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if you're looking to buy a Jaguar f-type coupe and want to save $1,500 you can now get this cheaper version with a manual transmission of course Jaguar did not include that manual transmission to save you money they did it for the sports car enthusiasts who demand a three petal driving experience and this 2016 jagger f-type s coupe is more sports car than most it's an absolutely gorgeous looking car with big rear haunches a low cabin and a long nose for the f-type I'm pretty sure Jaguar told its chief designer don't worry about demographics price or anything other than coming up with the best thing car you and sports cars like art should be kind of impractical and this Jaguar f-type certainly is it's only got two seats so the rear seats here we do have a little bit of cargo space but it's just enough to hold about $100 with the groceries from Whole Foods and this f-type S Coupe has more power than it reasonably needs under the hood we've got a three liter v6 engine supercharged that means a blower pushing air into the cylinders they get 380 horsepower 39 pound-feet of torque now you might think a man transmission is a pretty simple thing it's just a box full of gears you use the shifter to select the right one for your driving situation and mood but this one's kind of special tag your describes it as a semi dry sump so that means a pump that's phrase oil on the gears just when it needs it that helps reduce friction this thing has really short throws and it pops the end each year really neatly it's really easy to row through all six gears getting the precise one you want nice link manual driving enthusiasts will like this but I really love about this car is the handling I took it over an undulating curvy road and I'm just amazing how well the car handled it the choke flat rotation on the corners and it just damped out those bumps and just forgot about the media with the f-type coupe you get an adaptive suspension standard so I push this little checkered flag button on the console and that cycles between comfort and dynamic modes although the f-type coupe is an amazing sports car it also comes with a little bit of a practical side the standard is this infotainment system in the dash this touchscreen the navigation system looks pretty good it includes traffic information and routes around traffic jams I like that but what I don't really see here is an online destination feature in the destination options and it should have that especially at this price point things get interesting with the app integration I've actually got my iphone cable to the cars USB port running the in-control apps and that actually enables up to the few different third-party apps on the screen here music in this car plays through a standard Meridian audio system that's 770 watts 12 speakers that's such a big sound system for this small cab and I absolutely love it it sounds fantastic now the bad news the Jaguar f-type coupe maybe one of the smaller cars in Jagger's lineup but it is not cheap the f-type s cube goes for seventy eight thousand two hundred ninety five dollars base remember you're saving fifteen hundred dollars by getting the manual this example here has a few options that bring the total to ninety five thousand five hundred ninety five dollars the Jaguar f-type coupe is such a beautiful car that I think it's an instant classic I can't really decide whether I like the handling or the looks better taking that manual transmission means 0.4 seconds slower to sixty miles per hour than with the automatic but I can live with that mandrel transmission gives an engagement to the driving experience that's perfect for the dagger legacy and perfect for the f-type coupe