Driving Jaguar’s F-Type sports coupe upgraded late last year – gone are the four-cylinder and V6 supercharged engines dropped in favour of a 5.0-litre supercharged V8 range – I drove the P450 rear drive Coupe not inexpensive, now $166,048 in standard trim – with 331kW of power, eight speed automatic, several configurable drive modes, and an adaptive electronic suspension.

The F-Type P450 a dual personality Jaguar sport Coupe – a docile two-seater that when provoked becomes a hard-nosed animal much like its namesake with very strong performance, its active quad exhaust opening in sports mode to a very inspiring note – 20-inch alloy wheels and 35-series tyres great on a smooth surface providing top level sports handling but offset by a sharp ride response on poor surfaces.

The interior is some ways is showing its age – interior room tight but offering good ergonomics and an excellent infotainment display. However, despite a number of active safety elements like lane keep assist, driver fatigue and attention monitoring it doesn’t offer active cruise control, only manual cruise control with a speed limiter.

Above all else the Jaguar F-Type Coupe has simply gorgeous styling, even more so perhaps in the Convertible variant – in yellow a stunning sports car, rare too, just one F-Type hitting our roads nationally in the first quarter.

I’m David Berthon.

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