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NARDO RING TEST TRACK ITALY

700 hectares of land with a 6.2 km long handling circuit and a 12.5 km long oval

HIGH-SPEED STABILITY TESTING

NÜRBURGRING NORDSCHLEIFE GERMANY

DIFFERENTIALS TESTING

Asphalt and concrete mixed surface. 20.8 km long with 73 turns

F-TYPE first took to the road in the virtual world of Jaguar’s Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) systems ensuring that all components underwent extensive development and testing before being committed to the physical testing process. Engineers produced a series of virtual prototypes to realistically simulate the behaviour of complex mechanical systems allowing them to analyse multiple variations until the optimum design was achieved. For example, using a technique first used in the aerospace industry, aerodynamic testing took place in a virtual wind tunnel with Computational Fluid Dynamics running on high speed supercomputers. During its virtual life, F-TYPE completed half a million analyses, requiring 10 million computer processor hours and creating 300TB of data. The CAE development process was one of the key contributing factors in delivering F-TYPE’s exhilarating performance and responsiveness. PUT TO THE TEST

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