Yep, fully agree on that there's way too much focus on stuff like ring lap times in the car world. What matters to me too is how the F-Type behaves on public roads. Listening to the reviewer's comparison to the AMG GT there's a lot of stuff that the Merc and other cars do better than the F-Type also on public roads but the F-Type obviously makes up for it with its other qualities. It's just interesting to see the different perceptions of whatever a sports car is. I get the impression that there's a stronger tendency in the US to call anything with a fastback body and the capability of going pretty fast in a straight line a sports car, while other parts of the world with a stronger tradition of building sharp handling cars have a different view on what a sports car is. I personally consider the F-Type as a sporty GT. Whatever we call the F-Type it's definitely an insanely good public road car.

I guess one reason to the perception of the F-Type being luxurious is that it's a Jag and Jaguar's heritage of luxury. Then it also depends a lot on the spec and options. My F-Type is more luxurious than any XK I've sat in or driven. As opposed to the XK though, there are also F-Types out there which definitely aren't luxurious because you could order them without any options and with a really basic spec. I've seen some pretty weird examples on the UK market without even the most basic tech and never understood how someone could spend so much money on a new F-Type but skip things like parking sensors or a decent interior.

 

How did you find out that there was splicing involved? The description for the more expensive one also says plug and play. Were you able to talk to someone at the company or someone that installed the more expensive one? Sorry for the questions but I think I'll wait on your install and review. Good luck 🤞

 

That’s exactly it. I was in direct contact with support at ASR asking questions about their product in the context of the GPF management issues discussed in that PSA fuse 15 thread.

Once I was happy with that end of things, and was convinced that their product would deliver the goods and not prevent GPF cycles from running, I then asked for some install documents. The install document showed the splicing for that more expensive unit (the one I was originally looking at), and I confirmed it with them. I too was not expecting that given the plug and play claim on the website.

Then somehow I got onto the fact they had the cheaper dongle-based unit that I ended up going with. He confirmed that this cheaper one was truly plug and play, and visie on the forum has since further confirmed that after installing it already.

The splicing for the more expensive one I guess is needed in order to integrate fully with the switchgear around the gearshift, do the auto start/stop memory stuff etc…

 

Emotion?🤣 ok… The team that designed the F-type says it is Jaguar’s first Sports car sooo…I’m gonna go with that.😂 🎉🍾

 

Thank you for the explanation. Looking forward to your review.