Jaguar F-Pace SVR If you aren’t familiar with the SVR badge, it’s used to denote Jaguar and Land Rover models that have been breathed on by the company’s ‘special vehicle operations’ department. A bit like AMG does for Mercedes.
To mark it out from lesser versions of the F-Pace, the SVR has more aggressive looking front and rear bumpers with larger air intakes, along with extra vents on the bonnet and in the wings. Jaguar claims that none of it’s for show: it’s all to help that mighty V8 engine breathe properly or, in the case of the wing vents, to help cool the huge brakes tasked with stopping this two-tonne SUV.
Performance & drive With 542bhp, this BMW X3-sized SUV can hit 62mph from a standstill in just 4.3 seconds - only slightly longer than it takes the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio and Mercedes GLC 63 AMG to do the same sprint. But it’s the glorious V8 bellow the SVR makes when doing so that’s more intoxicating, especially when you switch the sports exhaust to its loudest setting. It doesn’t even abate when you lift off the accelerator pedal, because you get angry pops and crackles from the exhausts.
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SUVs are never as agile as conventional sports cars but, compared with its direct rivals, the F-Pace SVR is good fun through the corners, too. It’s slightly bigger than the Stelvio, so unsurprisingly leans a little more through tight twists and turns, although is still surprisingly capable and its precise, deliciously weighted steering allows you to thoroughly enjoy the experience. There’s plenty of road noise - as with the GLC 63 AMG and Porsche Macan. If you want something more hushed, we’d recommend looking at a luxury SUV rather than one this sporty.
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