The Jaguar F-Pace SVR

The Jaguar F-Pace SVR is more sports car than SUV

Jaguar Land Rover has sent the SUV F-Pace for revision in the in-house tuning forge. The Jaguar F-Pace SVR is a massive powerhouse and more sporty than off-road vehicle.

He starts to fear the premium SUV competition. He wants to leave them at the traffic lights, look better and even more exclusive: the Jaguar F-Pace SVR. springerprofessional.de, ATZ and MTZ have driven the strongest and fastest F-Pace.

On the roads on the northern edge of the Black Forest we were allowed to move the F-Pace from the in-house tuning factory of the British car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover. First of all, the SVR with its more distinctive front with larger air intakes and the air outlets on the bonnet, the lower side sills and the roof spoiler looks significantly more massive than a standard F-Pace. Powered by a 5.0-liter V8, supercharged, the 2.1-tonne predator delivers a whopping 405 kilowatts (550 hp) of power, accelerating from zero to 100 km / h in 4.3 seconds thanks to 680 Newton-meters of torque ,

Brachial acceleration in the Jaguar F-Pace SVR
You really do not have to say many words about the acceleration. In the SUV she acts brutally when switching on the Dynamic mode. Without using this attribute inflationary, but also the sound from the four titanium tailpipes is brutal, especially when the standard installed active flap control in the rear muffler is opened by pressing a button. The goose bumps greetings.

Coupled with the sports position of the gear selector lever (the Jaguar now used instead of the wheel), the Jaguar F-Pace SVR mutates into a sports car in SUV format. Responsiveness, steering, damper control - everything makes you want to race. And first the stability of the vehicle in motion! For example, the traffic light in the long curve. Despite the force that distributes the all-wheel drive mostly on the rear axle and only with impending instability also up to half on the front axle steers, experienced the driver when starting from a standing position no tearing, neither to the right nor to the left. He retains perfect control over the wheels. The four-wheel drive with the Borgwarner transfer case ("torque-on-demand" all-wheel drive) regulates the power so targeted to the rubber that even a squeaking is heard.

Jaguar's performance SUV F-Pace SVR delivers 405 kilowatts (550 hp) of power and 680 Newton-meters of torque. They catapult the almost 2.1-ton vehicle from stand to 100 km / h in 4.3 seconds.
It's only when the curve is too tight that the physical limits get a bit closer, then the F-Pace understeers a bit. When accelerating out of the curve, the rear typically has an axle with an electronically active differential; prepares a lot of fun for the more experienced driver.

Well-known V8 engine from the Range Rover Sport
The F-Pace SVR's Jaguar Land Rover SVO (Special Vehicle Operations) department ensures the driver's broad grin. By 2018, the F-Pace maximum 380 hp was strong (then abolished via downsizing 3.0-liter supercharged gasoline engine). SVO has just planted the big SUV with a twin-vortex compressor from the Range Rover Sport "Performance SUV". Although the 5.0-liter engine in the Jaguar delivers "only" 550 hp instead of a maximum of 57Precise power transmission
As perfect you have to evaluate the interaction of the entire powertrain. The powerful V8 in conjunction with ZF's eight-speed automatic transmission leaves nothing to be desired in terms of power transmission precision. Whether in standard or in sports tuning, the converter automatic from Friedrichshafen always seems to know in advance what the driver has in mind next. The delay is provided by a sport brake system with four piston calipers and two-piece brake discs with a diameter of 395 millimeters.

The F-Pace SVR, however, can be transformed into a tame cat by pressing a button. About the well-known driving mode buttons offer the comfort or even the Eco mode a much more family-friendly handling. However, even the standard setting of the adaptive suspension is already pretty tight. For ailing country or city streets, the vehicle is not made. Even less for off-road routes, even though the spring rate has been increased by 30 percent at the front and 10 percent at the rear.

Little changes in the interior
Overall, the interior looks very high-quality, the 14-way adjustable sports seats offer excellent lateral support. Only very tall people should have a problem with the rigid and deep headrests. In the course of the development of the SVR Jaguar would have been able to orient itself more closely to the new interior such as in the facelift XE. With the fresher and higher-quality design as in the business sedan and the adoption of more new elements than just the sports shift selector lever, the British could have emphasized the premium claim significantly.

As a premium sports SUV, the F-Pace SVR goes into battle with other power-loving 4x4 vehicles such as the Mercedes-AMG GLC 63S, the BMW X3 M Competition or the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio. On the list is the F-Pace SVR with just under € 100,000 base price. If you have played through the online configurator, are quickly synonymous around 118,000 € total price on the screen, even without various accessories.

Conclusion: Although you should drive with the F-Pace SVR rather over the Nordschleife, the car offers too much practicality, as that he really wanted to move as a sports car through the Green Hell. A luxury problem. Apart from the mentioned minor details, the only real flaw for us after the first impression is the fact that we could not drive this Jaguar any longer.5 in the Range Rover Supercharged SVR, it brings the smaller and lighter brother a slightly higher top speed of 283 km / h (Range Rover Sport SVR: 280 km / h) and a 0.2 seconds better acceleration.