Jaguar F-Type Review 2025: Price, specs & boot space

Written by Andrew Brady
Quick overview
Pros
- Damn, it’s pretty
- Those V8s sound magnificent
- It’s not a Porsche, and that’s a good thing
Cons
- You still want an Aston Martin Vantage, don’t you?
- Those V8s will be scarily expensive to run
- Infotainment still lags behind rivals on user friendliness
Overall verdict on the Jaguar F-Type
"In this Jaguar F-Type review, we are looking at a sports car that went a long way to putting Jaguar back in the game. When first introduced, the Jaguar F-Type was a big step forward from its predecessor - the XK, offering a more modern and engaging driving experience. It's aged gracefully too, and although some of its rivals are now a little younger, the Jaguar F-Type is attractive and still great to drive - don't scratch it off your shortlist."

Jaguar introduced the F-Type back in 2013, and it didn't feel the need to refresh the looks of it sports car offering until 2019, taking the opportunity too to rationalise the range a bit, slimming down the engine line-up, all of which made choosing your Jaguar F-Type simpler.
For all its age, the Jaguar F-Type remains a real head-turner, which, in this class is a real virtue. It helps it’s not one of the Porsches it competes against, with the Jaguar F-Type’s range and pricing spanning the 718 Cayman/Boxster models, as well as Porsche’s 911 Carreras, the Jaguar F-Type a more deliberate choice than the somewhat predictable Stuttgart cars.
While we’d have applauded you for buying the old Jaguar F-Type on its looks alone, the facelifted car’s revised styling really does elevate it to a new level. There’s some real elegance to the front end, the sharper rear lights adding some definition around its tail too. At the Jaguar F-Type’s launch back in 2013 a lot of noise was made about it evoking its E-Type ancestor, that never really ringing true back then - now the link is a bit more tangible.
Inside, it’s largely the same as it has always been, but through time Jaguar has sensibly concentrated on improving the material qualities, as well as the fit and finish. Think finessing rather than widespread changes inside, which given its design was fundamentally correct when it was launched is no bad thing. There’s improved, if still imperfect, infotainment in the newer models, while the simplified engine line up makes it easier to decide which F-Type to choose.
Previously the Jaguar F-Type’s engine heartland was a choice of V6s, but they’ve been dropped, Jaguar now offering the Jaguar F-Type with either a turbocharged, 2.0-litre, four-cylinder engine, or a supercharged 5.0-litre V8. There’s quite a gap between those powerplants, with that entry-level engine delivering 300PS and 400Nm, compared to the 450PS and 580Nm that the supercharged V8 develops.
If 450PS isn’t quite healthy enough an output for you then there’s another version of that supercharged V8 available, it being tuned to deliver 575PS and 700Nm of torque – numbers that better Jaguar’s old XJ220. Sensibly, given that monstrous output, the range-topping Jaguar F-Type is only available with four-wheel drive, with the 450PS version being offered with either four- or rear-wheel drive, and the four-cylinder entry-level car being rear-wheel drive only.
Unambiguously, Jaguar names its Jaguar F-Type line-up using its power outputs, so that entry-level car is the P300, with the P450 and P575 above it. All are available in either closed coupe or opening convertible forms and are two-seaters.
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Comfort and design: Jaguar F-Type interior
"The Jaguar F-Type’s interior might now be pushing on in years in its basic architecture and layout, but it’s testament to the quality of the original design that it still looks good today. As standard the Jaguar F-Type features six-way electrically adjusted sports seats covered in ebony leather and suede cloth as well as an electrically adjustable steering column – for rake and reach. Getting comfortable behind the wheel is easy enough."

The 75 Plus adds 12-way electric adjustment to the seats, and the electric, folding mirrors gain a memory function. The range-topping R model, limited to the P575 engine, gets keyless entry, memory added to the steering column adjustment and, if you’ve gone for the convertible, a wind deflector for when the roof is down. All convertibles get a powered hood, which drops quickly and easily at the push of a button.
Jaguar hasn’t gone as far as angling all the centre-console controls towards the driver as you might find in some cars, but it does delineate the passenger and driver’s spaces with a broad transmission tunnel, and older models have a distinctive grab handle for the passenger.
While that's likely to be welcomed by a passenger hanging on during a bout of spirited driving, it also makes passenger operation of the climate control a little less easy than it could be in older F-Types. There’s a bit of theatre getting in, too, from the pop-out door handles outside, to the way the air vents rise out of the top of the dashboard, small things, but ones that amuse and entertain.
Quality and finish
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Handling and ride quality: What is the Jaguar F-Type like to drive?
"The Jaguar F-Type covers a wide price spectrum and brief, so it’s not surprising that it lacks the clarity of focus of some of its rivals. Most will be happy with it though, the Jaguar F-Type’s ride being supple and composed. Only when you start asking bigger questions of the chassis does the Jaguar F-Type fail to deliver quite the incisive, predictable responses of the best of its rivals, and at road speeds, it’s not really a concern."

The entry-level Jaguar F-Type P300 makes do with standard passive suspension, which means there’s no possibility to adjust the damper settings via mode buttons inside. That’s not really an issue, as it rides commendably, particularly given the standard 20-inch wheels.
Earlier models came on wheels starting at 18-inches in size, which help the ride qualify further, but do nothing in the style stakes.
The simpler suspension of the four-cylinder P300 cars works well enough, largely because they are lighter than their V8 relations. Thanks to the P300’s lighter engine as well as the lack of four-wheel drive (the P450 offered in both rear- and four-wheel drive), its lesser mass definitely making the entry car feel a bit more nimble than its bigger performance relations.
The P450 and R both weigh significantly more, at worst carrying over 220kg extra, and while their engines have the performance to cope with it, that bulk needs controlling. Jaguar fits all the V8 cars with adaptive damping as standard, which helps, the does the addition of an Electronic Active Differential with torque vectoring by braking – the P300 getting an open differential but featuring that torque vectoring.
That all helps the V8 cars provide prodigious cross country pace, but they lack the finesse of the best of their competition, the steering not as precise or full of detailed feedback. Though the four-wheel drive system does, largely, retain a rear-wheel drive feel, overall they feel softer, a little bit more GT in character than the best of the Jaguar F-Type’s rivals.
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Refinement and noise levels
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MPG and fuel costs: What does a Jaguar F-Type cost to run?
"If fuel consumption’s important in your Jaguar F-Type, there’s only one choice: the P300."

On the WLTP combined test it scores 30.1mpg as a coupe or 29.7mpg for the Convertible, and on a longer run that’ll be possible. Under real-world use you can shave a few mpg off that, and if it’s occasional weekend blasts, then think early 20mpg or less.
The convertible uses a little bit more fuel, as it’s a touch heavier, but it’s unlikely you’ll really notice the difference. You will with the V8s though, with the P450 and Rs returning a WLTP combined consumption of around 26mpg, use them as intended and it’ll be way less. As for the SVR, it's not as thirsty as you might fear with 27mpg cited officially. Of course, that is more of an ambition than reality when you use the performance available.
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Insurance groups and costs
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How much should you be paying for a used Jaguar F-Type?
"Early, high mileage Jaguar F-Types start at around £23,000, for V6 supercharged models. The premium between coupes and cabriolets isn’t particularly noticeable in the used car listings. Even a four-year old V6 supercharged model with under 20,000 miles can be had in the mid-£30,000 sphere."

If you’re after a newer, 2.0-litre four-cylinder car you’ll pay from £50,000 for a car with circa 5,000 miles that is one-year old. The V8s will cost around £55,000 for the P450 with 10,000 miles at the same age, and an SVR will require a spend of £65,000 for a similar age and mileage example.
Trim levels and standard equipment
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