Jaguar F-Type V8 S: Spitfire pilots would love this thing

摘要

Looks? Tick. Sounds? Huge tick. Acceleration? Sure, if low 12s suffice for your quarter-mile needs. But as a tool into which a driver can plug himself in, the big, bad F-Type V8 S was just an itty bitty bit too soft around the edges for our judges. Don't get us wrong, it's fun. Fold the roof down and aim the long bonnet up a squiggle of alpine bitumen, as we did, and you'll be smiling like a baboon in a banana plantation. Thank the 364kW, 625Nm supercharged V8 for that. It'll clip 100km/h in 4.3 seconds and with the wind tearing at your head as if whipped by a tornado, and plucking up the crisp eight-speed auto, it feels every bit that fast. And then there's the sound. Oh, the sound.