2019 Jaguar F-Type SVR Coupé

This is a car that the elderly folk of the future will recall fondly, often with a moistening eye, as they tell their grandchildren about the days of yore when certain very special cars breathed fire, went like a terrified whippet at a Somme re-enactment display, and made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, look around and take cover. 

Jaguar will never again make a road-going car as ferociously, fabulously visceral and analogue as this monstrously powerful beauty and beast.

This car has had just two owners from new and has 64,028 miles under its belts. 

It starts, goes, handles, performs and stops like the thoroughbred it is.

Oh, and it accelerates like a peregrine falcon in a stoop, has more torque than the Flying Scotsman and makes a noise like an electrical storm over the Eiger.

All of which is good, in our opinion.

The car presents exceptionally well from every angle and there’s no denying that is passes the ‘What marque is that?’ test with flying colours – it could only be a Jaguar.

You’re left in no doubt that this particular Jaguar is a bit special, thanks to the big carbon-fibre rear spoiler, the SVR badging, and various skirts, splitters and other assorted bits of trim affixed to its flanks in various places.

The wheels are in very fine fettle, as are the matching Pirelli Sottozero tyres (aside from one small non-MoT-threatening flap of rubber on the n/s/f tyre), which are specified to meet the demands of typically wintry British weather and measure 305/30 R20 at the rear and 265/35 R20 at the front.

The shut-lines and panel gaps are as crisp and exact as you’d hope and want.

There are no dents, creases, ripples or folds of any significance than we can see. 

We noticed a very small, pin-head indentation on the bodywork between the driver’s door and the panoramic tinted-glass roof. 

We also noticed a small raised scuff just below the rear number plate, which has the look of a previous touch-up attempt about it. We don’t know. Either way, it’s insignificant.

The ‘Caldera Red’ paint is as shiny and bright as you fancy and the years have robbed it of none of its shine and lustre.

Naturally, it has earned itself a few stone chips and light scratches in the course of its perambulations. 

These are mostly found in the usual places – the bonnet, the nose of the car, the front splitter, the forward-facing aspects of the real wheel-arches, etc. There are also a few scratches and scuffs below the rear number plate and there’s a stone chip above the passenger door handle. 

The lights, lenses, badging and other exterior fixtures and fittings are all broadly beyond reproach.

Because it’s fuelled by exploding hydrocarbons not watts, designed by engineers not programmers, and aimed at people who prefer driving to Tik-Tok, the interior looks more like a car than a laptop with seats. 

Taking of seats, the ones in here are fashioned from quilted leather in a fetching shade that we believe goes by the somewhat enigmatic name of ‘Panjin Red’.

They are comfortable, supportive and functional in equal measure, you’ll be glad to know. 

The only indication that they’ve seen any use is a little very light wear to the outer bolster on the driver’s seat back-rest.

The door cards are in very good order, save for a small patch on the driver’s side where there’s some sticky residue from, presumably, previously applied adhesive tape.

The carpets and mats have withstood the vicissitudes of time and wear with commendable stoicism, as has the predominantly glass headlining and its accompanying pull-out fabric screen.

The car’s dials, instruments, switches and controls all look fine to us, as do the dashboard, steering wheel and gear selector.

The vendor assures us that everything electronic/electrical works as it should – including the Meridian sound system.

The boot, you won’t be surprised to learn, is following the same script as the rest of the car in terms of quality, condition and preservation.

This is a Jaguar that can reach 200mph and get you to 62mph in 3.5 seconds. 

It doesn’t need a socket or an extension lead. 

It doesn’t emit a thin, whining, high-pitched hum like a milk float, or Joe Pasquale. 

It has pistons and cylinders and sparks and petrol and oil and gears and old-fashioned things like that.

You’ll be relieved to read, then, that everything in the (very full) engine bay looks dry, shiny, correct and proper.

So, too, do the car’s undersides which are largely hidden by protective under-trays that would appear to have done a very good job of, well, protecting the undersides.

You’re good to go, as far as we can see, and you may confidently do so as briskly as you like.

The car has had just two owners from new.

More importantly, it has been serviced and maintained, on time and with no expense spared, by the same Jaguar main dealer – Inchcape of Guildford – from new.

It was last serviced by them two months ago. 

The car’s MoT certificate is valid until 15.8.25.

The car comes with full sets of keys and the owners’ manual.

This is the fastest road-going car wearing a Jaguar badge since the XJ220 of 1992.

This F-Type SVR has even more horses and torques than that legendary record-breaker and, like its illustrious forbear, there will never, ever be another one – not now that we’re all about to enter an automotive future in which, it seems, there will be no new internal combustion engines.

No, if you want to experience full-throttle, hairy-chested, gonads-out brute force and engineering finesse delivered by a company at the peak of its considerable powers, this is the car to have... and the time to have it is now or never.

We’re confident to offer this fine car for auction with an estimate of £43,000 - £47,000. 

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