The Jaguar F-type is already impeccably handsome—all crouched down in a prowl of potential energy ready to pounce at a moment's notice. But what if you want more? More attitude, more downforce, more blessed carbon fiber? European tuning house Startech has you, and your F-type, covered—in scads of carbon fiber.
The oddly named Startech Refinement package brings, basically, all of the carbon fiber you could ever want to festoon your Coventry cat. Starting at the front, Startech replaced the lower front bumper with a deeper, more pronounced bottom lip, trailing into aerodynamic features ahead of the front wheel openings that Startech says will reduce front axle lift at speed. Hood scoops and side-view mirrors are similarly bedecked in the miraculous woven material.
The front fenders are entirely new panels, constructed from—naturally—carbon fiber, and featuring a carbon fiber strake aft of the front wheel opening that "suggests an air outlet." Air, it seems, does not follow this body feature's suggestion. The F-type's flanks are equally carbon-fiber-ized, with deep rocker-panel extensions that flow up into a swoop just ahead of the rear wheel opening.
Out back, Startech binned the factory rear bumper insert in favor of—you guessed it—a replacement that positively gleams with the woven mystery of carbon fiber. The add-on features daisy-drilled quad exhaust tips to channel the aural assault of, one hopes, the supercharged V-8 of the F-type R. A central rear LED fog lamp evokes the lighting conventions of Formula 1 racers.
The look is all pulled together by a suitably massive set of 21-inch wheels. The custom Startech Monostar S forged wheels, 9 inches wide with 255-width tires up front, 10.5 inches at the back wearing 305 rubber, were designed specifically for the F-type, with a delicious amount of concavity especially at the rear.
Inside, Startech saw fit to ensconce the Jag's occupants in floor-to-ceiling diamond-stitched leather, presumably because the tuning house couldn't find a way to fashion upholstery out of carbon fiber. Startech says the customer's choice of wood or, yes, carbon fiber trim can be selected for the center console, and the door sills wear the by-now-expected electroluminescent scuff plates with an illuminated Startech logo.
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Startech hasn't yet set a price for all this weapons-grade material madness, though the hot-rod house says the full kit can be fitted to any coupe or roadster variant of the F-type. The full kit will be on display at the Geneva Auto Show next week. As for what we'd fit it to? Might we suggest the 623-horse Hennessey HPE600 F-type R?
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