Aside from being a dedicated fan and owner of a V6S, I am far from being a Jaguar historian. Can anybody tell me what the "F" in F-Type actually means? It's been bothering me for a couple weeks and google searches have been turning up empty. Help me out here, gentleman.

 

I'd guess it is only because "F" come after "E" in the alphabet, and among Jaguar's most iconic cars are the C-, D-, and E-Types. However, Jaguar has done some strange things with nomenclature (e.g. S-Type), which I don't understand.

 

C type, D type, E type.......... natural progression is F type next.

 

Thats what I was thinking, but as Foosh said, where did the S come from? Seems too random to me. Maybe I'm just overthinking it. Haha.

 

....why are some Jag cars -Types and other not? Why not XF-Type?

Desert Hiker

 

I've come to my own (possibly erroneous) conclusion that it's purely marketing-driven. Since C-, D-, and E-Types are so revered in automotive history, that name gets pulled out of the marketing toolbox from time-to-time to invoke that heritage.

The only Jaguar nomenclature protocol that does make sense is that virtually all Jaguar models have been assigned an official factory model designation beginning with X. The F-Type's is X152.

If you go to the "forums" menu (top left next to home icon on every forum page), click that, and you'll see other categories of Jaguar models under the headings, current, modern, and classics. Virtually all of them have a factory designation of X-something.

 

'Ferkin'

 

I have wondered the same thing. Obviously, the modern S-types were named after the original version built from 1963 to 1968.


The 1963 version was an upscale development of the Jaguar Mark 2, built from 1959-1967. The later versions of of the Mark 2 were called Jaguar 240 and Jaguar 340, depending on engine displacement. Sometimes rightly or wrongly, the Mark 2 was called a Mark II. There was a luxury version built by Daimler called the 2.5 V8.

All the above vehicles were the smaller brother to the full size saloon, the Jaguar Mark X, which is X for 'Ten', not X as in 'XYZ'.

The successor to the Mark X (rebadged Jaguar 420 in the final years of production) was the XJ6. The X in XJ6 is 'X' as in 'XYZ' and not 'X' for ten.

The code name fore the S-type while in development was Utah Mark III.

I think I have that right.

See how simple and logical it is?

 

Ferrari-type jag

 

That must be it!

 

probably stands for "F*** yeah!"

 

Could it be that the C-, D-, E-, F-types are true 2 seat sportcars?

 

The S-Type is a true 5 seat sedan - perhaps it's a typo.......

Desert Hiker

 

I've had the same thought, but again where did S-Type come from? The question for me is why do certain models get the "Type" moniker, when the majority of models have names like XE, XF, XK, XJ, etc?

On the other hand, perhaps there is just is no logic associated with it, and it's just a marketing strategy at the time the decision is made.

 

Also the X-type........