Jaguar Classic E-Type 50s: is become a large cat bounce
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The Jaguar E-Type, one of the most legendary sports cars in the automotive history, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Even Enzo Ferrari pleaded with the praise of "the most beautiful car in the world" as an amateur. For the brand proved to be the 15 March 1961 unveiled in Geneva XK's successor as an image carrier and commercial success. Still on the Jaguar stand at that time were 500 orders for an E-TYPE. No wonder he was the 25,000 mark but only half the price of an Aston Martin DB4, Ferrari 250 GT. In 14 years, died more than 72 500 buyers of the attractions available as a coupe and roadster model. Thus, the first only in a limited edition of 1,000 copies in just E-Type one of the first produced in large numbers thoroughbred athletes. Since 1996, adorns the design icon, the permanent exhibition of the New York Museum of Modern Art
The car was the epitome of contemporary sports car. Show sizes and top athletes vied about in the glow of the revolutionary new Jaguar S-TYPE to be allowed to sunbathe. Among the prominent E-Type owners were among the other footballers George Best, the screen sizes Brigitte Bardot, Tony Curtis and Steve McQueen and the surrealist painter Salvador Dali. For the Swinging Sixties to the E-type was also a symbol like the Beatles or the mini-skirt.
The rapidly maturing a design icon E-TYPE exuded an irresistible aura of strength, elegance and sensuality. The extremely long hood with the headlights sitting under Plexiglas covers that put the service forward-folding hood and the revolutionary "Fast Track" with side-hinged rear door as well as the cheeky upturned Auspuffendstücke new trends.
For the stunning design of the Jaguar E-Type was in charge of Malcolm Sayer an aerospace engineer, his aerodynamic expertise was already in the Le Mans-winning car C-and D-TYPE incorporate. Radical was re-invented as the Sayer of rear independent suspension - with one trailing arm and two strut packages per side and as an upper-arm functioning drive shafts. The installed beneath a seemingly endless six-cylinder engine hood pulled 5,500 rpm from 3.8 liters at 265 hp. He was fed by three carburettors, a four-speed transmission transfers the power to the rear axle.
With a factory specified maximum speed of 240 km / h, earned the E-TYPE as before the XK120/150 the title of "fastest production car in the world." In October 1964 Jaguar replaced the 3.8-liter engine with the 4.2 liter from the new Mark X sedan Maximum torque rose from 348 to 380 Newton meters. The engine power remained the same. Export models were first fitted with air conditioning, and for the Roadster, there was a removable hard top.
In the spring of 1966 appeared mainly at the request of the U.S. E-TYPE customers of the E-TYPE 2 +2. An extended by five centimeters by 23 centimeters with a stretched coupe wheelbase, 3.8 inches higher roof and two auxiliary seats in the rear. Unfortunately, the E-TYPE brought for the small family is now 100 pounds more on the scale, to the detriment of the achievable maximum speed and the quality was Sprint.
After the debut of the E-type Series II in October 1968 started in March 1971, the ultimate Jaguar E-TYPE, equipped exclusively with a newly developed 5.3-liter V12 Series III. With 276 hp and a torque peak of 408 Nm, this cat was the best in the feed. Thanks to an all-aluminum construction that weighed by Harry Mundy and Walter Hassen, "father" of the Coventry Climax Formula 1 engine, constructed power plant just 36 pounds more than the previous six-cylinder.
The chromed grille with six horizontal and four vertical bars gave the Series III E-TYPE optically a touch Ferrari. At the rear, four exhaust paws could imagine the twelve-cylinder, only the U.S. version had to be content with two tailpipes. The majority, 49 000 units well, found the way to the United States. Even today, more than 30,000 E-Type are allowed.
at auction E-TYPE roadster in the first series and convertibles with V12 power the highest prices, preferred are 2 +2 coupes of the series II and III. As a rule of thumb also: Roadster are more expensive by half than coupes, and an E-TYPE enjoys with covered headlamps in each case more than one with detached awe.
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