{"id":18289,"date":"2016-03-24T15:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=18289"},"modified":"2016-03-25T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:11:24","slug":"f-type-svr-pride-of-big-jaguar-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/f-type-svr-pride-of-big-jaguar-litter","title":{"rendered":"F-Type SVR pride of big Jaguar litter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Jaguar hit the New York auto show with a roar this week as the resurgent brand unveiled its halo supercar F-Type SVR \u2013 the pride of its U.S. litter. With five vehicles in the market for the first time, Jaguar is a formidable force in an increasingly crowded market that includes new entries from Alfa Romeo and Genesis.<\/p>\n

A product of Jaguar\u2019s Special Vehicle Operations \u201cskunk works\u201d team outside Coventry, England, the SVR is the ultimate realization of Jaguar\u2019s F-Type sports car. Bristling with carbon fiber, 16-inch front brake rotors, a rear wing and a snarling 575-horsepower V-8, the big cat can hit 200 mph and go zero-60 in just 3.5 seconds.<\/p>\n

Equipped with snow-shredding all-wheel drive, Jaguar bills the F-Type as its \u201c200 mph, all-weather supercar.\u201d That is, if owners want to get this $125,000 beauty caked in salt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wind tunnel tells is how this car should be shaped,\u201d says designer Ian Callum, pointing out the car\u2019s added side vents and rear wing for downforce. \u201cThis car is about physics.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also about setting the tone for a luxury lineup that extend the brand\u2019s sporty lineage into sedans and crossovers.<\/p>\n

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The New York Show is as much about the F-Pace \u2014 Jaguar\u2019s new crossover \u2014 as it is about F-Type. Jaguar\u2019s first-ever crossover joins the F-Type and a full sedan lineup of XE, XF and XJ. Like other sports car manufacturers, Jaguar is following Porsche into the SUV segment and its outsized profit margins \u2014 not to mention outside customer demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world told us we had to do it,\u201d Callum said.<\/p>\n

Significantly, though, Jaguar has chosen not to compete against Porsche or Maserati, which ask premium, $70,000-plus stickers for their Cayenne and Lavante \u201csports car utility vehicles.\u201d Jaguar is determined to take its sporty brand and compete head-to-head against traditional, volume luxury manufacturers like BMW, Mercedes and Audi. So it has priced the F-Pace starting at $40,000, the same as an Audi Q5 and well below a BMW M5. And it has given the F-Pace best-in-class rear legroom, trunk space and width.<\/p>\n

Then Callum packaged it all in a shell meant to echo the $125,000 F-Type SVR. \u201cI want a lot of F-Type in it,\u201d says the English designer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will be the best-selling Jaguar ever,\u201d he says, just as sales for Porsche Cayenne and Macan SUVs have outstripped any sports car the legendary maker has ever made.<\/p>\n

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New York\u00a0\u2013 Jaguar hit the New York auto show with a roar this week as the resurgent brand unveiled its halo supercar F-Type SVR \u2013 the pride of its U.S. litter. With five vehicles in the market for the first time, Jaguar is a formidable force in an increasingly crowded market that includes new entries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18290,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289\/revisions\/18290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}