Audi A4 isn’t a sports car
Lets see what Effspot thinks of this one…
Effspot is gonna be pissed…
Weirdly appealing
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