I was just watching this old video from Chris Harris on the f-type when I noticed that the front emblem shown here is the old growler. Was this actually put on production cars, or is this a press car oddity?

 

The earlier F-Types had Growlers with a black surround (which I preferred) and the newer F-Types now carry the Growlers with the red surround...

 

Looks the same as our V6's growler...date of manufacture September 2013. So, I guess they DID make it to production.


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Our car

If I sell our F, can I say it is a LIMITED EDITION? LOL Nice tonsils....

 

You guys aren't looking closely enough. There are two different cat faces there. One is the old logo, and one is modern.

 

Maybe not quite enough resolution, but my Growler looks different from yours. (That's your car, yes?)

 

Yeah Dave. Good example. The faces are different. It's not just the black vs red border. I never knew this before.

What's interesting to me is that I had a 2013 XF with the same growler as my 2017 F Type.

 

I noticed this when I went to make wheel caps. At first, I had them made with the old growlers. They didn't match my grill growler, so I had new ones made.

 

Now, you sound like my wife.

Circle the differences please? (The lighting and reflections are much different, and I'm embarrassed to see the water spots on ours... from DRIVING, LOL)

EDIT: I can see the differences in the black VS red in post #5, above...so I'm not hopeless!

 

None of my pictures had enough resolution to really zoom in on the growler, but the face does appear to be different somehow. I suspect I have a better picture at home somewhere. (Car is currently in a barn, under two covers.)

 

I have a 2014 V6S and the front growler has a black outline and looks like the one from the video. The

center caps on the wheels are black outline too.

 

Mine came with black that i changed to red along with wheel caps, delivered Sept. '13

 

I believe the black growler was on all the '14 models. Switched to red for 2015.

 

I have a MY15 made in 2014 and it has the red background.

 

Ditto.

 

here at our Jag-dealer you can get 2 variants:

 

My MY14 also has the old-style with black surround. Did they carry over to the early coupes, or only on the 'verts?

 

I thought whether you got red or black was dependent on paint color, but perhaps all the MY14 are black?

 

I went with the "throwback" wheel cap Growlers that had the detailed gold Growler in the center with a black background and a silver rim. I also had the front Growler emblem custom plated to match the wheel caps...

I had my front Growler emblem face gold plated to match these wheel caps...

 

All MY 2014 cars, regardless of model, have the black surround badge; the 2015 cars (all) had the red badge. And for owners outside of Canada and the US: the fact that a car was built in the 2014 calendar year does not make it a 2014 MY car! Mine is a 2015 model year car, built during late 2014.