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2 2 0 S I M P LY A B U DH A B I It is perhaps from the rear perspective that you can most clearly see the shadows of the old E-Type. There’s something about the shape of the taillights adorning that muscular form that flows directly from the 60s to the here and now. The outline is distinctly familiar and the way that they sit high on the haunches has real echoes of the last viewmany drivers of lesser cars caught of the E-Type as it disappeared over the horizon. A view I’m sure many people will have of today’s Jaguar. All of the car’s crisp lines seem to pay homage to the marque’s real glory years and suggest that those days have returned. It really is a beautiful car, marrying sheer grace and elegance to a look of barely restrained power and just a hint of the force that this beauty can release if driven to its full potential. While those lines may draw on the past, what forms the F-Type’s skin is decidedly modern. All of the body is formed in super-lightweight aluminiumwhich wraps beautifully around a similarly all-aluminium monocoque, boasting all the strength and lightness of that unique material. Jaguar’s designers and engineers have certainly used the alloy to their best advantage, crafting a body that not only looks like it’s heading for the racetrack but cuts through the air that way too. It’s a tremendous meeting of form and function and it adds up to a car that really is very hard to match in its class. Climb inside and you’re in for another treat. I use the word ‘climb’ carefully, as you don’t so much sit in the F-type as climb aboard and settle into the body-hugging leather seats below. Look ahead over the impressive dash and, as your eye follows the line of the bonnet, there’s a slightly overwhelming sense that you’re looking over a shark’s nose, with all the air of aggressive purpose that suggests. The cabin really is a rather wonderful place to be, with Jaguar addressing any criticism of