There's been so much talk about the "facelift" for 2020 or maybe it's 2021.
But every single freaking year they've changed things, from lights, side skirts, gills, etc.

What, praytell, are the actual changes/facelift features that make people talk like this is a brand new vehicle or a total refresh?

 

One change could be replacing the lovely Jaguar V8 for a BMW 4.4 V8 turbo.

 

The previous facelifts have really not been much of a change. This facelift will have different taillights and completely new headlights that are horizontal instead of vertical. And they also say the interior will be more like the XE, more electronics and no analog speedometer. However the shape of the car will be absolutely identical.

 

Sounds more like a bowel resection than a facelift.

 

Cheers. We have the new XE and as much as I like it, the interior of the F Type doesnt need to be changed for it. I get from one car to the other and think the quality is about the same, the incontrol touch duo system looks much better in the XE which previously had heaps of little buttons down the bottom of the centre stack, but the F Type doesnt as it has the switches and big dials anyway, so really it isnt fixing anything there. So to take the XE dash and centre stack and whack it into the F Type is really (to borrow a phrase) answering a question that no-one was asking.

From watching the camo'd cars in their testing videos I'm relatively positive about the external changes as I quite like the headlight design of the new vantage despite a lot of other people thinking it looks miata-ish. I'm also the one person on the forum who likes the bassy engine note from those clips, though I'd want it to be present at all speeds and not just when the car is being pounded.

 

VIDEO: Does this Jaguar F-Type have a BMW V8 under its hood?
https://www.bmwblog.com/2019/08/12/v...nder-its-hood/

 

Yep, I reckon it does.
And it even has the steering wheel on the correct side!
I'm guessing the Beemer lump weighs a lot less than the existing V8 so balance and handling should be improved.

 

I came here to post that.



The sound is gone...

First thing to my mind: It's that same let-down feeling that you get when you select the title of a classic song on a playlist, only to be met by a thin-sounding cover by a lesser performer (surely well-intentioned, but underqualified).

 

I do not disagree. And I 100% totally concur with the overall point, this is a major, major shift in the vehicle.
However, they all sound different. They're trying to get a wider market and more demographics with this single vehicle, and I assume most consumers are buying their model based on pricing? I didn't... because after coming from a 4cyl '95 Wrangler, i assumed an 8cyl F-Type would be my early death, and I didn't really want to afford it. I could pay for the base model and be done with it, but I discovered afterwards, the difference between the base exhaust note and the "S" is surreal. Personal opinion I mean ZERO offense but I am deeply not a fan of the "S" exhaust note. The R tuned has a sound that would get me arrested in my sleepy burb. The 4 has got to have a different sound, right? Anyhoo... it's irrelevant other than I belabored my random thoughts. I kept coming back to that fact.. they all sound different.

But now back to your defense, this is the straight six, right? I would be fascinated to think about exhaust note trade off vs what it feel to drive that vs our engine.

 

Could it be a 3.0 straight 6, with quad exhaust to get a V8 sound? I would like. I remember someone said that the electric turbo efficency could get power near 500 hp from a 3.0

 

 

That's not quite how it works unfortunately, changing the exhaust to a V8 quad won't make a V6 sound like a V8.. But that car is definitely a V8!

 

Good news for existing F-type owners, our cars will be thought-after.

Good luck keeping that BMW V8 running, don't forget to ask salesperson to throw in free rod bearings change when you buy one.

They should have supercharged I6 they were working on instead.

 

It might be just the camo but there is something odd going on with the bonnet of that car. I'd be disappointed if the Jag central "power bulge" left the styling even if it was replaced by two.

 

I reckon it's just the slightly dodgy render showing a "de-power recess" so don't fret too much!

 

I hope you are right, but I looked at some of the camo shots and there is a distinctly BMW look about the bonnet...

 

 

Anyone thinks this new front looks a lot like Mustang?

 

Yea no plans to sell mine. The original design will be recalled as the best version, just like the MKI E-Type. Wait and see

 

Looks like an F-Type squinting to read the fine print.