Jaguar plotting F-TYPE sedan

Jaguar design boss Ian Callum has revealed that a four-door coupe version of the F-TYPE is on the cards during an interview with Australian media at this week's Geneva motor show.

Responding to a question from motoring.com.au on whether a four-door F-TYPE 'coupe' inspired by newly unveiled Mercedes-AMG GT 4-door could be on the cards, Callum exclaimed: "Oh, I couldn't possible comment, imagine that!" before his PR handler injected and said "we look at everything".

Callum then went on to say: "The notion of four doors is interesting because the idea of four-door coupes came out originally with Jaguar. That's what they were - four-door coupe.

"And then Mercedes latched onto the idea with the CLS and created this genre of car which was really right for Jaguar," said the Jaguar design boss.

He then said that a four-door coupe is Jaguar's "rightful place" and that the "principle of a four-door coupe makes a lot of sense".

Callum went on to say that such a car would also reflect the growing trend that sports cars with four seats would have four doors.

If a four-door F-TYPE style model is in development, instead of being based on the small two-seat sport car's riveted and bonded aluminium chassis it's more likely to be based on the Jaguar XF's larger aluminium-intensive iQ platform, which also underpins the XE and F-PACE.

Just as the AMG GT 4-door is based not on the GT Coupe but the E-Class sedan, sharing the XF platform will also significantly reduce the costs involved with stretching the F-TYPE.

If the British car-maker doesn't badge its four-door coupe as an F-TYPE, the new creation could provide the basis for a replacement for the flagship XK coupe that was never replaced after it was axed in 2014.

According to Callum, modern chassis technology could enable such a car to be completely pillar-less, perhaps hinting that the large Jag coupe could even emerge with rear-hinged rear doors.