Morning All

I’ve been lurking here for a few weeks now & decided it was time to introduce myself. I’ve just bought a 2014 F-Type manual here in the UK...Hopefully I’ve managed to attach some photos...

 

Great photos, and a beautiful F-Type (but, without diminishing the lustre of this one, all F-Types are beautiful). Welcome! Now, practice controlling your inner hooligan which this car will release. It has partially worked for me (the attempt to control it, I mean).

 

Welcome, welcome

 

Welcome! 🤗
Beautiful car and great job on the pictures!

Dave

 

Congratulations on your acquisition and what will prove to be the new love of your life! Enjoy.

 

Welcome! How is it you have a 2014 with a manual transmission?

 

Gorgeous car, but it isn't 2014. It is 2016 or 2017.

 

Sure looks like a 2014 to me.

 

Even under the European MY designations, the MT was not available until MY15, and memory card sockets in the center console even much later.

 

Look at the dash, it has round ( ./ )

 

It absolutely is nòt a 2014 nor 2015, and possibly not even a 2016...the clue is the display between the two main gauges. The earlier cars had the readings displayed vertically in straight lines, not as parenthetical curves. perhaps the original poster could comment...was it just a keyboard slip - or is there a reason why he thinks the car is a 2014 model? (Curious, not accusing...)

 

Yep, definitely not a 2014 or 2015, it's at least a 2016.

 

Elementary my dear Watson; Interesting, as I was having the same thoughts...according to Jag UK Manuals were added to their website latter part of 2014:

2016 JAGUAR F-TYPE: INTRODUCING ALL-WHEEL DRIVE AND MANUAL TRANSMISSION

19 NOVEMBER 2014
The F-TYPE, Jaguar’s all-aluminium sports car, will in 2015 set new standards for dynamics and driver involvement.

The gauges tell me it's a 2015 model (16MY in the UK), license plate tally's up, with an early (Jan, Feb or March '15).
Interestingly, the license plate doesn't reveal the VIN from internet sources which is odd....still, my deductions are that it's definitely a 2015 (16MY) car.
Anyhow, welcome to the fold AJB2! ;-)

 

Well, this sort of statement ("a 2015 model [2016MY in the UK]") is what utterly confuses people in North America (and probably elsewhere) because the car is clearly a 2016 model year car - that was the year for which that form of instrument display was introduced: 2016. The car well have been built in the 2015 CALENDAR year, but it is not a "2015 model" - it is a 2016 model!... and then there is the UK system of identifying cars as "M reg", "P reg" (yes, I know that these are fictictious....I just chose a letter) because this makes no sense at all to so many of us.
My car, built in late 2014 as a 2015 Canadian-market model, is therefore (logically) registered as a 2015 model, put into service and first registered (as a 2015 model) in December 2014.
Really, between the Brexit fiasco and the automobile model year registration system...crazy-making, eccentric and wonderfully British.

 

Hey Guys...Thanks for all the comments. It was actually registered on 18th September 2014 & according to the Topix report, is a 2016 M/Y. It must’ve been one of the very first manuals built, it was actually originally registered with the DVLA as a 340bhp auto??? I would love to find out what it was used for when first built...BTW. I bought it from an approved Jaguar dealership with a 2 year approved Jaguar warranty so there’s nothing “dodgy about it...Just unusual. Done a little over 20,000 miles & the clutch slipped on Friday causing it to still smell in the cabin today!!!

 

Please provide us with the first 2 digits of the last 5 digits of the VIN. There may be a Story here on the production history of MT F-Types.

 

Sounds like a rather interesting car...

@AJB2 Maybe Jaguars' OSH may be able to shed more light on where it's been and from. https://osh.jaguar.com/

Hoping not to see the word Copart in there! ;-)

 

I based my assessment on the reg: it looks like it has "64" which shows it was registered between September 2014 and March 2015. I guessed you couldn't register a car before it was built, although you can put a personal plate on that shows as an older registration year. MY is a whole different kettle of fish, of course.

 

To my knowledge, at least as the information was release in the US market, they stopped production of the 2015 model year in December 2014, and did not start production on the 2016 model year until February 2015.
sov211 is absolutely correct, the instrument display is that from a 2016 or later model year, so something seems out of place if this vehicle with a 2016 model year instrument cluster has been represented to be registered months before production started on that model year. Either the instrument display was replaced (not sure that's technically compatible), or the model year has not been correctly represented.

 

Or it was a pre-production car that was updated to a later spec?