Jaguar¹ Land Rover is to build a successor to its previous sports cars called the F-type at its factory in Birmingham.

捷豹陆虎将在伯明翰的工厂中生产F型跑车来接替以往的车型。

Jaguar's F-type will be based on the C-X16 concept car and be the heir to its iconic sports cars of the past
It will launch as a two-seater convertible²（敞篷车） with petrol engines made at Jaguar's Castle Bromwich plant with the design to be unveiled this year, the carmaker said.

As the iconic E-type was last made in 1975, Jaguar said it had been "absent for too long" from making sports cars.

The car will go on sale in mid-2013.

Jaguar has previously³ described it as "the spiritual successor to the E-type", which had its debut⁴ more than 50 years ago.

"The C-type, D-type and E-type Jaguars⁵ were all sports cars that held true to this principle in their era, and the F-type will hold true to that same principle in its time, a time that is soon to arrive," said Ian Callum, Jaguar's director of design.

The design will be based on the C-X16 concept that it unveiled in September 2011.

"The reaction to it has been so positive that we've accelerated our development of an all-new Jaguar sports car," the carmaker said.

The C-X16 can accelerate from zero to 62mph in 4.4 seconds, yet emit just 165g/km of CO2, Jaguar said at the time.

That concept car was also fitted with a Kers system, short for Kinetic⁶ Energy Recovery System, that has been developed by the Formula 1 industry.

The system allows a 1.6kWh lithium-ion battery pack, mounted behind the seats for weight distribution reasons, to be charged through a rear axle electro-hydraulic brake energy regeneration system.