2011 Jaguar E-Type Sports Celebrates 50th Anniversary

2011 Jaguar E-Type sports celebrates 50th anniversary, Jaguar is adulatory the 50th ceremony of the E-Type, the brand’s iconic sports car with contest all year. One of the events, so far, is not the addition of a new E-Type, as abundant as the brand’s admirers would adulation to see it.

If there is to be one, it’s acceptable to actualization up at the Geneva Motor Actualization and the New York Auto Actualization and the Goodwood Festival of Acceleration area Jag says its traveling to celebrate. Nothing says Jaguar like the E-Type. It debuted in Geneva in 1961. The car authentic the sleek, low-slung, able-bodied actualization that still defines Jag.

“Half a aeon of advance has not beneath the acceptation of the E-Type,” said Mike O’Driscoll, Managing Administrator Jaguar Cars and Chairman Jaguar Heritage. “It was a awareness if it was launched, and charcoal Jaguar’s a lot of constant and iconic symbol.”

E-Type owners accept included Steve McQueen, Brigitte Bardot, and Tony Curtis. The E-Type was aswell accepted as the XK-E in the United States. That’s a 1970 archetypal in the photo, above. A absolute of 72,520 E-Types were produced. Of those, 83% were exported from England. Other fun facts:

* The E-type’s straight-six engine had powered Jaguar to 5 Le Mans victories in the 1950s and by 1961 in 3.8-litre anatomy produced 265 horsepower, giving the car a top acceleration in balance of 150 afar per hour.

* At barrage the E-Type amount $5,595 for the Auto or “OTS” (Open two-seater) and $5,895 for the Auto or “FHC” (Fixed arch coupe) this included accepted wire wheels. Adjusted for aggrandizement in 2011 dollars, the E-type would amount about $41,000 for the auto and $43,000 for the coupe.

* The E-Type’s altogether ample bodywork was the plan of Malcolm Sayer, an aeriform architect by training who aswell activated his aerodynamic ability in abstraction the beforehand Le Mans-winning C and D-Type racers.

* The E-type remained in assembly for 14 years, affairs added than 70,000 units, authoritative it Europe’s aboriginal banal sports car.

“It is absurd to enlarge the appulse the E-Type had if it was apparent in 1961,” said Ian Callum, Jaguar architecture director. “Here was a car that encapsulated the spirit of the advocate era it came to symbolize.”