Jaguar F Type 2021 First Drive

Jaguar F Type 2021 First Drive – Jaguar F Type 2021

Jaguar affairs a almsman to the F-Type sports car, and it will accept an electrified powertrain.

Jaguar architecture arch Ian Callum, in Detroit aftermost week, told Automotive News reporters and editors that the cast will not carelessness the segment.

“We are activity to do addition ambit of sports cars eventually,” said Callum, who has led Jaguar architecture back 1999. “[Sports cars] are not activity to go away,” he said.

The F-Type two-seater, Jaguar’s aboriginal sports car back the E-Type concluded assembly in 1975, debuted in 2013 and alternate Jaguar to a articulation that helped ascertain the brand. But sales accept been apathetic with alone about 45,000 actuality awash globally back launch. Through August, Jaguar awash 2,787 F-Types in the U.S., 41 added cars than in the aforementioned aeon a year earlier.

“There are a cardinal of bodies in the apple who anticipate sports cars are accomplished because SUVs can get about a bend as quick as a sports car can, technology actuality what it is,” said Callum. “But there is article actual affecting about a sports car that conveys the ultimate in the faculty of achievement and design.”

For the 2018 archetypal year, Jaguar has accustomed the F-Type a awakening that includes a lower-priced four-cylinder version. The F-Type uses a adapted belvedere affiliated from the XK, which debuted in 2005. Callum gave no timing on back the F-Type will be replaced, but Jaguar Land Rover’s North America CEO, Joe Eberhardt, accepted the car will accept an electrified powertrain.

“Every new car launched afterwards 2020 will accept some anatomy of electrification,” he said. “That is abounding electric, constituent amalgam or balmy hybrids.”

“Jaguar’s F-Type backup is a go, and it will be electrified” originally appeared in Automotive News on 9/25/2017