New video, V6 F Type review

 

Truly "unbecoming" of a video... It's almost 2026​​and he remains the only YouTuber who still refuses to give the F-type V6 the credit that it deserves and continues to spread rumours about it. 😒

 

Yeah that is kind of the way he is. He is pretty critical of a lot of cars, not a very gushy type guy. I do enjoy his videos for that though. I watched it, what kinds of rumors is he spreading? I didn't pick up on anything non-factual but maybe missed some of it - he does have plenty of opinion though

 

I stopped watching JayEmmonCars quite some time ago. Biased (aren't we all?) but often misinformed and inaccurate.

 

The only point of this video is content for his channel. These are some of the best sounding v6 sports cars ever. That has to count for something. He doesn’t like it because it was created from the v8 block. Who cares??!? Why not look at the end result, rather than get hung up on it being derived from the v8 in the way it is? Kinda of a weird thing to get hung up on if you ask me, but hey, he can have his thoughts just like anyone else I guess.

 

I do agree with JayEmm's contention that a naturally aspirated AJ133 5.0L would have been a better choice than the AJ126 3.0L.

 

The ONLY reason why JLR scrapped the AJ133 NA and replaced it with the AJ126 in 2012 (in all but the XK where it soldiered on until the death of the XK in 2015) was gummint mandated fuel economy and eeeevil CO2 "emissions" regulations, such as CAFE and Euro 5. The 6 had slightly "better" figures than the 8 so bye bye AJ133 NA.

 

New video on a discontinued car? Nope. Why should I bother (and generate ad revenue for him)?

 

He is an unwatchable clickbait nonsense. His formula is to always take anti-mainstream position to create controversy and clicks. Then you give you half hour of fluff for about 1 min of actual info. Unbearable.

 

He’s a character that guy. His videos are definitely hit and miss with me, but I will take them in from time to time.

 

Apparently he praised the same engine in the XE.

 

Each to their own and I like a lot of his content but that guy weirdly enough never got the F-Type although he claims that he started liking it.

I just have to quote a V8 F-Type owner from another forum who totally nails what this engine is about:

"The V8 is like a muscle-car, sure, but also an elephant of an engine. Huge and slow-revving. The V6 was recognized as more rewarding when revving it. It has higher compression as a factor to it. It's not only a cut V8 but a greatly different character. I really believe with less power and a more rev-happiness, the F-Type feels more like a "sports car" that's alive in higher rev ranges rather than the V8 monster that just pulls like a train at any RPM. Maybe the V6's inherent design is lazy, but who cares? Saves costs and unifies packaging in the cars. The only real compromise admitted by the team around the F-Type is that the back cylinders were cut, not the front ones, which would have contributed to better weight distribution. The Alfa Romeo Giulia QV was so hyped for its "Ferrari" twinturbo-V6 at 90deg bank angle. Sure it had power and shares Ferrari part numbers, but what else? It sounds downright bad and comes with all flaws turbocharged engines have, including turbo-lag and non-linear throttle response. And still this engine holds the title as the engine which revived Alfisti around the world The Jaguar V6 has so much greatness to it - the right kind of compressor, awesome sound (no idea how they managed that at 90° bank angle) and it really shines in the F-Type."

And that's why a V6S or 400, especially in RWD form, is the quintessential F-Type in my book.

 

Actually, if it were possible to mute the narrator’s voice and leave the sound of the Jaguar, that alone would disprove most of his anti-V6 claims. The V6 especially in the 380 version is superb and it can get you into trouble very, very fast.

 

Yeah, and if he drove it properly. Then it would be more like this... an RWD 400 properly driven.

 

Don't let this guy get a rise out of you, it's his thing to be complain-y Some people go for the V8's for certain reasons, other folks go for the V6 for other reasons. This is an age-old debate that I never really understood with these cars. I've driven both and they just have different personalities despite being virtually the same car, pretty neat actually. I didn't even know the V6 had a higher compression ratio than the V8!

 

Agreed. Different compression ratio, different bore and stroke, different supercharger, shorter gearing, mechanical LSD instead of e-diff in the RWD S/400... different beasts for different tastes for sure.

 

I had the NA 5.0 in an XF (which relaced a 4.2 XF I'd had for about 5 years). The 5.0 sounded awful and wasnt particularly quick or fun, I only kept the car for a year as it did nothing for me, I moved on to the XKR which was 5 times more fun with the addition of the supercharger, and sounded heaps better too. Personally I much prefer the v6S to the NA 5.0, although for sound I much, much preferred the 4.2SC (or NA, though that wasnt very powerful).

 

This pompous windbag also received a lot of sensible pushback from P300 F-Type owners when he dissed that model. Somehow, he asserted, it was just wrong that Jag should have a Cayman/Boxster competitor in the F-Type stable of model options.

Soon after that hit-job, he praised a similarly sporty GT from a different maker even though it had a good deal less grunt and panache than the P300. He's quite inconsistent in his biases.