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Jaguar F-TYPE - Your chance to comment on the Design!
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May 17th 2002 F-Type Development Halted!
Details are sparse but Jaguar announce they have deferred the planned production of the F-Type due to 'changes to the sequence of future new product introductions'. You are welcome to leave comments on this announcement via this page! It is now unlikely that we'll ever see the F-Type! Maybe we will be fobbed off with a 'more commercially viable' convertible X-Type instead? What do you think?From a Jag-lovers user comment
"I'm stunned! I cannot see how anyone considers the rehashed 2001 design drawings as an improvement on Helfet's original! It's a sadly modern disease to imagine that a person's individual gift and unique craft can somehow be bettered or made more contemporarily relevant by playing with it.
"I think I feel all the more strongly about this because, maybe unwittingly, Ford could not have chosen a more inappropriate design to play around with.
"Every car maker - and Britain's tie to the specialist sportster is deeper than most - would die for Helfet's skills and his eye. It would be the corporate crime of this century if Ford ignores them"
[Select image to view original F-TYPE 2000 Concept Press Pack]
[Select image to see details of the Concept cockpit]
[Select image to view F-TYPE 2001 production announcement Press Pack]
'F-TYPE represents one of the greatest design challenges in Jaguar history.
It must capture the spirit, sensuousness and passion of the original concept, reflect Jaguar’s future direction and meet real
world packaging and performance requirements. The challenge is to create a true 21st century successor
to the E-type, the icon of the 60s'