Gents,

Hope all is well.

I am thinking of trading in my V8S convertible for V6S Coupe or getting another V8S with more equipment. I think the coupe looks better but I do not want to lose power. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

 

why not a V8 coupe? unless it's a money issue, but trading in your v8 convertible is going to be a big hit already...

 

Go have a look at some, and drive them. If you want to make the switch & the numbers workout for you, go for it!

 

Life is short. Buy what you want.

 

I have driven a V6S, a V8S, and own an R coupe. If you like the power of the V8S, you will likely want another or an R coupe.

I could tell a big difference in the power of the V6 versus both of the V8 engines.

 

Test drive the V6S after driving to the dealer in your V8S. If you are using the V8 to its fullest, you may not want the V6. Otherwise, the V6 might be the way to go. If you just need the cache, you can just attach the R badges and save a boat load of money. Only the enlightened will notice you are missing a couple of tail pipes.

 

Definitely drive all of them first. Compared to the V8S the Coupe is almost silent. More quiet than when you put your roof up. If that is important to you. I know it is for me and I spent an awful lot of time and visits to the exhaust shop to get my XKR-S coup to sound the way I want inside the car.

Drive them all and buy what makes you feel better, the rest is negligible.

 

The Type R at the dealer has 700 miles plus it is Salsa Red. I think only a Ferrari should be red

 

I think I have averaged 22 mph for most of the cars history

 

You might then get just as much fun out of the V6 as you did out of the V8.

 

I get 18 mpg with my V6S. Keep it loud.

 

non sequitur

 

Unless you are just standing in traffic I cannot even compute 22mph average .... a Camry will do that very comfortably ... and if you are not driving much why would you need to upgrade anything? A barebone V8S has more options already included than a 6 coupe, the 6 would have to be very well equiped to have more to offer.

 

If you switch from a cabrio to a coupe you will notice 2 things:
1) Less sound in the cabin
2) Less engaging experience - having owned convertibles I find them to be more fun at all speeds than coupe.

This said if you don't want a convertible then you should go for the coupe. Having owned 4 convertibles, I am over the genre. I just don't like the wind and found myself driving it with top up. At that point the coupe is better because it is more spacious, has glass roof, feels more solid.

But if you like the V8 experience then you want the R Coupe. Buy a used one. The used ones are good value.

 

I ended up trading in for another V8S as the V8 sound reminds of old f1 cars (not the current V6 which sound like a vacuum cleaner) and I love the flat bottom steering and performance package which allows you to change car settings. Although I did notice 2015 was less harsh, more trigger happy and they removed manual transmission mode (available only in Sport mode).

 

There is a setting for allowing paddle shifting in either sport only or sport plus drive in the 2014. I would doubt they removed the option for later cars. Maybe the one you drive was just configured to not allow paddle shifting in drive.

What do you mean more trigger happy?

 

Nice. My 2015 R has a setting to allow paddle shifting in D. It can be found in the menu in the instrument cluster.

 

All F-Type models do, including the base, and you're right that it's in the instrument cluster menu.

 

Have you considered having your hearing checked?

 

I think (hope) he was referring to the V6 in the new F1 cars sounding like a vacuum cleaner, not the V6 in our cars.