Jaguar F-Pace SVR review: Is this the best sounding V8 SUV in 2020? My ears say yes!

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Brace your ears for the best sounding SUV on the road. The 2020 Jaguar F-Pace SVR is a 5.0-litre supercharged V8 beast that emits one of the best engine and exhaust notes we've ever come across! But, what's it like as a daily driven car? Paul Maric finds out!  Read the full review: https://www.carexpert.com.au/review/2020-jaguar-f-pace-svr-review/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=review&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=single-car-review  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior: 00:52 Interior: 02:50 Infotainment: 04:35 Features: 14:10  Practicality: 15:55 On the Road: 19:23 Verdict: 25:24  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric #review #jaguar #fpace #svr @jaguarcars

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. Now, I think there's a problem, and that is with the pricing of the car behind

00:04 me. It's a Jaguar F-Pace SVR, and I think when Jaguar was doing the pricing, they did

00:08 it all and then forgot to carry a 2, because it is way too cheap for what it is. This is

00:13 Jaguar's performance SUV, and it kind of sits in a weird segment, because it's technically

00:18 a medium-sized SUV, but it has a hulking big supercharged V8 under the bonnet, and priced

00:23 at $140,000-ish. It's actually a whole lot cheaper than cars like the GLC 63, which is

00:29 $170,000-ish, and then you've got other cars in that segment like the X5M, the GLE 63,

00:35 so it sits in this weird middle ground, and I think it is way too cheap for what it is.

00:38 Now, if you want to skip ahead to this thing making a whole lot of noise, you can use the

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00:52 Let's talk exterior, and tell me in the comments below, do you reckon this is the best looking

00:56 SUV out there? I personally think it is, because just have a look at it. Especially

01:00 here in Ultra Blue, there's seven colours available, and they're all free of charge.

01:04 You know how normally they charge for metallic colours and all that sort of stuff? These

01:08 are all free, so you can pick any of those seven at no cost to you, and I have another

01:12 good surprise here, real vents. Have a look at this, you have real bonnet scoops there,

01:17 they have holes in them so I can stick my fingers in, giant radiators here, holes here,

01:21 and then holes behind the wheel as well, adaptive LED headlights, and I love this big gaping

01:26 grille, so you can tell it's the SVR because it demands cooling, that supercharged V8 wants

01:31 to stay nice and cool, and this is where all that air's coming through.

01:34 Front and rear parking sensors, and you can see the radar there, that big block with the

01:38 Jaguar logo, and then it proudly wears the SVR logo off to the side. When we get to the

01:42 back I'll show you the exhaust, which is the other telltale sign.

01:45 Around here we have 21-inch alloy wheels as standard, but this car is fitted with the

01:49 optional 22s. I'll be interested to see whether that affects the ride or not. Big brakes

01:53 as well, 395mm rotors at the front. These are special wheels though because the F-Pace

01:58 SVR has lighter weight wheels to save weight all round. It comes in at just under 2 tonnes,

02:03 and these wheels save 2.5kg at the front end, a little less at the rear. The exhaust as

02:07 well saves 6.5kg with the material that they're using, aluminium body as well, so this car

02:13 is built for performance and with a supercharged V8 engine under the bonnet, you can kind of

02:17 tell.

02:18 Now come around to the back here, you've got a full panoramic roof there that looks

02:22 excellent inside the cabin. There's some aero for you, this cool duckbill spoiler. But around

02:26 the back is where you're going to be able to tell this car apart from others in traffic.

02:29 You have quad exhaust pipes. These make an almighty racket. You'll hear this car coming

02:34 from a mile away. Now these are electrically actuated, that's slightly different to some

02:38 of the pressure driven ones that wait until a certain RPM until they open the second slot

02:41 of bimodal pipes. This is electrically driven and that means that when you're driving around

02:45 normally they can actually have it sounding louder, even though you're not hard on the

02:49 throttle, so it gives it a really dynamic sound profile. Another SVR badge there and

02:53 then you've got a reflector built into this kind of fake air vent here. And this, check

02:58 out all the gills behind this wheel. But it is a good looking rear on this car as well

03:02 and this blue really sets it apart from the other F-Paces on the road.

03:05 So the outside of the F-Pace is stunning. What about the interior? I'm in two minds

03:10 about this because I love parts of it and I hate other parts of it. Let's start with

03:13 the bits that I love, the seat. It looks stupidly cool. I love that leather stitching, it wraps

03:19 around beautifully. It's got the SVR insignia in the headrest, but have a look at this.

03:24 The seat's already falling apart. The car has done like 1500km which is virtually brand

03:29 new, and that's really, really not cool. And in terms of the rest of it, I like the way

03:32 that it looks, but I know that it could look better because the Jaguar XE just received

03:37 an update and it got the same interior as the I-Pace and this is what it used to look

03:41 like. Now it has two screens, you actually get a nice steering wheel instead of this

03:46 thing with all the plastic and cheap stuff on it. That just looks a little bit cheap

03:49 and nasty. Look, that stuff to one side, it is nicely presented with piano black which

03:54 I'm not a huge fan of, but it does look nice to the eye. I like the contrast stitching,

03:57 but how soft is it? That is the ultimate test. Let's get our geometer. It measures from 0

04:02 to 100 where 0 is super soft and 100 is super hard. So let's try it on the top dashboard

04:08 first. That's about a 60, that's pretty good there. And let's try it on the centre console

04:14 here. That's in the 70s. It is soft, but it's not super soft, it could be softer. And what

04:21 about build quality? So we've got the nasty seat thing going on there. The rest of this

04:26 actually feels really good. Everything's nice and solid, nothing sort of moving around too

04:30 much. So tick for build quality aside from the seat that's weirdly falling apart.

04:35 Let's talk infotainment. I'm going to give you a detailed review here of InControl Touch

04:38 Pro which is the infotainment system fitted to this car, but we're going to do this in

04:42 three sections. One is the infotainment system, the next is the remote application, and then

04:47 finally I'll walk you through the screen in front of the driver. So let's kick things

04:51 off over here. It's a 10-inch screen, it's a touchscreen as well. All of your interaction

04:55 is done on the touchscreen. There's no centre iDrive style dials. So I'm going to show you

05:00 the 360 camera, but I have to start the car first to show you what it looks like. So once

05:05 you press this button, it brings up the 360 camera, and then when you select reverse,

05:09 it will adjust the views automatically to suit what you're going near, and then you'll

05:13 see the parking sensors pop up on the side there as well. But there is a really cool

05:17 function here I want to show you. It is the trailer reversing assistant. So you get yourself

05:21 set up with a trailer. Let's just say it's got two axles and it is 250mm wide, 40mm across

05:32 there. And then what it says is make sure the car is aligned with the trailer, because

05:37 what it's now going to ask you to do is put a target on the trailer. And what this does

05:41 is allows the car to recognise where the trailer is, so that when you do reverse with it on,

05:46 it will automatically reverse the trailer into the parking spot for you and you won't

05:50 have to do anything. Let's go through the navigation menu, and this is where it gets

05:54 a little bit confusing here. So you have navigation like any other car. That works fairly well.

05:59 Where it doesn't work well is on cold starts. So when you first turn the car on, after you

06:03 directly hop into it, you can't really put any addresses in because it takes a while

06:07 to boot up. So that's a little bit frustrating and sometimes a bit laggy when it wants to

06:12 be, but then other times like right now it's fine. It's all working nice and quickly. So

06:15 a little bit confusing. Traffic overlays. Yes, it has traffic overlays, except you have

06:20 to be paired to your phone through Wi-Fi, which is what I've done now, or alternatively

06:25 in the centre console here, get another SIM card. So the car already has a SIM card for

06:29 the remote services, but you then need to buy your own data SIM card to get things like

06:33 traffic and to use the embedded app. So it's a little bit confusing that you have to have

06:37 two data SIMs on the go, but from there it's very straightforward to put addresses in and

06:43 you can go through looking for points of interest. You can put your home address in. So it is

06:47 fully functional. It is just a little bit clumsy in terms of the way that it works.

06:51 Embedded into the system as well is Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. We don't have an

06:54 Android phone, but I do have an Apple phone, so I'll show you what that looks like. It's

06:57 a widescreen setup, works pretty well. It's just not super high resolution, which is weird.

07:01 I would have expected some of this stuff to be a little bit sharper, but outside of that,

07:05 it's just your standard Apple CarPlay integration and all works really easily. To get back to

07:10 the Jaguar menu, you just press Jaguar, it takes you back to the native inbuilt system.

07:15 In the media menu, that's where you're going to find all the connectivity options for the

07:17 radio. The car doesn't come standard with DAB+ digital radio. You have to option that

07:22 on most Jaguars, which is kind of strange, but it does come with FM, AM and then DAB+

07:27 when you do option it. You access it through here. The sessions are easy to find and the

07:31 good thing is they're easy to set as favourites as well. So as you scroll through here, if

07:35 you want a favourite, you just hit that and then it puts it into your favourites list.

07:39 So it's very easy to navigate there, find your favourites and then also call them up

07:42 on your heads up display as well. Swipe across here and you get access to the rest of the

07:45 menus. So eco data is simply the economy impact you've had on your previous driving. I've

07:51 been a little bit naughty having a listen to the exhaust and stuff like that, so just

07:55 pretend these numbers are better than they are, but they're all above 15 litres per 100

07:59 kilometres. You then also have access to a web browser built into the screen. It's not

08:04 the best thing in the world, it's a little bit slow and can be cumbersome at times. Let's

08:09 try visiting the best car website in the world. See how long that takes to load. Okay, there

08:21 it is there. We'll try scrolling now as well. You can see it's a bit laggy and kind of displays

08:26 weirdly as well. It's adopted half a mobile format and half a desktop format, so not a

08:32 huge fan of that. I don't know why they bother integrating web browsers when they don't actually

08:36 look that good. This I find fascinating. There's a flight tracker randomly built into this,

08:42 so let's give this a shot. We'll see what this looks like. So we'll go here and go by

08:48 routes from, let's just go Melbourne, M-E-L, that's looking for Melbourne now, to Sydney,

08:58 S-Y-D, airport. Okay, so let's find the flights for today. Okay, there it is there. See this

09:06 flight arrived late. There you go, some fascinating information. And then weather of course, which

09:11 is very handy to know what the weather is going to be like where you're going or even

09:15 where you are right now. So you can see here that it is, as the screen crashes a little

09:19 bit. Okay, that's not great. So you can see stuff like this. Clearly they've integrated

09:24 all of these things, but then it randomly crashes every now and then, which kind of

09:28 doesn't fit you with confidence in the way that it works. You can option ambient lighting.

09:32 So this car comes with the LED configurable lighting. And in here is where you change

09:36 all the colors, the brightness and when it comes on and off. But Dynamic Eye is specific

09:42 to SVR cars, and you can see when it is in dynamic mode, if I flick that across, you

09:47 can configure exactly what the car is doing in terms of the suspension, the engine, the

09:51 exhaust note. They've also got a lap timer, you have a G meter built in and then a throttle

09:57 position sensor as well. So as you press the throttle harder, that goes up and down. That's

10:02 handy information if you ever do take the car to a racetrack. And finally, you have

10:06 the ASI suite. This is for off-road driving. You're not going to be doing a whole lot of

10:10 off-road driving in this car as the screen crashes again. Okay, excellent. So the screen

10:18 has now crashed. Hello?

10:22 Oh, screen's back. I hope. Okay, yay, the screen's back. Okay, so I just disconnected

10:37 the phone and it's now kind of working a little bit better. So I don't know, maybe there's

10:42 some compatibility issue there with Apple CarPlay and the way that it talks to the screen.

10:46 Anyway, where I was before it crashed was the off-roading screen. If you do decide to

10:50 do some off-roading in this car, even though you won't, this is where you're going to find

10:53 information about the surface you're driving on with some handy camera angles here to show

10:58 you what's going on around the car. And then finally, you'll also find the low friction

11:02 launch, which is just a feature that gives you a little bit of extra slip as the car

11:06 takes off, but then won't overcome the wheels with torque, which will cause it to spin and

11:10 do silly stuff.

11:11 Finally, the system comes with voice recognition. This actually works quite well. So when I

11:15 press this button, it comes up with the voice menu and then it allows me to pick what I

11:20 want to do. I can enter full navigation addresses, ask it to call people. It's quite intuitive

11:26 and it understands a lot of voices and a lot of weird phone names as well.

11:30 Let's talk about the Jaguar remote application. This is one of the few applications for these

11:34 cars that works quite well. So when you open it up, it presents you with information about

11:38 the car so you can see how much fuel is in there, the weather at the location where the

11:42 car is, the range, the odometer and the status of the car. So whether the doors are open,

11:48 windows are closed, you can remotely lock and unlock the car from here as well. And

11:51 then you have a map that shows you where the car is and directions to your car. So if you're

11:55 at a music festival or something, you can find your way back to the car if it's in some

11:59 weird car park or some big field.

12:01 On this screen here, you can remotely start the car. So if you do want to get the climate

12:05 going, you can push this button, it'll send a command to the car and switch it on. But

12:09 be careful, don't remotely start your car if it's in a garage because this has a petrol

12:13 engine. It is going to make toxic fumes and it's not good for your lungs.

12:18 Next up you have trip history. I love this function because it shows you where you've

12:22 been, how much fuel you've used in your last journeys, your maximum speed, your average

12:26 speed and the efficiency. Don't look at that bit. We've used quite a lot of fuel because

12:33 I love the exhaust sound.

12:35 Next up is details about the car such as VIN number, registration number, the ability to

12:39 call Jaguar assistance. And in addition to that, if the car does get stolen and the alarm

12:44 gets triggered, they can call you as well, track the car remotely and switch it off remotely.

12:49 So this is a fully featured app and you can get it with most Jaguars, which is awesome.

12:53 Finally, let's have a look at the screen in front of the driver. It's a little over 12

12:57 inches in size, all LCD. You don't have any more analogue gauges. It moves fairly quickly

13:01 as you're driving. So the rev counter goes up fast. In the older car, the XJ, it was

13:06 a little bit laggy, so it wouldn't keep up with everything that was going on. You can

13:09 fully configure everything on there. I'll show you what the screen looks like when you

13:12 change into dynamic mode. You can see how it goes all red as soon as that happens. And

13:18 then you can completely take over the screen and change where the elements of it sit. So

13:23 at the moment we have the map in the centre there. I can change it to show the radio station

13:27 that we're listening to. So I'll jump out of that. Or you can actually change the entire

13:32 look of that panel by going down to layout and then changing to a one dial setup, which

13:37 moves everything like this, or to a full map, which I think is pretty full on. I prefer

13:43 the two dial layout. And then finally, you also have the ability to configure the rest

13:47 of the car's settings, such as security features, how long the lights stay on outside, convenience

13:51 features inside the cabin, everything including reverse dipping for the mirrors, whether the

13:58 windows all open at the same time when you hold unlock, what action you have for the

14:02 gear shift paddles. It all works really well. The only thing I don't like is just, again,

14:06 how cheap these buttons feel as you move through them. They are much better on the new XE.

14:10 Let's talk about the other features you get as standard in the F-PACE SVR. You have heated

14:14 and cooled seats. It would be nice if there was just a button here for the seat heating

14:19 and cooling activation. Instead, you have to go through the menu and then manually switch

14:22 it on and off. It's a little bit disappointing that while a lot of things are standard, a

14:26 lot of things are optional as well, such as safety features. So blind spot monitoring,

14:30 rear cross traffic alert, they're all part of a package that you have to option on. Same

14:33 with the heads up display. So very weird rationale behind that. And perhaps that's how they got

14:37 their price so low. But in terms of safety, AEB is low speed only. You have to pay for

14:42 that extra package to go high speed. Heated and cooled seats, as I mentioned, dual zone

14:46 climate control. You also have USB connectivity inside here. It's standard USB, so not USB-C,

14:52 which is what we're seeing a lot of manufacturers move towards. A heated steering wheel is standard,

14:57 perfect for those frosty, frosty mornings. If you look above me here, you have this really,

15:03 really nice suede headlining. I think this alone adds so much character and depth to

15:08 a car. It makes it feel very premium. That panoramic roof looks fantastic as well. It

15:13 has a blind that you push and hold to close. And then the connected services are operated

15:18 up here. If you ever run into an emergency, there's an SOS button hidden behind here that

15:23 will use the car's inbuilt SIM to call emergency services. Radar cruise control is also optional,

15:28 fitted to this car. And then the stereo is an 11 speaker Meridian sound system, 380 watts,

15:33 or you can go pay a little bit extra for the Bonkers sound system. But the standard one

15:37 actually sounds really good, so I don't think there's really any need to open up your wallets.

15:41 What does the key look like? It's a little bit dated now, it's looking a little old,

15:44 but this is what it looks like in effect. So lock, unlock, boot, headlights, and then

15:49 the emergency buzzer. It's a proximity key, so you just leave that in your pocket to start

15:53 the car and to open the doors as well. What about practicality? Let's start with storage.

15:57 Where are you going to put your phone? Phone easily fits in the cup holders. There's also

16:00 a nook up the front here with a rubber pad on it. No wireless charging though, which

16:04 is a little bit disappointing. What about bottle storage? It's got rubberised things

16:10 on the side there to stop the bottle moving around. And then inside the door, you've got

16:14 room for a bottle and other bits. Centre console, it's not massive, it's not overly deep. And

16:20 what about the glove box? Hey, that's tiny. Once you put the manual in there, you're not

16:24 really going to have much more room for anything else. Is it comfortable? Yes, the seats are

16:29 as comfortable as they are good looking. The seating position's really nice. I feel like

16:33 I'd like to spend time behind the wheel of this. I'm hoping it rides as well as it is

16:38 comfortable. But yeah, from this position right here, I'm liking what I'm feeling.

16:42 OK, backseat bandits. What's it like here? Let's start with knee room. It's pretty reasonable.

16:48 Not a great deal of toe room. But remember, I got my seat pretty far back as I always

16:53 do, but this seat is a chunky sports seat. So given that, you're actually afforded a

16:57 fair bit of legroom here. You're also getting rear air vents for those hot summer days.

17:01 You have seat heating for the two outboard seats. You also have USB charging, 5 volt

17:07 down there, and then a 12 volt outlet as well. Back pockets here. If you're getting kids

17:12 in the back, ISOFIX points for the seats. The seats themselves look so bloody cool.

17:17 They're like miniature versions of the front seats. So even if you've got your kids back

17:20 here, they're just going to love the texture and stuff. Although I don't know what's going

17:24 to happen when they drop some yogurt or some other runny, gooey liquid into these seats.

17:29 I reckon that's going to ruin them. Actually, let me know in the comments below, if you've

17:33 got kids and you've got a sporty car like this, what happens to your seats? How long

17:37 do they last before they obliterate them? Do you put seat covers on? Let me know how

17:40 it works. I don't have kids, so I'm not entirely sure.

17:43 Center armrest with two cup holders. These seats are pretty comfy as well. What about

17:49 headroom? Headroom is okay. I think a taller passenger is going to be touching the roof

17:53 there, but again, I love panoramic roofs, and if you've got kids, I think they're going

17:57 to love this as well. Almost forgot, bottle storage. Fits into the doors very easily.

18:02 What about that center armrest? You kind of got to cram it in there, but it's got those

18:07 rubber things just like the front, so things aren't going to move around all that easily.

18:12 Despite this being technically classed as a medium-sized SUV, the boot's pretty generous

18:16 because of that design at the back. 508 litres of cargo capacity here in this slot, and that

18:22 expands to a little over 1,700 litres when you drop the seats.

18:25 Under here, have a look at this. You've got like a racing space saver spare tyre. I love

18:30 that colour. Everyone's going to know that you've had a flat, and then you've got other

18:33 miscellaneous bits in here, such as your jack, and there's a battery hidden under there as

18:36 well, so it kind of evenly distributes the weight around the car.

18:39 In the back here as well, you've got a net on the side, a 12-volt outlet, some LED lights,

18:44 and then some flick switches here to drop the seats, but before I do that, I'll show

18:47 you how this comes out. So you pull these two down, give that a light pull. It's actually

18:56 not that easy to use. It's actually really not easy to use. You kind of have to battle

19:00 with it. There's no way for that to sit under the floor, so it kind of just has to sit there

19:04 or in your garage somewhere. I'll show you how these drop now as well. One pull of that,

19:10 they slam down with a bit of force, and then your luggage fits in pretty easily. I'm just

19:14 going to stick it on top of this cargo blind. It's a good-sized boot. You're going to be

19:17 able to fit prams and other bits and pieces in here if you're using this as a family car,

19:21 plus power tailgate as well.

19:23 We've hit the road in the F-PACE SVR, and before I show you what this sounds like when

19:28 it's screaming, I want to run you through just the basics of the package. Under the

19:32 bonnet is a 5.0-litre supercharged V8. It's a similar engine to the one that's used in

19:37 cars like the F-Type, and it really sits beautifully under the bonnet of this car. 405 kilowatts

19:43 of power and 680 newton metres of torque, that is a sensational set of figures. Then

19:50 on top of that, you have an 8-speed automatic transmission. It's not a dual-clutch, which

19:54 is great. It's nice and smooth, and it works well with the engine. You've got to remember

19:57 with supercharged engines, they kind of fill that torque gap that you're missing out on

20:02 with turbocharged engines. So, with a gearbox like this, you lean on the throttle, and it

20:06 doesn't have to dive back through the gears. It just uses the torque band and the supercharger

20:10 and that hardy V8 engine to just get it propelled along nicely. It's never hunting through

20:14 the gears all the time.

20:16 So despite the fact that the Speedo goes up to 360 kilometres an hour, it's slightly ambitious,

20:21 the top speed's actually just over 280 kilometres an hour, and the official 0-100 time is 4.3

20:29 seconds, and I'll show you what that looks like.

20:31 So what's that all going to cost you in terms of fuel economy? Okay, let's be quite frank

20:42 here, it's a supercharged V8 engine, so it's going to be pretty thirsty. Official figure

20:46 is 11.7 litres per 100 kilometres, but if I cycle through our average now, it's just

20:52 over 16, but that's been with some very noise-inducing driving, so I guess that's to be expected.

20:59 Let's talk about the ride. So, obviously we're on 22-inch alloy wheels, which doesn't help.

21:03 Fairly low-profile tyres as well. When it is in comfort mode, the adaptive dampers actually

21:08 do a good job of just smoothing everything out. It is a little on the sportier side of

21:12 comfortable, so you will feel some bumps, and there is a bit of noise coming into the

21:16 cabin from the tyres, but it's not over the top, it's not droning everything out. It is

21:20 very bearable.

21:22 Let's talk drive mode. So you have like a snow and ice mode, an eco mode, the comfort

21:27 mode, and then dynamic mode. So I'm going to flick it into dynamic. The second I do

21:31 that, the car firms up, steering gets a little heavier, all of the dials and the gauges here

21:36 go red. The car's ready for attack. It automatically opens the exhaust. You then can flick the

21:42 gear lever over to S mode. Immediately comes to life there. It is backfiring, that is so

21:52 cool. Okay, so let's give this a punch here. Man, it sounds unbelievable. Oh my god. Okay,

22:04 so I'm hearing supercharger whine, I'm getting crackles and pops from that exhaust.

22:08 So as I lean on the throttle here, it is so responsive.

22:18 It just goes hard. Every single time you push the throttle, it is responding. It is so razor

22:25 sharp. It feels nothing like any other V8 I've driven. The supercharger really brings

22:32 it to life and just has it ready for attack mode all the time. Okay, let's talk about

22:37 the brakes. Brake pedal feels good. It's a tiny bit spongy, but the brakes are pretty

22:43 big. We had the chance when we tested this ages and ages ago overseas to really attack

22:47 this through a mountain road, and the brakes held up really nicely. Sometimes the brakes

22:52 on Jags aren't that impressive, especially the carbon ceramic ones. This feels really

22:56 good though, and I can always confidently know that the pedal's there. Can't say the

23:00 same for the steering though. Even when the car is sort of moving around fairly slowly,

23:04 there's not a great deal of feel through the steering wheel. It's an electrically

23:07 assisted steering rack, but as the speed picks up a little bit, you're kind of not

23:11 getting that communication through the wheel that you would like to get. This is a sporty

23:16 SUV. I want to feel everything that's happening. In the XE, which is Jaguar's sedan, you have

23:20 so much communication. This on the other hand just feels a little bit dull and lacklustre.

23:25 You can lean in nicely though and feel confident in having enough traction. When you are in

23:29 that dynamic mode, it actually starts driving more like a rear-wheel drive car, so it's

23:33 sending more of the torque to the rear, and it only really activates that front axle when

23:37 you are starting to get a little bit of slip. So this feels very much like a big version

23:42 of the F-Type sports car. Compared to the normal F-Type, up the front there, the suspension

23:46 is 30% stiffer, and at the back it's 10% stiffer. It has a stiffer anti-roll bar, so

23:51 as you are ploughing through corners, it doesn't actually have much body roll at all. It always

23:56 feels like it's well-connected to the road, and you always feel like you have traction

23:59 too. So it is a very sporty package, and Jaguar delivers on that driving experience.

24:04 Where a BMW is quite on the hardcore end of sporty, this kind of sits in between, where

24:09 it feels comfortable but sporty enough at the same time with an unlimited amount of

24:14 theatrics from the exhaust.

24:27 In terms of the differential on the rear of this car, it uses an electronic active differential.

24:31 That means that it's able to vary the amount of locking from fully open all the way through

24:35 to fully closed. Then on top of that, it uses a brake-biased torque vectoring system, so

24:40 it's not a proper mechanical torque vectoring system. It uses brakes to simulate a torque

24:45 vectoring system, but that gives you that tucked-in feeling as you come around a corner.

24:48 It can limit the amount of torque that you're getting to a wheel, which kind of makes it

24:52 tuck in and shoot out of a corner a bit easier.

24:54 Okay, so let's go back into comfort mode here. We'll make it all quiet. It's nice

24:58 and serene. Let's talk about visibility. This is a fairly big SUV, but so easy to see out

25:03 of. Front visibility is great. The wing mirrors are fairly big as well, so you get excellent

25:07 visibility out the sides. This car has all of those options that I mentioned earlier

25:11 in terms of safety assist systems, so you've got the blind spot monitoring in the wing

25:14 mirror. Visibility out the back is good. The sport seats have a high neck on them, so they

25:19 do kind of interfere in the corners, but outside of that, it's an easy car to drive, and it

25:23 doesn't feel intimidating.

25:24 I feel that you have to talk with a deep voice with this because of the exhaust. It sounds

25:31 so good. I'm a massive fan of this car. The fact that it is just $140,000, I know that

25:36 in relative terms, that probably depends how much you earn and all that sort of stuff,

25:40 but in relative terms to other competitors in this segment, that is really good value

25:43 for money, especially with the car that you're getting, how hard it goes, and how easy it

25:47 is to live with as a daily driver. It's let down by a dated interior that was delayed

25:52 because of production delays, but I think you can live with that when you hear the exhaust

25:56 and feel the acceleration. It is a really special car to drive, and I'm a big, big fan

26:01 of it. So let me know in the comments below, what do you think of it? Did you buy one?

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