Jaguar F-Type Coupe ‘Lightweight’ Club Sport plotted

It looks like there’s going to be a more focused, lightweight Jaguar F-Type Coupe ‘Club Sport’ on the way as Jaguar seek to exploit their new sports car.

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The new Jaguar F-Type Coupe is the first proper sports car from Jaguar in 50 years, and it looks like Jaguar are plotting to extend the appeal of the F-Type Coupe with more focused versions.

We’ve already seen the Jaguar Project 7 F-Type with a hefty dose of DNA from the D-Type – even if that was billed as a one-off – but it now seems Jaguar are looking for a limited production run of a lightweight F-Type – perhaps the Jaguar F-Type Club Sport.

Motoring in Australia managed to bend the ear of F-Type Production Director Russ Varney, who had some interesting speculation to add fuel to the fire over the rumours of a more focused F-Type Coupe.

Varney said he would like to take the F-Type Coupe to the point where it was still a proper F-Type but with lower weight – around 200kgs lighter – by taking a holistic approach across the car and lightening it where possible – including carbon fibre panels – which would all be possible with a 500 production run every year.

The obvious power plant for an F-Type Club Sport would the the F-Type R’s 542bhp supercharged V8, but Varney seemed to hint that a more powerful supercharged V6 could offer a possible route.

Whichever route Jaguar choose to make the F-Type lighter and more powerful, it seems likely they will be heading in to proper supercar performance territory, with a 0-60mph in the mid 3 seconds and a price that will be heading towards £150k.

But what is clear is that when (not if) Jaguar produce a more focused, powerful and lighter version of the F-Type, it will be the F-Type Coupe they use, not the Roadster.