Interesting video from two cars review legends

https://youtu.be/DXCfADxDHrc?si=cZ1HE4CuYMe1CEQT

 

Peak car for JLR is 2018 for all SVR’s and Range Rovers and 2022 for F-Type R

Criteria:

1. Sound/V8 Ford based
2. Physical Buttons
3. Sound Systems
4. Infotainment

 

Nope, Jeremy Clarkson said himself, 2015 baby

 

He’s wrong, I saw his stripped down used one he recently bought

 

Not that it matters, but these engines are NOT ford-based.

 

Ford parts but the point is that they are NON BMW turbos

 

That is not true either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_AJ-V8_engine

 

It's an old tale that just won't die.
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I specifically looked for a 2017 SVR after weighing everything.

 

You can really tell who really owns JLR products versus those who just make random commentary on car sites in between their lunch breaks at school. I need only open the hood on my F-Type R and see the parts marked FoMo (Ford Motor Company) on the engine. But the trolls lives revolve around AI, Wikipedia etc…which is truly sad.😔

 

Whenever the started using 305’s in the rear.

 

And you are trolling, again.

 

You think having a few Ford parts makes the engine a Ford engine? It doesn't occur to you that, at the time the Jaguar engineers designed the engine (clue's there), they had access to the Ford parts bin as the early engines were built in a Jaguar section (with Jaguar employees) of the Ford Bridgend engine works before the work was transferred to Jaguar's own engine build plant in the midlands. But, as you say, the trolls are truly sad. BTW, the FType's predecessor engine (he 4.0 and later 4.2 in the XK8 and XKR) was designed while Jaguar was under Ford ownership, but that was nevertheless still a Jaguar designed engine.

 

I said FORD BASED ENGINE (Ford factory, Ford parts etc) to differentiate it from the newer BMW turbos JLR products have now. Trust, the Ford involvement is good thing seeing that I also have Jag with a FORD block and a Jag top end that will top 150,000 miles this month that I ran myself as the original owner.

 

All the SVRs came with 305s on the rear as they all came with 11" wide wheels. That's not to say you can't put 305 on the 10.5s. Many people do.

Why I wanted a 2017:

The old style, Tie Fighter headlights.
The lockable center stoarage bin on the back wall. This is a huge plus in a convertible.
More inventory from which to choose.
Rumor has it that 17 was the last year of the unappologetic tune and after that, it was not quite as in your face. I was never able to confirm this, though.

I like the blacker tail lights better on the 18s and up and ventilated seats would have been nice.

 

That’s strange because the Project 7 I saw at the dealership had 295’s.

 

The Project 7 and the SVR are different cars. The Project 7s had 10.5s

 

The Project 7 was not an SVR.

 

Wow, okay, well that’s fine. I’m not going to get in an huge argument with you about anything, but you are incorrect (as someone else above has pointed out). It is well established in reality, both on this forum and more generally on the Internet, that this is NOT a Ford engine. So I sincerely have no idea what you are going on about.

It is a Jaguar designed/parted engine that was built at one point in a Ford facility. Perhaps we’re just unnecessarily getting caught up in semantics and we are saying the same thing here, but I don’t think so…

I will just leave it there, other than to say that there’s no reason to be a ding dong about things and start being rude around here. I’m not trolling you or anyone else on here, so I don’t really appreciate your comments. I’m a regular member around here who is trying to make a contribution to this community where I can.

Cheers

 

Do you know WHY so many parts on the AJ133 and AJ126 have FoMoCo markings? Obviously not.
Spoiler alert - I explain below.
It is NOT because those are Ford engines or contain any Ford engine parts, there are no parts on these engines which are interchangeable with any Ford engine except maybe the odd nut or bolt.
Back in 2009 when the AJ133 was designed (by JLR with maybe a little help from Ford engineers seeing as Ford owned JLR from 1998 to 2008), JLR made a deal with Ford to have the engine built in the Ford engine plant at Bridgend (England). On a special production line for only the AJ133 (and later the AJ126 from 2012 onwards).
It made economic sense for both JLR and Ford to use parts made by Ford in/at that engine plant so that's what they did. These parts were specifically and only for the AJ133 and AJ126 and have never been used in any other new engine let alone a Ford engine.
Then in 2020 this deal expired and JLR moved the manufacture of the AJ123 and AJ126 to their new multi-billion $ engine plant at Wolverhampton, but they continued to use parts stamped FoMoCo.