Gadgetory

well it's noe type but then again what is this at least comes rather close to the original while also stealing a pager to from the 911 let's drive Jaguars latest and definitely most interesting the 2014 f-type v8 s and check the tech now I'll tell you my experience with this car driving it the real world for a few days is that people fall in love with it a lot of good things about the lines especially up here in the front where I see definitely an echo of the original e type grille little different shape but you get the idea you've also got a little bit of Honda s2000 a little bit of Miata up here and I don't mean those as insults although I guess at this price they kind of are now parked next to an original e type this F would look like a moving van but don't blame Jaguar blame 50 some odd years of regulations that tell you where the headlights have to be where the bumpers have to be how many air bags you need how you have to handle pedestrian impacts side impact rollover that said this and the original e type are within about an inch of each other nose to tail after that they begin to diverge quite dramatically at the rear something of a horizontally pinched Trump also echoes the e-type as do the similar horizontal slit tail lamps now jag loves to motorize things so the rear spoiler is indeed the flush door handles extend when the car is unlocked and even the center air vent powers up when the vehicles powered up just because it can the next thing you see is the extreme driver centrism of this cabin you've got an incredible number of displays interfaces interfaces with displays in them until you get to the east side of the Jesus handle in nothing this car tells the passenger sit down shut up and don't touch anything now operating this cars head unit is a relatively limited experience you're not going to get on a controller there isn't one it's all touchscreen and quite responsive and interestingly no voice command but I can't say I miss it because most voice command systems in cars are crap and notice what they've done to economise real estate around the climate system which always takes up a lot more real estate than it does need to spend time with it so jag has imbedded displays inside the nob as you turn this knob for driver's side temp it shows it inside the knob face press it and it turns into the seat heating or cooling control with similar display it's a nice way to clear things up now let's talk about the drivetrain and powertrain controls easy to spot because they're all in a copper tone color paddle shifters downshift left up shift right mounted to the wheel not my favorite but they're nice and tall so you can get to them pretty easily from anywhere start/stop button of course over here is a very simple vehicle dynamics control push it up once to get your snow mud ice slippery condition push it down and it's in the middle now for normal driving pull it down to this checkered flag and now you're in dynamics mode that tells you that with one icon on the center LCD this is nice and simple and easy to use your shifter here that goes to your 8-speed quick shift automatic no manual no DCT in this car controversial but we'll check out on the road here in a minute you've got a power button for your spoiler if you like playing with that thing or washing the car and then you've got your sport exhaust on/off button here now related to our drive systems here is another menu up on the home menu you go into extra features and then you get to this stuff called dynamic I this is an optional set of technologies on this car when you hit that you're going to be given an area for custom setup of just about everything in the powertrain you can decide how you want the gear shifts to behave dynamic or normal suspension which is adaptive in these cars dynamic or normal steering same thing engine throttle response and power delivery similar push this and you get a track timer because you're gonna be tracking your $90,000 3600 pound convertible all the time over here is your g-force sensor you know kind of fun to watch and here is some pedal display like I don't know what I'm doing that's kind of superfluous but they had room for a button so why not now in terms of media you've got basically one set of inputs and two choices on the output you've got radio with HD and satellite optional that's not included base under here my music you're going to find a whole variety of sources which include the USB and the aux jack here in the center console you've also got bluetooth streaming standard on this vehicle CD slot is down in here which plays DVDs as well when you're parked the base audio system is 10 speakers 380 watts ample for a small cabin or go to 12 speakers 770 watts is that right yep the base audio reg is 10 speakers in this little cabin 380 watts you can also up it to 12 speakers 770 watts and both are Meridian branded stuff you're either going to have the sound or lots of lots of sound one thing I have a gripe about are these visors they only come down they do not sit here at the eyebrow and flip up so all those times when you're driving along and the Sun is right there can't do anything about it except put your hand up here and look like a dork now as you can see jag went with a conventional soft top not a retractable hardtop though they did insulate this one really well so it's pretty quiet on the road and it goes quick 12 seconds from one end or the other whichever direction you're going and as you can see it does not go into the trunk which is a good thing it doesn't take up any trunk space the downside is there isn't much trunk space no matter what position it's in now the hood opens as it should on this car forward and giving you a look at the 5 liter supercharged v8 these cars are rear-wheel drive and there's one choice only between here and there and that is an 8-speed automatic transmission called a quick shift gearbox that raised a lot of eyebrows no manual gearbox no dual clutch gearbox just an automatic which we're going to check out on the road and I think you're going to be impressed the number is on this Mill R 495 horsepower 460 foot-pounds of torque this car weighs around 3,700 pounds but gets up to 60 and 4.2 seconds no kidding your mileage is fine 16:23 i'm sixteen mixed all the way okay the first thing I do without a friend is defeat the auto start-stop because as in any non electrified car I find it to be kludgy the next thing I noticed right off the bat is wow that is one crisp transmission and it's an automatic as I mentioned not a DCT obviously not a manual but it is super fast super tight I might have no gripes about it this has to be the best automatic transmission I have ever driven next thing is this is ten things so fast it's actually obnoxious it's really fun for a few minutes and then you feel like an idiot because everybody's looking at you there is so much power here it's almost a bit much this is a showy car in this configuration I go for the v6 almost certainly now the f-type is a flagship car so they don't come cheap even the base vehicle is like 69 grand this guy the v8s bases out at 90 mm then you got to add some things to get it seen that style let's start off with about 1,200 bucks for the big Meridian audio system why not it's a small cabin but nothing succeeds like excess steel on this car is 220 measly bucks for the sport exhaust system even if you only use it once in a while to scare the neighbors it's worth the money now the big-ticket stuff 27:32 add the fully addressable dynamics package it lets you really shape all the vehicles on the road systems and set your own profile and about $2,100 gets you what they call the vision pack which is the intelligent high beams steerable front headlights passive blind spot technology rear camera and front sensors now my philosophy on the f-type if it's possible to have one after just three days is I would look down market consider also the v6 supercharged base car it's gonna save you 23 grand get you substantially better miles per gallon and still do a nice 5.1 260 miles an hour but it's going to I think alighting much more engaged in the driving process this car has an awful lot on tap you spend a lot of time controlling it keeping it from leaving Earth's orbit and not as much driving it as idling