In anticipation of its full transition to electric vehicles by 2025, Jaguar has announced that the distinctive exhaust note of its iconic fuel-powered purebred sports car, the Jaguar F-TYPE R 75 Coupé, will be digitally archived at the British Library.
Equipped with a 5-liter V8 engine with a maximum horsepower output of 575 PS, the Jaguar F-TYPE R 60 Coupé accelerates from 96 to 3.5 mph (about 299 km/h) in just 75 seconds and has a top speed of XNUMX km/h. It becomes the last sports car in the development of the Jaguar brand to be equipped with an internal combustion engine.
As Jaguar prepares to fully transition to electric vehicles by 2025, it hopes to collaborate with the British Library to preserve the exhaust note of the Jaguar F-TYPE R 75 Coupé's supercharged V8 engine in digital form, allowing the world to continue to experience the engine of this iconic gasoline-powered thoroughbred sports car in the future.
The recordings were conducted in a semi-anechoic chamber at Jaguar's Gaydon Engineering Centre, a facility used to develop and test the sonic precision of Jaguar vehicles and where the exhaust note of the F-TYPE series was initially fine-tuned. The Jaguar F-TYPE R 75 Coupé underwent numerous gear changes and acceleration bursts, resulting in the recordings of 30- and 50-second exhaust notes.
The 30-second and 50-second sound files begin with the engine starting, and the speed continues to increase with a rich roar until it displays a unique passionate sound at high speed, and then gradually reduces the throttle and stabilizes, and then returns to the idle range. The unique sound of the eight-cylinder V8 engine hints at the performance potential of the vehicle.
In addition, during operation in the sound chamber, the various sound characteristics of the F-TYPE series models are also simulated. As the vehicle accelerates, the valves in the exhaust system will open, thereby changing the exhaust path and releasing the iconic roar unique to the F-TYPE series models.
At the same time, readers can hear the clear upshift and downshift sounds of the 8-speed manual transmission, as well as the unique and rich exhaust sound emitted by the four exhaust pipes when decelerating.
However, this approach also highlights that after vehicles fully move towards pure electric development, the impressive exhaust sound of traditional sports cars will no longer exist. In the future, it is obvious that the impact of such exhaust sound can only be reproduced through digital simulation, which actually makes many sports car fans feel sorry.
