2023 Jaguar F-type

August 06, 2022

The 2023 F-type offers everything you’d expect from a Jaguar sports car: a beautiful design, a sonorous engine, and plenty of driving character. While it was previously available with a turbo-four or a supercharged V-6, it now comes only with a supercharged V-8 producing either 444 or 575 horsepower. The front-engine F-type competes with mid-engine sports cars such as the Chevy Corvette and Porsche 718, but the heavy Jag can’t quite match those models’ nimble feel. It’s also starting to look dated inside and doesn’t offer much space for either occupants or small items.

Engine

While many sports cars have transitioned to downsized turbocharged four- and six-cylinder engines, Jaguar has taken the opposite approach and now offers the F-type only with an old-school supercharged 5.0-liter V-8. It makes 444 horsepower in P450 form and 575 horsepower in the high-performance R configuration. Both versions offer an exceptional auditory experience with plenty of snaps, crackles, and pops coming from the exhaust. In our testing, the F-type R got to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds. That’s quick, but not as quick as a comparable Corvette or Porsche 718. The F-type’s driving experience is engaging, with good steering and a relatively comfortable ride, but its responses are not as sharp as more hard-core sports cars rivals if you intend to take it to the racetrack or on spirited backroad romps.

Fuel

The EPA has not yet released official figures for the 2023 F-type, but we don’t expect it to change from the 2022 model’s ratings. That means that rear-wheel-drive P450 models will continue to offer 19 mpg combined, with all-wheel-drive P450 and R configurations rated at 18 mpg combined. In our real-world 75-mph highway fuel-economy test of a 2021 R coupe, the F-type exceeded its EPA rating, achieving a 27-mpg result that beat its highway estimate by 3 mpg.