We say: First Jag to get the SVO treatment dials down the muscle-car madness to go Faster
The F-Type SVR is all about big numbers. It’ll do 320kph. It has a power output of 567bhp. It has the option of 398mm diameter carbon-ceramic discs and a carbon-fibre roof, which together lop 50kg off its weight. There’s a new aero set-up at the front, a rear venturi configured to house a trick new exhaust, and an enormous rear wing. The SVR is louder, shoutier, and costlier. It’s… more, of everything, and this on a car that was hardly backwards about coming forwards in the first place.
Yet the more you drive it, the more you realise that doing everything in CAPITAL LETTERS is not the SVO way. We were mightily impressed by the work JLR’s in-house specialists did on the Range Rover Sport, and they’ve performed similar magic on the F-Type.
One word: subtle. Not the one that comes to mind when the SVR’s V8 echoes across another tract of Spanish farmland, admittedly. Or you wrap your eyes around the orange colour scheme and spot all the carbon addenda. The supercharged 5.0-litre V8 borrows its calibration from the limited-run Project 7, and benefits from a lightweight titanium and Inconel exhaust system, so it’s hardly stashing its light behind a bushel, either.
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