The last Jaguar F-TYPE sports car will be made at the Castle Bromwich factory 50 years to the day since the last Jaguar E-type drove off the production line. Both cars were the essence of Jaguar’s sporting ideals distilled into a single gentleman’s tourer. Like the last E-type, the last F-TYPE will immediately be conveyed to the Jaguar Heritage collection.

Perhaps my personal favourite Jaguar of all time, the last F-TYPE is a 5.0 litre V8 Convertible in Giola Green with a black roof and a Tan Windsor leather interior, the same combination as seen in our final Jaguar F-Type Review HERE. The combination is similar to the last 5.3 litre V12 E-type Series III Convertible built in 1974 and registered as HDU 555N.

Seen by many as the pinnacle of Jaguar’s petrol-powered sports cars, the final F-TYPE will be handed over to the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (JDHT). These custodians of Jaguar’s history curate a collection of some of the most beautiful cars ever made, so it is fitting that the F-TYPE  will join its E-type predecessor in the official Jaguar Heritage collection. The F-TYPE will not sit unloved in a dusty museum though, it will take part in a series of special events and activities this year.

ABOVE: The final E-type and F-TYPE Jaguars roll off the line

F-TYPE and E-type marked the end of their production on almost the same day, and both heralded a new era. For E-type, it was the birth of the Jaguar XJ-S, and the last F-TYPE, it signals the electric evolution, the four-door electric GT to be revealed in 2025.

Rawdon Glover, Managing Director, said: “The singular vision of Jaguar’s founder, Sir William Lyons, was to always be future-facing, relevant and original. This has been the foundation of Jaguar through almost a century of evolving contemporary British luxury.

 

Today, as we celebrate F-TYPE and our 75-year history of innovative Jaguar sports cars, we are also looking forward to the beginning of a new era. We will reimagine and elevate the Jaguar brand that will be focused on growing client intimacy and engagement, underpinned by our purpose to inspire like no other.”

F-TYPE was first launched as a convertible in 2013, followed a year later by the coupe. It was was Jaguar’s first two-seat sports car in almost 40 years. It garnered much praise including being named 2013 World Car Design of the Year.

87,731 F-TYPEs have been made, available until early 2025. Of the 150 F-TYPE ZP Edition coupés to be built, 24 will come to Australia. It may seem like millions of E-types  were built, but JDHT records show that Jaguar made 72,528 E-types, around 15,000 fewer than F-TYPE. The final run of 50 E-types were painted black, except the second-to-last car which was British Racing Green for a private Jaguar collector.

It is with mixed feeling that we say goodbye to F-TYPE, but it will now live at the JDHT facility at Gaydon, along with the last series XE, XF, and XF Sportbrake, all of which recently ended production. Following the departure of the F-TYPE, XE, XF Sportbrake, Jaguar also says goodbye to the beautiful sounds of its fossil-fuelled fleet.

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