The Jaguar Project 7 car – an F-Type R in all but name with D-Type design features – is at Goodwood this weekend and we have video of it in action on the hillclimb.
Jaguar Project 7 F-Type (pictured) tackles the Goodwood FoS hillclimb
One of the surprises of the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed has been the debut of the Jaguar Project 7 car, an F-Type with the more bountiful 542bhp supercharged V8 and styling stolen from the D-Type.
Jaguar are saying Project 7 isn’t heading for production, but we’re pretty sure most of what’s underneath it – principally the 542bhp version of the supercharged V8 – is in a production F-Type R.
Perhaps surprisingly, fitting the 542bhp version of the V8 doesn’t seem to have done a lot for the F-Type’s sprint times, with 62mph coming up in 4.1 seconds, just 0.1 seconds quicker than the 495bhp engine in the standard Jaguar F-Type V8.
By contrast, fitting the 542bhp V8 to the XKR improved 0-62mph from 4.8 in the XKR to 4.4 in the S, so we’d expected a similar improvement for the F-Type which would have seen it dipping well below 4 seconds 0-62mph. Still, perhaps that’ll happen in the production version.
The Project 7 F-Type doesn’t look as stunning going up the hillclimb as the D-Type would have done, but it’s still a good looking car and it does make a nice noise.
But should whoever was driving have left the traction control on? The F-Type does look a bit wayward in the video.
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