JAG HITS THE TARGA

We’re seeing off our Jaguar F-type roadster after a year and nearly 20,000 miles. But first, it’s tough love time as it faces a Porsche 911 Targa. Matt Prior referees

PHOTOGRAPHY STAN PAPIOR

This still feels like a sports car test to me. Which is, I suppose, a feat of marketing – and, perhaps, a feat of the fact that cars without roofs are not quite so crippled dynamically as they once were. It’s mostly the marketing, though, I think. Had Jaguar’s F-type arrived first in coupé form, instead of the roadster that you see here, would you see it as the F-type sports car? Or would it be the poorer relation? The roadster was bigged up as the new Jaguar sports car when it was launched. “You’ll know within 50 metres,” Jaguar’s people said, “that you’re driving a Jaguar like none before it.” Mostly true. But over the past year – and this dark blue F-type roadster, in V6 S form, has…

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