We’ve been here before with Jaguar and Porsche’s compact sports cars. Germany won the first couple of CarAdvice battles, when the Boxster S pipped the F-Type V6 S convertible in 2013 and the Cayman GTS defeated the F-Type S coupe two years later. Honours were then even in October 2016 when we couldn’t split the 718 Boxster and F-Type V6 S.

Here, however, the Brit is searching for its first victory with the lightest and most affordable version of the F-Type yet: the $107,012 entry-level coupe that’s been created by slotting one of Jaguar’s Ingenium turbocharged petrol engines under the bonnet.

That makes for a perfectly matched engine contest, of course, after Porsche in 2016 replaced the Boxster/Cayman flat-six engines with four-cylinders also positioned horizontally (while 718 to the badging).
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