You can do all that, but I’m not sure you should. Really, there’s one button that deserves attention, and it’s for the switchable active exhaust system. Usually, that’s deactivated when driving normally — though the F-Type still sounds pretty darn peachy nonetheless — but it’s either enabled when you switch to Sport mode or when your baser auditory urges get the better of you. Then, the soundtrack really gets good.
Up to around 3,500 rpm, the F-Type grunts and growls pleasingly. Kick past that — which is, coincidentally or not, when peak torque arrives in the R75 — and all hell breaks loose. Louder, certainly, but also more raucous and borderline unhinged. Jaguar calls it a “distinctive crackle and pop,” but that’s like describing a machine gun’s rat-a-tat as “a little feisty.”
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Heads turn, eyes widen, and passengers — assuming they’re not pre-warned — give you either the evil eye or a come-hither stare, depending on how alluring they find braying excess. Jaguar does have a Quiet Start feature, but this is quiet by comparative degrees. Nobody will ever describe the F-Type as subtle.
