Jaguar F-Type Coupe by SVO for Tour de France – JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations creates F-Type support car for Sky Team

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Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Operations Division has created a Jaguar F-Type support car for the final stages of Jaguar’s Team Sky Tour de France.

We’ve already had two new cars from JLR’s new Special Operations division in the guise of the new Range Rover Sport SVR and Jaguar F-Type Project 7, and now we get another – the Jaguar F-Type R Coupe support car for Jaguar’s Team SKY Tour de France exploits.

The support car SVO has created is the standard F-Type R Coupe with the 542bhp supercharged V8, painted in the SKY Team’s usual blue colours and fitted with a clever roof rack to carry a couple of bikes.

Other updates include tech in the car to allow team officials to communicate with the tour organisers – including radio, TV and a power supply – and are designed to be used on the individual time trial runs.

Unlike normal stages – where the support Jaguars are usually the XF Sportbrake crammed to the top with spare bikes and parts and any other gubbins that might be needed – the F-Type Coupe support car is going to be useful in the time trial stages.

On the time trial stage it’s one rider against the clock, so all they need is a car quick enough to keep up (we thing the F-Type Coupe R may just about be able to do that), carry just a couple of spare bikes and be able to keep in touch with the race organisers.

And, of course, give a bit of a place in the Tour de France’s huge media coverage for the new Jaguar F-Type R Coupe.