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Jaguar has given its most purposeful pussycat a “hard hat” and created a terrifically racy tomcat coupe

Jaguar says that the styling of its F-Type was inspired by the E-Type of half a century ago. In the video presentation at the F-Type Coupe’s launch in Spain, it even relied on an extremely distended shadow of the E-Type coupe to draw the visual connection between the two.

Unfortunately, the narrow-bodied, sausage-shaped and puny-tyred E-Type never did it for me, looks-wise. Good thing, for my sake, that I don’t think the F-Type Coupe looks anything like the E-Type.

The sexiest-ever Jag backside comes with a hidden “tail” — a spoiler that rises at speed to balance the coupe’s front-rear aerodynamics

The sexiest-ever Jag backside comes with a hidden “tail” — a spoiler that rises at speed to balance the coupe’s front-rear aerodynamics

Like its F-Type Roadster sibling that was launched last year, the Coupe is stubby, squat and purposeful. It is visually identical to the Roadster below the waistline. This means a brooding, feral face with gaping oval grille and aggressive side “whisker” intakes; big wheels and tyres that fill the arches nicely; and real sheet-metal muscle in the crisply defined haunches that drape and flare over the rear wheel arches. On the Coupe, this effect is accentuated by the glasshouse, which in plan view tapers teardrop-style towards the rear.

That glasshouse is, of course, what sets the F-Type Coupe apart from its Roadster sister, and it’s a beautifully executed affair. From side-on, the curve of the roofline flows smoothly from the A-pillar, sweeping down to meet the downswept tail and drawing the eye to those slitty, “concept car” taillamps. That slim, swooping band of metal that defines the roofline is actually a single hydro-formed aluminium alloy beam, which adds significant stiffness to the structure, while at the same time weighing very little.

Two-seat cockpit is well-appointed and driveroriented, with more than double the boot space of the F-Type Roadster

Two-seat cockpit is well-appointed and driveroriented, with more than double the boot space of the F-Type Roadster

On F-Types with the optional panoramic glass roof, the visual drama is heightened by the unbroken sweep of shiny, black glass from front to rear screens, like the canopy of a fighter jet.

Inside, the Coupe is just like the Roadster – except with a fixed roof (trimmed inside in either Alcantara or leather, incidentally). It’s still a strict two-seater, but there’s ample room for the heads and shoulders of those two occupants, although the seats do not extend quite as far back as those significantly over 1.8m in height may like.

The seats themselves are gorgeous items – slim but heavily bolstered and sprouting a pair of “wings” at shoulder height for support, they really wouldn’t look out of place in a racecar. The seating position is low-slung but very natural, with the steering wheel and stubby gearlever falling comfortably to hand. The leather and stitching on the dashboard, door cappings and seats are top-notch, and the whole cabin looks and feels like a very expensive, exquisitely crafted place.

F-Type R Coupe 5.0 On Road

F-Type R Coupe 5.0 On Road

If you’ve seen the letterbox-like, 200-litre boot of the Roadster, the luggage space under the Coupe’s hatch will be a revelation. Relieved of the need to also house a folding roof, the Coupe’s 407-litre boot can take a large suitcase or two sets of golf clubs.

Ditching the soft-top reaps other benefits – the Coupe is 20kg lighter, model-for model, and its body shell is also 80 percent more torsionally rigid at 33,000Nm per degree, making it Jaguar’s stiffest production car ever.

But despite its all - aluminium construction and pert dimensions, the F-Type is still no lightweight – the Coupe weighs between 1577kg and 1665kg, depending on specification and equipment. That’s markedly heavier than the Porsche 911, for instance.

Like the F-Type Roadster, the engine range for the Coupe consists of two 3-litre supercharged V6 models (same engine in different states of tune) and a 5-litre supercharged V8. The two V6 models (called “V6” and “V6 S” respectively) are mechanically identical to their Roadster counterparts, which means the “lesser” one delivers a still-impressive 340bhp while the full-fat model boasts 380bhp.

But both pale in comparison next to the whopping 550bhp figure of the V8, which itself has 50bhp more than the V8 S Roadster can muster from the same motor.

 
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