Watch the Jaguar Project 7 F-Type go up the Goodwood hillcimb

Jaguar Project 7 F-Type (pictured) tackles the Goodwood FoS hillclimb

One of the surprises of the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed has been the debut of the Jaguar Project 7 car, an F-Type with the more bountiful 542bhp supercharged V8 and styling stolen from the D-Type. Jaguar are saying Project 7 isn’t heading for production, but we’re pretty sure most of what’s underneath it – principally the 542bhp version of the supercahrged V8 – is in a production F-Type R.

Perhaps surprisingly, fitting the 542bhp vresion of the V8 doesn’t seem to have done a lot for the F-Type’s sprint times, with 62mph coming up in 4.1 seconds, just 0.1 seconds quicker than the 495bhp engine in the standard Jaguar F-Type V8.

By contrast, fitting the 542bhp V8 to the XKR improved 0-62mph from 4.8 in the XKR to 4.4 in the S, so we’d expected a similar improvement for the F-Type which would have seen it dipping well below 4 seconds 0-62mph. Still, perhaps that’ll happen in the production version.

The Project 7 F-Type doesn’t look as stunning going up the hillclimb as the D-Type would have done, but it’s still a good looking car and it does make a ncie noise.

But should whoever was driving have left the traction control on? The F-Type does look a bit wayward in the video.

By Cars UK