CAR MEETS ROAD
I amlin, West Virginia, is nowhere. Which is exactly the place Jaguar sports-car development has been for the past 40 years. The XK? That, good sir, is a GT. That anything small and uncompromisingly sporty could or would grow in the sizable shadow of the E-type has long seemed impossible, what with Jaguar's spasmodic management over the decades. Yet here is the 2014 F-type, a proper two-seater with a folding fabric roof whose ancestral link to that last great Jaguar roadster is its audaciousness of spirit as much as its naming convention.
Fashioned primarily from aluminum, as were some Es, the F-type's lightweight metal is welded, riveted, and bonded for the unibody and cast for the suspension, with huge sheets of it stamped and wrapped tightly around…