√2022 Jaguar F-Pace Buyers Guide

Here’s our guide to navigating the variants and options on offer with the 2022 Drive Car of the Year Best Medium Luxury SUV.

Continual refinement has made the Jaguar F-Pace better and better over time. Now, with more equipment lower in the range and a hugely impressive media system, it’s the best it has ever been.

The F-Pace range offers a four, six or eight-cylinder petrol and six-cylinder diesel engine choice, along with four trim grades (which vary depending on engine choice) of S, SE, HSE and SVR.

Pricing starts from $79,461 (before options and on-road costs) for a 184kW/365Nm 2.0-litre turbocharged F-Pace R-Dynamic S and climbs to $145,146 for the 405kW/700Nm supercharged V8 F-Pace SVR.

OUR PICK

Our pick: Jaguar F-Pace 2.0-litre P250 R-Dynamic SE (184kW/365Nm turbocharged petrol from $84,142 before on-road costs)

While the six-cylinder engines are excellent (and the V8 SVR a proper weapon) the well-specified SE-grade P250 F-Pace with the 2.0-litre petrol engine provides just the right amount of Jaguar at a surprisingly affordable price.

The SE trim includes 20-inch wheels and a selection of up to seven colours at no additional cost (but a further 18-choices at an optional spend between $510 for a premium metallic to a whopping $14,600 for a special effect tone). We’re a bit disappointed that British Racing Green is an $11,050 choice, but would opt for an equally slick (and popular) Santorini Black as part of our build.

You score LED headlamps with high-beam assist, heated mirrors, a power tailgate, memory seats, interior lighting, adaptive cruise control, blind spot detection and lane-keeping assist as standard equipment.

Check out this configuration on the Jaguar F-Pace configurator here.

The $1430 Black-Pack works well with the Santorini paint, and although a little unnecessary, the $1560 upgrade to 21-inch wheels makes the F-Pace look pretty slick.

We’ll add the $4420 tilt-slide panoramic roof and $640 black roof rails too.

Inside, the no-cost Mars-Red leather trim is just delicious, and the $1110 upgrade to heated seats is a must, as is the $1560 Meridian Sound System.

In typical Jaguar fashion, there are infinite ways to alter and personalise your F-Pace build, and while a hands-free kicker on the boot, head-up display and surround-view camera are great, you don’t really need them. That said, many of these items can be added for a few hundred dollars when ‘building’ your car, so they aren’t hard to include.

Our spec runs to a total of $8050 in exterior and $1110 in interior options for a drive away price (in Victoria) of $103,735.

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