Browse our inventory at Jaguar Los Angeles to find a new Jaguar F-TYPE for sale near Bel Air, then explore Jaguar F-TYPE performance in person when you visit your local authorized Jaguar retailer. The light graphic accentuates the car’s visual width and hints at its peak performance potential. Inside, the large arch surrounds the area in front of the driver’s seat, lending the cabin the feel of a racing car’s cockpit. Evolved from its predecessor’s World Car Design-winning form, the breathtaking looks of the new Jaguar F-Type are enhanced by the super-slim Pixel LED headlights which enhance the car’s qualities. Both Jaguar and Land Rover have evolved to a modern British interpretation of British luxury-but what if the rest of the car world wants something more exuberant, like a Bentley? The $40,895 Jag XE and the more pricey all-wheel-drive and R-Dynamic versions unite behind one powertrain this year. Where the Jag XE falls behind cars like the 3-Series is in presentation. Jag has polished the XE cockpit this year with better materials and with new digital displays for the gauges and for the entertainment and climate control systems but the paucity of wood trim and richly textured materials (even the Velar鈥檚 woolly seats) counts as a miss.
On the inside, illuminated Jaguar treadplates, Meridian Audio, Ebony Suedecloth headlining and R-Dynamic Taurus Sport seats in Ebony, Cloud or Deep Garnet all help to set the 300 SPORT apart. Along with the digital displays, the XE sports available features such as a wireless smartphone charging pad, a rear camera mirror, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, 825 watts of Meridian audio, and programmable drive modes. We flew to France for a spin through petite grands canyon and for a first drive of the 2020 XE, for an inkling into whether turbo-4 engines, a refreshed look, and already smart ride and handling give it any chance at chasing front-runner status in Jag鈥檚 own SUV and sedan stable. The F-Type is a front-engine, rear- or all-wheel drive 2-passenger coupe and convertible. P250 XEs have rear-wheel drive, but all-wheel drive鈥檚 an option-and it鈥檚 standard on the P300 car. The R-Dynamic package鈥檚 required on P300 cars, but it鈥檚 mostly a dark-trim kit with snug-fitting sport seats as its main draw along with the extra horsepower. Additionally, the rear seats are easy to fold flat, so you can use every inch of your available cargo space. With Future Type鈥檚 interface you can separately access your different digital orbits of work, family or play, dialling up what you do need, and dialling down what you don鈥檛.
Jaguar鈥檚 tried to boost the profile of its sedan family with carefully executed doses of tradition. We鈥檝e said it in so many ways, but it bears repeating: The sport sedan is in full wane. In Sport mode there鈥檚 more centering weight, but it doesn鈥檛 dive into hefty overprogrammed muck like some racks. Paddles back up the stick controller on P300 cars and on P250s as an option; the transmission lever flips into a Sport mode that holds gears near redline or remaps itself in driver-selectable modes from Comfort to Eco to Rain/Snow/Ice to Dynamic, where we set it and forgot it for most of the late afternoon hustle. Either one spins fairly freely toward redline without much strain, but P250 cars can reach 60 mph in 6.2 seconds, while P300 cars and their standard all-wheel-drive hardware hit the same mark in 5.4 seconds. Whichever model customers choose, whether is the F-Type, F-type R-Dynamic or F-Type R, one thing is sure, Jaguar maintains its assertiveness with Jaguar’s Signature J daytime running lights that features a calligraphy graphic: slim along the horizontal element of the light guide, and then widening as it sweeps upwards – as if a stroke from an art brush.
The 2020 treatment means the F-Type R (that鈥檚 the loud, angry V8 one) gets retuned suspension, inspired by the SVR mega-nutter F-Type. The 2020 XE still lurks in the middle of its pack, a breakout for a few distinct reasons, a follower in others, a sedan still waiting for gravity to shift in its favor. It鈥檚 an odd world in which the Jaguar sedan mimics its more sternly drawn rivals, but that鈥檚 where we are: This generation of Jags has abandoned old-school glamour for something far more common. What to make then of the pert and lively 2020 Jaguar XE sedan? The 2020 XE shifts its 8-speed automatic with crisp attention through a new lever, which replaces the rotary dial on previous models. Technology, at least, goes into overdrive in the 2020 XE. The XE鈥檚 never had a real, widely available competitor for sport-package 3-Series cars (or the M3 for that matter), and it shows in the resilience and lean still allowed by its independent suspension and by its available adaptive dampers. A minor retune on the XE鈥檚 suspension hasn鈥檛 sullied its swell ride either. That electric power steering feel hasn鈥檛 diminished a bit; without a couple hundred pounds of V-6 on the nose, the turbo-4 XE鈥檚 responses have been sharpened, even with its 18-inch wheels.