Jaguar News: Rumorpile: Jaguar F-Type Coupe To Come Available With 700 Horsepower

[William Maley]

William Maley

Staff Writer - CheersandGears.com

June 23, 2013

File this under the highly speculative folder. This past week Auto Express reported that Jaguar is planning to do R-S version of their new F-Type. The F-Type R-S is expected to come in a coupe form initially and pack a 700 horsepower engine that can make the F-Type R-S reach a top speed of over 200 MPH.

Here's where's it goes of the rails somewhat. Auto Express says one way Jaguar could achieve this is use some of the technology from the canned C-X75 hybrid supercar; a 1.6L turbo- and supercharged four-cylinder engine and an array of electric motors.

Auto Express says the F-Type R-S will arrive in 2016.

Source: Auto Express

William Maley is a staff writer for Cheers & Gears. He can be reached at [email protected] or you can follow him on twitter at @realmudmonster.

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[ocnblu]

What a convoluted mess that would be.

[ZL-1]

700HP = insanity... I like that!

[David]

As long as it is under warranty all is good, but the moment the warranty runs out, plan on thousands of dollars in cost each year to replace all the crazy electrical mess or the blown engine.

I do not see any long term life out of this mess, but just a short term excitement by those rich enough to afford this bleeding edge experiment.

Take a Z1 over this mess any day.

[dwightlooi]

The 5.0L AJ133 supercharged engine in the V8 F-type is the same motor as in the XF Supercharged, XFR, XFR-S and XK cars making between 470 and 550 hp (mostly due to bleed valve regulation*). Featuring dual VVT, a cam switching VVL system (2800 rpm switch over from low lift to high lift lobes), direct injection and an Eaton TVS supercharger. It's not a bad engine -- smooth, unexpectedly fast revving (for a X-plane V8) and decent on fuel economy (15/21 mpg; 15/23 mpg on the 8-speed cars). The Ratan Jaguars are also quite reliable compared to the old ones. There is no Lucas anything in there. The engine management systems are largely Ford. From a reliability and cost of ownership standpoint, I'll take an XF, XJ or F-type over any BMW M-car (especially the E60 M5 any day).

In any case, getting 700 hp out of a 5.0 liter blown motor isn't hard. Just don't expect 15/21 mpg when you enlarge the blower, drop the compression and go to a higher rated ZF gear box.

* You can run the XKR-S ECU file on the XF S/C and go from 470 hp to about 520~530, without changing anything else. I know first hand