Watch the Jaguar Project 7 F-Type go up the Goodwood hillcimb

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.

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.