Jaguar told us that it will build only 250 copies of its new F-Type Project 7 roadster, 65 of which are allocated for its home market. However, if you are in the UK and you fancy one of these retro-designed beauties, you are too late to the party.
Apparently, all 65 units of the F-Type Project 7 have already been spoken for, with another hundred buyers on the British waiting list, according to sources from the company cited in an Autocar magazine report. That’s despite the fact that the car has a £135,000 (€169,693) price tag in the UK.
Jaguar will also sell the Project 7 in the European Union, United States and Japan, with each of these markets expected to get a similar allocation of vehicles. Deliveries will begin in the UK and EU first, followed by the US. As for Japan, Jaguar engineers are still working on making the car legal for the market.
The car made its debut in left-hand drive form for the EU at the Le Mans Classic over the past weekend, after its world premiere at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The F-Type Project 7 will be unveiled for the US market at the Pebble Beach Automotive Week starting on August 13.
Jaguar will start building customer cars at the end of the year, with production expected to continue into 2015. The location where the car will be built has not been yet announced.
Billed as the fastest, most powerful production Jaguar ever made, the 567hp F-Type Project 7 has lapped the Nürburgring “quite a bit quicker” than the F-Type R Coupe’s time of 7min 39sec, according to JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations executive Harry Metcalfe.
By Dan Mihalascu
PHOTO GALLERY
