Maybe the second hand car market is full of vehicles that in many cases nobody wants, people who come too high with the price of what they want to be their ex-car and authentic antiques; But among that marsh of models, from time to time a jewel emerges, and those opportunities must be seized. For example, would you have ever imagined being able to get a Jaguar at the price of a Honda Civic? We do not either, but you're on time.
And in the web Bring a Trailer have a Jaguar F-Type auction in 2014 and the highest bid (there are three days to close) goes for 20,000 dollars, which change only amount to 17,000 euros. This, added to the state of the model and the variant that it is, seems a round business.
It is a unit of 2014, an F-Type V8 S with a tarpaulin that has only 13,000 miles in its kmkometer, just under 21,000 kilometers. It has all the original documentation, its history shows that it has been owned by only two people and it has an extended warranty until 2020 or until it covers 100,000 miles (there is a margin to spare in both cases).
Jaguar F-Type V8, the beast uncovers. The paint looks the finish Ultimate Black Finish factory, assembles the optional package Design Pack, which adds to the color of the body splitter and side skirts; fits the standard 20-inch Cyclone wheels wrapped in Pirelli P-Zero tires of 255/35 front and 295/30 rear, and the interior features black leather upholstery, seats and heated steering wheel, Meridian sound system and the Vision Pack , formed by automatic long lights, adaptive lighting, warning and blind angle and rear view camera.
To this we must add a mechanical section more than succulent: a five-liter V8 engine that develops 495 hp and 625 Nm of maximum torque, eight-ratio automatic gearbox with torque converter, limited slip differential and an acceleration of 0 at 100 km / h in 3.6 seconds. I bet you prefer it to a new Honda Civic.
The F-Type is a very controllable rear propulsion: that implies that it lets you drift from curve to curve with a lot of margin. But he has no chance against the TT RS. Why? His address is not as direct, nor his response as accurate as the Audi. Let's say it gives you less contact with the asphalt. To that we must add 250 kilos over the German sports car, as well as a mixed combination of mixed tires that seems inappropriate: too thin front and wide behind.
That's why in the slalom he suffers some grip losses, and too steep understeer. The slippage of the back, yes, allows neutralizing them, although that means losing tenths. The TT RS, on the other hand, feels extremely agile, puts the rear always in the ideal point and with its precise direction allows to pass only a few centimeters from the cones. The grip level of its integral traction is huge at all times.
The return by Sachsenring makes it as if you were on rails. The grip is brutal, and it is incredibly easy to find the ideal vertex of each turn, and to get out of the curves by stepping on the ground, with a huge thrust. We have done a time of 1: 38.21 minutes. In the Jaguar, you can compensate its tendency to understeer with a slightly more aggressive driving than usual. So, to get out of the corners, it helps the great thrust of his V6 and slight oversteer. But at all times, it requires more work at the wheel than the Audi. The chrono has given us 1: 40.25 minutes per lap.
One of the strengths of the Jaguar is in the brakes: the stops are powerful and the pedal feel stable, even after many laps. Those of the Audi are not so successful: their expensive ceramic brakes (those of the Jaguar are made of steel) lose performance after a few laps at Sachsenring. They resist the heating worse.
The 2018 power units will be designed and produced only in Italy. In addition, Wolf Zimmermann, responsible for the area of engines, leaves his post. The Ferrari engine area will suffer two important new features for 2018. In the first place, the Ferrari power units are once again designed and produced only in the Maranello race department. On the other hand, Wolf Zimmermann - the German engineer who left Mercedes AMG in October 2014 to get to the engine department of Cavallino - is no longer responsible for the area of the power unit.
The team has carried out a reorganization within the engine department that has made Corrado Iotti from the GT area at the head of the thermal engine work group. In addition, the head of design, Lorenzo Sassi, left in summer.
Zimmermann was the technician who dealt with the partnership between Ferrari and AvL in the last three years and, now that the collaboration between the two companies was interrupted, a reorganization of the personnel was necessary.
