News - Jaguar revives E-Type, building just 2 models to mark 50th anniversary of GT's retirement

Jaguar has put the E-Type back into—very limited—production to mark 50 years since the seminal GT's retirement, reports Autocar. The firm's in-house historic vehicles division, Jaguar Classic, has used original blueprints to build two new E-Types from the ground up for a client in Southeast Asia, revealing them a half-century after the final example of the original car rolled off the line in Coventry. Both are drophead coupés, one finished in Signet Green and the other in Opal Black - both variations of color schemes that were on the options list in 1974. Jaguar has not given a power figure, but no doubt it's up on the Series I's 265bhp. The Commemorative E-Types are also fitted with hand-woven Bridge of Weir tan leather seats, an aluminum center console engraved with an original E-Type design blueprint, and knurled silver toggle switches on the dashboard. Meanwhile, renowned Birmingham jewelry firm Deakin & Francis has refinished the 'growler' badges in 18-carat gold and mother-of-pearl. It has yet to be revealed how much the two 'new' E-Types will cost their owner, but it will be significantly more than Jaguar Classic's £315,000 'Reborn' E-Type from 2021.