Jaguar will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the E-Type model this year with a return to the Geneva auto show where it was first unveiled back in 1961.
Launched that same year, the E-Type quickly became an iconic model, lauded for its design and a fixture of the 60s culture in Britain – one exmple even sits permanently in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The model was designed by aeronautical engineer Malcolm Sayer who had also helped shape Le Mans winners such as the C- and D-Type Jaguars.
The E-Type came with a 3.8-litre engine producing 198 kW and 352 Nmof torque and was one of the fastest production cars around with a top speed of around 241 km/h.
“It is impossible to overstate the impact the E-Type had when it was unveiled in 1961,” said Ian Callum, Jaguar Design Director. “Here was a car that encapsulated the spirit of the revolutionary era it came to symbolise. The E-Type is a design that even today continues to inform the work we do in styling the Jaguars of the future.”
Production of the E-Type ran for 14 years and more than 70,000 units were sold.
Source: Jaguar
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