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November 2016

Better-Behaved Bad-Boy Brit.

- Frank Markus

Jaguar F-Type SVR

2016 marked Jaguar’s third at bat with the F-Type. Its first, a 488-hp S-spec roadster, finished in fourth place in 2013 on account of iffy transmission logic and power oversteer that was mostly fun and mostly controllable but nonetheless excessive. The second, a 550-hp R-spec coupe, finished ninth in 2014 because the oversteer only got 62 hp worse.

We had high hopes that this year’s 575-hp SVR coupe might surge ahead in the rankings with all-wheel drive taming the tail-happiness, but from the first runs up State Route 198, Loh and others were scribbling in their notes: “Glad to be alive! Wants to enter every corner tail first.” Walton was particularly chagrined, as he’d pronounced such behavior tamed after the SVR’s launch.

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