The coupes pay homage to the one that Jaguar PR man Bob Berry ran from Coventry to Geneva in 1961 for the Geneva show after company owner Sir William Lyons ordered him, "Get here as fast as you can." Berry hoofed it flat out in the Opalescent Gunmetal Grey hardtop, license plate 9600HP, arriving with just minutes of cushion before the start of test drives for journalists. For the E-type 60 Collection, Jaguar Classic will source six coupes and six convertibles among the 1960s-era Series 1 models with the 3.8-liter straight-six. So where do the past and the future meet? Yet again, in the E-type, Jaguar's best and favorite touchstone for starting over. One might have expected an EV XJ to serve as pilot vehicle to what the automaker described as a "renaissance … as a pure electric luxury brand" that would showcase "pioneering next-generation technologies." Instead, it's more than a billion dollars in development resources roasted in purgatory. Bolloré proved his certainty in the assertion by canceling the next-generation all-electric XJ, a luxury sedan far enough along for the company to have released teaser photos. He spoke of plans to turn Jaguar into an all-electric brand by 2025, one that could "realize its unique potential." Behind that was the unspoken declaration that Jaguar's last decade of course setting and course corrections hasn't worked. The collection is six pairs of E-types-one coupe, one convertible per pair-that celebrate and resurrect the sparkling ghosts of the two E-types that debuted at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show.Īs for that restructuring, last month, new Jaguar Land Rover CEO Thierry Bolloré announced his Reimagine plan for the U.K.'s largest automaker. On the high note, the Coventry cat hosted an online event last week to reveal its E-type 60 Collection models. Jaguar Building Six Additional Lightweight E-types.Jaguar Classic Electrifies a 1968 E-type Roadster.Tested: 1961 Jaguar E-type Rocks the Car World.
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