thomas i'm james
and this is the extra channel
yes where we do extra things like review
in a low budget fashion a jag f-type
which we've never done before this is
the f-type r
at some point in the past both you and i
have driven an f-type yeah a lot of
miles in an f-type yes because this is
now get ready it's eighth model year
remember when the f-type was a new thing
to see on the road pepperidge farm
remembers
um so it's is it possible that it's
starting to show its age now oh my god
where'd the headlights go yeah so
they tried to update it 20 21.
i don't think it's an amber heard level
of [ __ ] the bed but it's i think a lot
of people
it failed for them because it was
arguably one of the most stunning cars
on the road uh it's still got a hell of
a presence like that the rear haunts the
the profile is beautiful yeah like it
was it was it was a mega pint of wine
but now it's just a normal pint of wine
do you know what i mean no that was a
that was a giant have you not been
watching the trial johnny depp amber
heard you just made a reference to it
and you missed my you missed my
did you get it i hope you did
anyway this is not as good looking of a
front end as the old one however
when i see the old one now it looks old
yeah so that makes me annoyed at this
because that and that's what happened
with modern bmws as well is yeah they've
come along they haven't been that pretty
but they have served to make the
previous ones look old so there's two
crimes
yeah so no one wins in this scenario so
this has been through a journey the r
because when it came out in 2015 it was
550 horsepower rear wheel drive only and
then from 2016 onwards it was all-wheel
drive with a rear-wheel drive bias to
make it safe and it put down the power
really well yes and then i think 2022
last year
everything else disappeared they had a
four-cylinder turbocharged by the end
there there yeah they had the manual
they did a lot of them the v6
supercharged now you can only get a v8
and there are two options that well
not including the roadsters there's a
444 horsepower supercharged v8 detuned
rear wheel drive okay and then there's
this which is 575 horsepower all-wheel
drive
i think i would take the rear wheel
drive one we don't know that yeah we
haven't driven it
that's fair
but like rear wheel drive you know
rear-wheel drive is fun but i tell you
what with this amount of power if you
floor it in this and we'll get to it but
okay it gives up the it gives up the
rear quite quickly okay okay um but yeah
it is a hundred and thirty something
thousand aspects starts at about 120
canadian
uh that 120 that's actually not that bad
i can't believe i'm saying that out loud
like for for the performance like the
specialness it puts at the beginning of
like the 911 range it's kind of like
it's
if you want to have a more gentlemanly
english
hellcat you know basically this is a
muscle car it's not it's not really a
hellcat it's just kind of like a
secretory supercharged v8 yeah well does
it make cat noises
uh it does still have the
start stop button that pulses to the
same speed as a jaguar's heartbeat
and i love that about this quite a
specific piece of knowledge there i like
that um so who's gonna drive this
uh
i wouldn't mind but we could do
rock paper scissors okay
we're gonna throw on three yeah yeah one
two three all right what the [ __ ] that's
a
another karate choice you almost swore
on national television
all right back in an f-type the last one
i drove did not have a digital gauge
cluster no that is a big upgrade because
the gauge cluster in these always really
dated the interior right oh this is also
like the new system which yeah so we
have this in the eye face right
it still has
race mode oh the dowels don't go as red
as the other one as
used to all just go ready yeah yeah
dynamic mode no no this is still got so
now the exhaust is on loud it's all yeah
loud and dynamite is always loud right
uh do you want sport suspension
i mean uh transmission yeah why not yeah
so the f-type's good for three and a
half seconds to 60. so it didn't feel
really like torquey off on there i think
that's because you just lit up the rear
end no i think i was in the in
they are so loud this is a zf8 speed why
can't the new m3 and m4 competition
sound that exciting i don't know because
jegs somehow finds a way within their
like fuel economy ratings or whatever to
make these exhausts shout all right
and then on as i decelerate
there should be pops and
pops in bit
james
where's my pops and bangs again i've
given it a few bubbles for you
but i'm no i'm not i don't know no no
f-type f-type should be
gunshots okay so i so it was that i have
a theory as to why it's gone okay you
know how when you grow up and you do
something
like you become good at skating or
something and then your
friend's annoying little brother starts
doing the same thing okay and you're
like
that's no longer cool yeah i think that
hyundai and the end division doing all
the pops and bangs made everything
everyone in the jag boardroom was like
all right cool i guess that's not our
gamba anymore
because they still make
oh
that's just a proper v8 yeah they they
own that upshift oh man that's good so i
know you said you'd rather get the 444
horsepower rear wheel drive but i like i
like the confidence putting the power
down
uh yeah i suppose it's still rear biased
i can still kind of feel the rear
squirreling a bit but it is nice to be
able to know that you're driving so i
won't die when you put your foot down
oh my god
the op shifts are as good as they oh i
love that yeah that is fun these seats
are very comfortable they're very thin
they're very thin yeah yeah very thin
and and the only downside to that is
they're padded in the right spots though
yes but yeah they are not heated seats
so much as they are
yeah
like they're not trying to like before
you get into mangoes yeah so hands on
the seats for a second cold mornings
they just kind of warm up a bit the same
is true for their steering wheel and the
steering wheel when you put the heated
steering wheel on yeah you can't really
see it now but this goes orange oh wow
and so at night
it looks like a maintenance light
in front of you so i don't really like
that but okay
but yeah i mean
the f-type is an interesting car are we
in like our mode right now we're in
dynamics yeah the ride's quite nice
it is out here in the city this is a
harsh car it isn't don't don't think of
it as an lc 500 combating grand tourer
okay it's it's stiff it's a stiff car
but
it's a lot more agile it's cool how's it
steering
yeah
yeah it's there it's light is it it's
it's grand touring okay you know i mean
this again this is kind of like a 911
like 911 steering feels a bit more
accurate a bit more but
but i think this fits the personality of
the car which is
that
english muscle car oh
that's a great
um it is a slightly aggressive
transmission around town yeah the way
it's tuned yeah
but i mean the damping is is pretty good
it seems though yeah so i'll take us out
of control aggressively
especially in little tunnels you could
go through yeah and people would jump
yeah yeah they're bangs yeah this is a
car that
when it came out looked artful and
gorgeous enough that you felt like you
were doing everyone a favor right but
you you cashed in that karma by going
into a tunnel pissing everyone off yeah
that's right so
it was you know zero sum by the end
no i think this is i think this is a
really nice cabin as well right this
like it comes up quite high so it does
you do feel quite encamped in it yeah
like that like the the the hood bulge is
very high above us very high but it
makes it feel more special so you know
when this came out people were comparing
it to like the
cayman gts at the time which and the
results were that the cayman was sharper
and more of a
surgical tool and this was more brash
yeah and i i kind of like that about
this i like it has fun things
the way this
is only up when you need it so you turn
off the air con yeah and then it goes
down he just goes down bye-bye he's like
you don't need me anymore yeah i want
you back sir here you are
the materials fill quality in here yeah
i know it's all very nice and i like the
climate control is this all is this new
or is it always been like that it's
always been like this but i think
there's the new addition of when you
push it in you can control the seat but
don't worry don't quote me on that okay
okay
and then this is you know these
materials never used to be here yeah
this feels lovely i just love touching
this yeah
the car is like doing more please stroke
the fairy dust
the glass roof here comes forward enough
hopefully for your no this so here's
here's the thing everyone's i always
complain about sun roofs but i only
complain about sunroofs if they are not
useful to me as a driver this one is
because this is so far forward that i
can literally look up yes it does add
weight but this isn't you're not going
to track this car i have tracked one of
these really it does okay yeah it feels
heavy but
that's not really for that it's for it's
for driving around making a lot of loud
noises
showing up to a fancy dinner and going
like i have a jag that is why you get
one you're a couple of months away from
probably being able to buy a 2023 which
would be its ninth model year
and in some ways it's starting to show
its age because
they updated it well though like to
their credit they put their new
information it doesn't feel old in here
new gauge cluster yeah
i mean this still
is jealous of the amg gt which is
another car it could be with it because
the amg gt had that beautiful silver
middle yeah yeah this as an interior
this isn't super exciting no it's you
know you can get this in red and stuff
but even so
but
the suspension actually i think is the
downside of this car because it is quite
harsh in the city and since then things
like the c8 corvette have come out with
magneride oh the c8 corvette's got an
amazing ride yeah so i i wish you could
stick magnet ride in this and yeah and
interestingly the c8 corvette feels as
special as this to be in it does and how
much cheaper is it than this um by the
time you're all said and done it's not a
huge
huge jump it's probably 10 or 20 maybe
okay maybe and that's if you get a low
spec right right right but i think
considering this is about to be nine
years old
yeah it's held up it's held up very well
i will give them credit for that it
feels it feels different it feels
special it's quick
it shouts really loudly
i really like it i really really like it
i've always liked the vibe of the of the
f-type
as i said i drove the uh the previous r
oh my god
that tracks control cut in a bit there
oh my god that's crazy
that was fit to the floor the traction
control was just like like how was the
throttle response based on that like
from my perspective it was instant
obviously yeah it's pretty good that was
a really sharp response this is a
supercharged v8 and i think i as time
goes on the supercharged versus
turbocharged any day of the week yeah
especially for something fun you know
around town sure the turbocharge makes
life easy but
and i mean the fuel economy is not
probably not great in this i don't even
know what i've been doing and it feels a
car like this this day and age feels
silly because of how expensive fuel is
yeah but but
yeah if you if you had this and you had
like a e-golf to drive around to work
every day and you take this thing out of
the weekends you wouldn't feel guilty i
love that jack have introduced you know
it came out as a v6 option
i think the the r was the only way to
get a v8 unless you got the v8s
convertible
right
and then they introduced the turbo four
and they had so at one point in time i
think there was a turbo four six and an
eight
and now as time gets modern everyone
else is getting hybrid jack's like you
know what you're just getting the eight
yeah they've removed the turbo four no i
think that's a good that's a good move i
think it's a good move because oh jesus
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this car feels like it belongs
with this engine would you take your
peas in a pod would you take it in
yellow
um what other colors does it come in
yes yes i will take a yellow one please
i mean according to you this is orange
you've seen our rocky review i don't
know which one's coming out first oh
okay well if you haven't then you'll get
that joke when it does come out
this is yellow
maybe it's
orange sunset
the f-type still has a place
it came in a sharper the lc 500 is
softer yep
you know obviously it's a 911 fighter as
well but it doesn't have back seats
no this is uh
this has an attitude that those other
cars don't have
as time goes on i'm really getting like
the f-pace svr
which i didn't oh great originally think
much of
when you start driving the other ones
yannick is still having fun somehow yes
they are 100 they are and i massively
respect them for that
but safe fun
i don't
the all-wheel drive
with a hundred and twenty thousand
dollar car i don't mind yeah they're
fair enough they're not sliding
everywhere yeah because it feels quite
heavy this doesn't feel like a precision
machine no
it's true if there was like a dodge
challenger hellcat that like finally
went to school would you take this or an
m8
not even a question yeah i agree with
this any day of the week i think this is
quite a bit cheaper as well yeah the m8
is overpriced somehow the jag is the
value purchase
same with the svr f-pace all right give
me and then one more off you go
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making me wait for it
i know the spoiler goes up and the
spoiler goes up which you can put up
manually when you're parked or a lower
speed if you're a douchebag
you ever see someone's
death type spoiler app and it's parked
they have deliberately pressed they
might have deliberately done that which
by the way ruins the lines of this car
good to know good to know
all right let's park it so i can put the
spoiler up
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