Jaguar’s newest F-Type comes with feelgood fitted as standard

Last time we talked F-Type, it would have been about the four-wheel-drive, 570bhp SVR version. We would have been pretending to be excited about it. You know, as if we had met at a work social event and were trying to come across as top lads. In fact, we find this kind of thing is more interesting: a new entry-level £50k F-Type with a lightweight four-cylinder, two-litre turbocharged engine. It still has 300bhp, it’ll still be rapid and tuneful, but it’ll also get close to 40mpg and 163g/km emissions. That’s purposeful engineering, we reckon. (But, if you ask us about it at a wedding, we’ll tell you it’s ‘a total joke’.)

Fraser Macdonald consulting editor

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Fraser used to wear a Psion Series 3 palmtop in a shoulder holster. Perhaps he still does.Either way, his lifelong mission - including fourteen years for Stuff - has been to see whether the consumer electronics industry can ever replicate that kind of cyborgian joy.So far: nope. Despite a plan to combine a action camera and Olympus Eye-Trek goggles to become Man Who Sees The Vision Of A Man Three Inches Taller Than Himself.He also likes mountain bikes, motorbikes, cars, helicopters. Still thinks virtual surround is witchcraft. Dislikes jetskis, despite never having been on one.