Porsche isn't the only one working on a revival of an old nameplate, as we just mentioned with the 550 Spyder. Jaguar's finally getting around to building a car that speaks to the soul of the E-Type.
And we've got the spy shots to prove it.
Although it appears to be a rolling chassis with an XK body slapped on, you can clearly tell the proportions are WAY different and speak to the original, iconic E-Type.
Jaguar may have lost me with the current-gen XJ but they may lure me back if this E-Type resurrection is executed just right.
What about you, Spies? Is this the Jag you've been waiting for?
Jaguar’s long-awaited ‘new E-type’ is now just 18 months away from a public unveiling. After two abortive attempts to replace the iconic E-type, Jaguar insiders say that this all-aluminium car will finally step confidently into the gap left by its historic predecessor.
One suggestion is that the production car will be launched at the Detroit motor show in January 2013, some 50 years after the introduction of the ‘Lightweight E-type’, which competed at the Sebring 12 Hours and Le Mans in 1963.
These scoop shots taken near Jaguar’s Whiteley research and development centre reveal an early engineering prototype based on the current XK cabriolet...
[Source: Autocar]
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