u/Enough_Brain_858 — reddlx

Check it out! Started with a MagBak wireless charging pad. Pricey, but it's the only one I could find that had magnets strong enough to hold a significant amount of weight, meaning it will hang on for the ride.

Attached it to the blank trim piece behind the armrest. Got a flat USB C to USB C cable (right angle on one side) and a 12V USB C flush power adapter. Put the wire through the back of the armrest.

Got a generic MagSafe magnet to stick on the back of my phone case and presto! Phone secured and wirelessly charging!

Placing the phone on the pad to get is charging is a little finicky, and you could definitely get a longer cable and put the charger up higher so you can place the phone on it in portrait (I just didn't want that much cable to show at the bottom) but it's been working great so far. Phone doesn't move or stop charging even on bumpy roads.

The 12v outlet supplies a lot more power than the USB ports and the charger has a built-in fan so your phone is much less likely to overheat when using Android Auto (which I have hooked up wirelessly using the AA Wireless 2 adapter tucked away in the armrest).

Who needs crappy OEM wireless charging pads that are badly placed, cook your phone, and barely charge it!

u/Enough_Brain_858 — 11 days ago

▲ 313 r/Jaguar

The exact color combo/spec I wanted (Bluefire exterior with the chrome delete but NOT blacked out everything, white/ebony interior, black diamond wheels (not the totally black ones). 2022 R, only 23K miles, $65,900 (before taxes). Already PPFed in all the right places and extremely well taken care of, looks almost brand new. Brakes and tires have thousands of miles on them yet. Clean Carfax, one owner, regular oil changes, no accidents.

People argue that the F-Type doesn't commit hard enough to being either a true sports car or a real GT, and therefore kind of fails at both. I can see what they're saying, but here's the thing. What seems to me that Jaguar had in mind with this car was to very deliberately not make it fall squarely into either of those categories, but to be more competent than most at both. Also, on the other end of the spectrum, rather than trying to make it a do-everything car, they made it a fun-everywhere car, and that's where it really shines.

True sports cars are fun on the track and twisty back roads, not so fun on most public roads and (especially) highways.

GTs are fun on most public roads and highways, not as fun on the track or twisty back roads.

The F-Type is a blast no matter where you're driving it.

I owned, leased, and test drove a LOT of cars over the last several years before I settled on this. There were 10/10 sports cars that were 5/10 GTs (M2, Corvette, Miata), and 10/10 GTs that were 5/10 sports cars (M8/850, S63, LC500).

To me, the F-Type R is a 9/10 sports car (800lbs lighter it would be 10/10) and a 9/10 GT (slightly more storage space and slightly softer suspension it would be 10/10). It doesn't do either perfectly, but it does both at the same time better than anything else I tried.

It's 3/4ths of the way to a supercar for nowhere near the money.

It's fairly reliable for what it is, and a good local specialist shop makes maintenance affordable.

It's easy to mod (with a surprising amount of aftermarket support), and takes those mods well.

And it's one of the best looking, best sounding vehicles ever.

At the end of the day, how a car makes you feel is important and, I think, becomes even more important as you get on in years, and as cars become more and more like appliances rather than experiences. So many cars these days are sterile, boring, over-engineered, numb, soulless, ugly, too much weight, too much tech...not special in any way.

This car is the opposite of all that. It's raw and raucous, it's connected while remaining confident, can grip, can slide, can burnout, can cruise. It's balanced, rowdy, sexy, mean, comfortable, and fun. It's truly a special car and one that I plan to keep for a long long time.

u/Enough_Brain_858 — 14 days ago

▲ 2 r/Jaguar

I know this has been discussed to death in minutiae, but I was interested in a more recent, board perspective from actual Jaguar owners.

Almost everyone always hates redesigns when they first see them; most later admit that they look better in-person, and a good percentage eventually come to like the refreshed design more than the original.

I see this everywhere with BMW (I currently have an M240 but am I getting an F-Type R soon). If you look at comments under videos from 2020/21 when the refreshed F-Type was first introduced, the vast majority of comments (80%+) are not so measured as, "I like the old design better", or "It's nice but I still prefer the old one". It's more like, "the new one is awful and disgusting, they completely ruined it, and whoever greenlit this should die."

But then, if you look at comments under videos from more recent MYs (2022/23/24), the vast majority are people saying that they love the redesign, that Jaguar nailed it, that they much prefer it to the original design as it makes that one look old/dated and the new one will look better for longer, etc. etc.

So, I'm curious. After having a lot of time with both versions out there, amongst actual Jaguar owners and F-Type enthusiasts, is the new look less hated now? Basically not hated at all? Is there a sizeable percentage that now prefers the new look over the old?

I imagine the old look is still held in higher regard overall, but I'm betting the margin is quite a bit smaller at this point, and that the new look has grown on people as new looks often seem to.

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u/Enough_Brain_858 — 17 days ago