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AUTOS: Jaguar Readies F-Type Sports Car
Roadster based on the C-X16 concept car will go on sale in mid-2013 with coupe coming later.
Jaguar released teaser images of its upcoming F-Type sports car. (Photo: Jaguar)
Jaguar used the backdrop of this week’s 2012 New York Auto Show to confirm that its new sports car based on the stunning C-X16 concept will be called the F-Type when it goes on sale in mid 2013.
The car’s construction will be mostly from aluminum, just like its big brother, the XK, and it will be offered as a convertible initially, though a coupe may arrive further down the track.
It will offer several different engine options, all of them gasoline-fueled and one new to the Jaguar lineup.
That new engine is likely to be a production version of the supercharged 3-liter V6 previewed in the C-X16, which delivers 375 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque and is capable of accelerating the concept from 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds.
Speaking in New York this week, Jaguar brand director Adrian Hallmark ssaid, “We showed the C-X16 concept in September 2011, and the reaction to it has been so positive that we've accelerated our development of an all-new Jaguar sports car.”
Jaguar also revealed that the F-Type’s development schedule moves to final on-road testing, with engineering prototypes now leaving the automaker's Castle Bromwich plant in the UK, the same plant at which the production cars will be built. Very early test mules have already been spotted.
These teaser images of the car confirm that the new F-Type stays true to the lines of the Ian Callum-designed C-X16 concept unveiled last year, right down to the slit tail-lights. We can also see that Jaguar is employing a conventional soft-top roof, which should help keep weight and cost down.
Jaguar’s decision to go with the F-Type name and not “XE” as previously rumored revives a naming practice that hasn’t been used since the demise of the S-Type. Incidentally, the F-Type name was last used on a convertible sports car concept unveiled by Jaguar as far back as the year 2000.
Look out for the unveiling of the F-Type in production guise at a major auto show later this year.
This story originally appeared at Motor Authority.
The car’s construction will be mostly from aluminum, just like its big brother, the XK, and it will be offered as a convertible initially, though a coupe may arrive further down the track.
It will offer several different engine options, all of them gasoline-fueled and one new to the Jaguar lineup.
That new engine is likely to be a production version of the supercharged 3-liter V6 previewed in the C-X16, which delivers 375 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque and is capable of accelerating the concept from 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds.
Speaking in New York this week, Jaguar brand director Adrian Hallmark ssaid, “We showed the C-X16 concept in September 2011, and the reaction to it has been so positive that we've accelerated our development of an all-new Jaguar sports car.”
Jaguar also revealed that the F-Type’s development schedule moves to final on-road testing, with engineering prototypes now leaving the automaker's Castle Bromwich plant in the UK, the same plant at which the production cars will be built. Very early test mules have already been spotted.
These teaser images of the car confirm that the new F-Type stays true to the lines of the Ian Callum-designed C-X16 concept unveiled last year, right down to the slit tail-lights. We can also see that Jaguar is employing a conventional soft-top roof, which should help keep weight and cost down.
Jaguar’s decision to go with the F-Type name and not “XE” as previously rumored revives a naming practice that hasn’t been used since the demise of the S-Type. Incidentally, the F-Type name was last used on a convertible sports car concept unveiled by Jaguar as far back as the year 2000.
Look out for the unveiling of the F-Type in production guise at a major auto show later this year.
This story originally appeared at Motor Authority.
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