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" The Jaguar F-Type is one of those rare cars that can get away with murder because of how good it looks. Luckily for it, it doesn&amp;#039;t commit any mortal sins\u2014it&amp;#039;s wonderful to drive and there isn&amp;#039;t a person on our staff who wouldn&amp;#039;t beg, steal, or lie to own one.  There has been precisely one disappointment with the convertible, and that was during our Road &amp;amp;amp; Track Performance Car of the Year testing. We emerged from the test still loving the Jag, of course, but decided that while it was brilliant in normal driving and an absolute howl to pitch sideways around a race track, it sort-of went soft and mushy in that oh-so-important seven-tenths to nine-tenths range.  After a very quick drive of the new F-Type coupe, we think that problem has been solved.  The top version of the no-top F-Type is the V-8 S model, which uses a 495-hp supercharged V-8. The one we tested ripped to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds and through the quarter-mile in a smoldering 12.0 seconds at 120 mph.   And so the last thing we thought it needed was more power. However, the top-version of the coupe gains 55 hp and loses about 45 lb. And in place of the &amp;quot;S&amp;quot;, its name gets an &amp;quot;R&amp;quot;.  That all means, of course, that it uses the 550-hp version of the supercharged V-8 we know from the XRF-S and XJR sedans. READ/WATCH THIS: What does a Star Wars TIE Fighter have to do with the Jaguar F-Type?  More importantly than the power gain and weight loss is that the coupe&amp;#039;s chassis is some 80 percent stiffer than the convertible&amp;#039;s. At 33 Kilonewtons per degree of twist, it&amp;#039;s somewhere in the same ballpark as a Porsche 911&amp;#039;s body.  As a result, Jaguar&amp;#039;s engineers were able to tweak the suspension slightly, and around Barcelona&amp;#039;s Circuit de Catalunya, the F-Type Coupe exhibited no rubberyness, and no mushiness. It wants to go sideways all the time\u2014and in all the right ways, just like the coupe. But the steering remains precise at the limit, and should you exercise restraint with your right foot, the F-Type will shrug off its minor understeer in favor of a neat drift.   The stability control can be a bit over-protective, so ultimately it needs to be turned off when on track, but the Coupe is so immensely well-behaved that it&amp;#039;s an unnecessary safety net.  We didn&amp;#039;t have the opportunity to drive the newest Jaguar on the road (that&amp;#039;ll happen in a few months) but we suspect it&amp;#039;ll be easily as enjoyable as the convertible. It&amp;#039;s likely we&amp;#039;ll complain that you can&amp;#039;t see anything out the back. The coupe retains a high bulkhead between the passenger and cargo compartments, which is level with the rear window. That glass dips only as low as belt height on a tall man\u2014so we&amp;#039;ll remain thankful for the backup camera.  Then again, with 550 supercharged horses\u2014and their instantly-available thrust\u2014it won&amp;#039;t much matter what&amp;#039;s behind you. There are few cars faster than the Jaguar F-Type R Coupe. And even fewer that look better. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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