One of six new lightweights, the E-Type has been built by Jaguar Heritage.
Jaguar Heritage is a section of the Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations Division; the team has been gaining recent notoriety for its levels of innovation and quality. Their latest offering is a prototype built at the Browns Lane factory and follows on from the original E-Type lightweights produced in 1963.
In that year, the ‘Special GT E-Type’ project was launched with the intention of producing 18 examples. Only 12 were built at that point so 6 chassis numbers remained unused, those 6 will now be utilised for the new cars which will be sold as period competition vehicles and all will be suitable for FIA homologation for historic motorsport purposes.
John Edwards who leads the Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations Division said “Special Operations’ remit is to indulge our most discerning and enthusiastic customers’ passion for our cars – including those from our past. This is why our Jaguar Heritage division exists, and why the new Lightweight E-type is such an incredibly exciting project.
“The E-type is an iconic car, and the Lightweight E-type the most desirable of all. To be able to complete the intended production run of 18, some 50 years after the last Lightweight was completed, was an opportunity we couldn’t miss.”
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