Jaguar F-type 2.0: Two By Four
Motoring World|October 2018

A 2.0-litre Four Pot In An F-type? What In The World...

Raunak Ajinkya
Jaguar F-type 2.0: Two By Four

What you’re looking at is the undeniably gorgeous Jaguar F-Type with a crucial difference — gone is the shouty (and rather orgasmic, might I add) V8, and so is the V6, something I deemed to be the best of both worlds. This F-Type here comes with a 2.0-litre inline-four. Hurts, right? It does.

Why has Jaguar gone and ripped the F-Type’s soul? You could point the finger at downsizing and its obvious advantages, and let’s face it: the world’s doing it, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise. The good news is that you can very well go into a Jag showroom today and still spec your F-Type with the V6 or the V8 because they’re both still very much on the cards, still. But should you?

I’ll get to that in a bit. For now, what you should know is that the biggest tells that this is a 2.0-litre F-Type is the fact that it gets one massive tailpipe right in the centre instead of multiple pipes. There’s a P300 badge on the rear, it gets rear-wheel drive only and an 8-speed auto is the only configuration you can get it in. Since it’s already lost in excess of 50 kg over the V6, I wonder if Jaguar experimented with a manual gearbox. That would’ve given me the proper chills, it would’ve. But it hasn’t gone down that route, so let’s move on.

This story is from the October 2018 edition of Motoring World.

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