VIDEO: What Makes The Jaguar F-Type The "F"

Perhaps I am thinking too hard here but I could have swore that there is a saying that Kevin Smith passed along to us from Prince: "...you gotta know who your father is..." It didn't make much sense at the time, but now we can apply it to this all-new video put together by our friends across the pond at XCAR.

The auto cinemaphiles put together this slick clip looking back at Jaguar's rich history of two-door roadsters from yore. The best part? They actually drive the damn things. And if any of you have been keeping an eye on the value of D-Type Jaguars, you'd know they don't go for a bargain these days.

That said, XCAR starts at the beginning with the not often heard about C-Type. As you'd expect it progresses to the D-Type, which is best known for how it did in motorsport. Of course next is the very well-known E-Type that helped inject sex into the brand. As you'd expect, the clip wraps up with the all-new F-Type.

Though we're hard pressed to think that the F-Type will be able to shake a stick at the likes of the D-Type or E-Type that birthed it, we do think it's a helluva product.

**Check out XCAR's video below!


The Jaguar F-Type might be the new kid on the block but it comes from a long line of legends. We take a look back to where it all began and track the history of these legendary cars. The C-type, D-type, E-Type and F-Type, all together, on track.

MattDarringer - 7/24/2014 5:08:13 PM

+1 Boost

One has to wonder what Jaguar's fate would have been had an "on-game" F Type arrived in 1971 to replace the E and then at 10 year intervals...

It really is unfortunate that someone didn't buy Jaguar to keep it from being swallowed up into the mess of British Leyland. It does not seem to have fully recovered from than ignominy.

The F Type is Jaguar's only current product done right. I'll ignore the asinine pricing. The crossover cannot come fast enough. A G Type coupe and roadster at $40K base would be brilliant. It really is unfortunate that bumbling Fiat has dibs on the Miata because a Jaguar based on the Miata with some decent power under the hood and gotta have styling like the F Type would sell.