The Jaguar F-Type R Will Lose 440 Pounds to Become the Club Sport

A huge weight drop with a hugely powerful engine certainly sounds fun.

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The Jaguar F-Type R Coupe is already an impressive vehicle, and we can't wait to try it out. The 5.0L supercharged V8's 550 hp can already send the F-Type to 60 mph in four seconds even and all the way up to 186 mph. It's fast.

Of course, Jaguar seems to want to make it even faster. The transformation into the F-Type Club Sport would require a serious diet and the loss of 440 lbs, or about 12% of the car's total weight. This, along with no doubt massively improving the handling, would reduce the 0-60 time down to 3.5 seconds. Sounds brilliant to us. Carbon fiber panels would probably be the first way that Jaguar would start to drop this weight.

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[via Motoring]

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