We Have a 2017 Jaguar F-TYPE SVR for a Week. Send Us Your Questions About It.



We're expecting some of you to have questions about our time with the 2017 Jaguar F-TYPE SVR. If you do, feel free to ask them.

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Only 1 question. How the hell did you get it for a week? I assume it's free? (OK, 2 questions.)

 

I'm an automotive journalist and media loans in my area are for one week. (Plan B was sending Jaguar a GIANT muffin basket as a bribe. :-P)

 

What a machine! How do the CF brakes feel? Will they let you track the car?

 

Better to ask forgiveness than permission

 

With a base price of $127,940 - probably average of $140k? what justifies a price that high vs say a Vette? The fact that it has 17 more HP than an R and uglier bodywork and a tacky spoiler?

Sorry but when excellent examples of 2015 Rs can be found for $70k or 2016 Rs for $80k, who spends this kind of money for something 'a little better.'

If they would have improved the R, evolved it into the SVR with a mild price increase than maybe I could see it but if you could explain how/why this car is $35k more than a new R that would be informative. As far as being able to hit 200mph - fantastic and useless to the 99.9% of US purchasers.

 

Around town at low speeds, the brakes seem to have an on/off switch. You get to a certain point in the brake pedal's travel, then it feels as if you threw an anchor behind you. My head's bobbed forward quite a few times. I'll have to see how they behave after opening the car up and braking from higher speeds this weekend.

I'll have to check about the policy about tracking it, but the weather down here is supposed to be rainy all weekend, anyway. :-/

 

With the side vent it almost looks like a GTR.

 

Hoe fast does it go?

 

Does it drive as awesome as it looks?!?!

 

Surprised nobody has asked this.

Does the Meridian stereo work well, or does it exhibit the symptoms that many here have?

 

Do you really feel 4.5% difference in power between the SVR and the R?

 

It's really not the power but the refinment as a package. I could never get my XKR to feel this complete no matter what I did.