There is nothing at all wrong with the Jaguar F-Type sports car. I have struggled to get over its shape compared to the sensual XK and XKR, and yet on its own, it’s a legitimate British enthusiast car. While exploring the few manual transmission cars available in the CarMax inventory, I was surprised as hell to find a Jaguar. And when I did, I turned to the web to see how rare these cars are. All extrapolated, but it seems only 4% of Jaguars that made it to the US were manuals, and diving down to F-Types, in the “S” trim, only 100-150 were imported to the US. Here’s one. A unicorn.
Before we get to the drive train, let’s look at the creature accouterments. Or not. CarMax suggests this car has pretty much nothing going on inside and even notes it doesn’t have air conditioning. Bullshit. Amazing to me how far off CarMax can be in its descriptions. Generally, I don’t care, unless a car doesn’t have the options it says it has, in which case it’s overpriced. But what’s more important is that they get it wrong and underprice a car because it’s listed without features it really does have! Love those.
The Jaguar F-Type S is a big hatchback, like the Audi S5? or my 1977 AMC Gremlin?
Let’s get to performance. The Jaguar F-Type S is powered by a 3-liter supercharged V-6 making 380 horsepower. While it wouldn’t seem to have V-8 oomph, it actually zips to 60 mph in less than five seconds and tops out at 170 mph. I didn’t think it would be that fast.
This 2017 Jaguar F-Type S is currently on reserve in Tulsa, Oklahoma. You can track it here. It sold new for $80,000 and is on sale for about 40% of that now. It’s a two-owner, accident-free Texas car for all of its time. Here’s your chance for a rare unicorn. And for this price, you can spring for MaxCare and be out the door for less than $40,000.
Stock No: 27400858 VIN: SAJWB6BC2H8K37599
