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Although it costs a whopping £135,000, all 65 units of the bespoke Jaguar F-Type Project 7 allocated for the United Kingdom are already spoken for according to the manufacturer. With production due to begin early next year, the British marque announced that only 250 examples of the limited edition will be made.
Customers from Great Britain together with a few lucky buyers from Japan will be the first to get the Jaguar F-Type Project 7, even though engineers are still hard at work making the Jaguar D-Type-inspired special edition road legal for the Asian market. The US-spec variant of the Project 7 will reportedly be unveiled on the 13th of August, at the Pebble Beach Automotive Week event.
If we're to believe the Jaguar official which corresponded with the Brits over at Autocar, these 250 F-Type Project 7 vehicles will be underpinned by the yet-to-be-announced 2015 model year of the F-Type convertible. Designed and built by Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle Operations division, the supercharged V8 mounted at the front unleashes 575 horsepower and 680 Nm of torque to the rear axle.
Coupled to an eight-speed automatic transmission, those figures add up to a 0 to 60 mph (96 km/h) time of just 3.8 seconds and a top speed artificially limited to 186 mph (300 km/h) for safety reasons. As an overall package, Jag's Project 7 is way more exquisite than a Porsche 911 Turbo S which retails for £142,000 in Great Britain. In case you were wondering, this is the most powerful and the fastest production vehicle ever made by the brand.
Moreover, the limited edition model is "quite a bit quicker" than the F-Type R Coupe round the Nurburgring, meaning that the Project 7 completed a full lap in under 7 minutes 39 seconds. Needless to say, grunt alone can't get you faster round the grueling Green Hell, so we presume that engineers calibrated the suspension system too.
SVO executive Harry Metcalfe revealed that upgraded mechanicals include beefed up front suspension towers and the same suspension design with dual-rate springs that debuted on the Jaguar XKR-S GT. As for the roof design, Metcalfe told Autocar that "we have several designs currently under evaluation, but it will be a tensioned fabric roof and it will keep the occupants dry in heavy rain."
If we're to believe the Jaguar official which corresponded with the Brits over at Autocar, these 250 F-Type Project 7 vehicles will be underpinned by the yet-to-be-announced 2015 model year of the F-Type convertible. Designed and built by Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle Operations division, the supercharged V8 mounted at the front unleashes 575 horsepower and 680 Nm of torque to the rear axle.
Coupled to an eight-speed automatic transmission, those figures add up to a 0 to 60 mph (96 km/h) time of just 3.8 seconds and a top speed artificially limited to 186 mph (300 km/h) for safety reasons. As an overall package, Jag's Project 7 is way more exquisite than a Porsche 911 Turbo S which retails for £142,000 in Great Britain. In case you were wondering, this is the most powerful and the fastest production vehicle ever made by the brand.
Moreover, the limited edition model is "quite a bit quicker" than the F-Type R Coupe round the Nurburgring, meaning that the Project 7 completed a full lap in under 7 minutes 39 seconds. Needless to say, grunt alone can't get you faster round the grueling Green Hell, so we presume that engineers calibrated the suspension system too.
SVO executive Harry Metcalfe revealed that upgraded mechanicals include beefed up front suspension towers and the same suspension design with dual-rate springs that debuted on the Jaguar XKR-S GT. As for the roof design, Metcalfe told Autocar that "we have several designs currently under evaluation, but it will be a tensioned fabric roof and it will keep the occupants dry in heavy rain."
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