The Jaguar E-Type (UK) or XK-E (US) is a British auto constructed by Jaguar amid 1961 and 1975. Its mix of design, performance, and competitive pricing established the auto as an symbol of 1960s motoring. An important triumph for Jaguar, over seventy thousand E-Types were sold during its lifespan.
One of the world's most famous sports cars, the Jaguar E-type,reached it's half century in 2011. The auto caused a stir when it was put in motion at the Geneva motor exhibit in 1961, and it still does all these years later.
The E-Type was a stunner from the date it was begun. Few could believe a car this appealing was British. And, of course, it was super quick and was priced at a just-about-getatable-dream price of ?2,000.
From the early 60s, the acknowledged perception of the draughty and uncomfortable sports auto was growing dimmer. Even low end models were improving in terms of comfort and accommodation. Nonetheless, by present-day standards they might seem primeval. There were in fact three versions of sports automobile for sale in the 60s: small, inexpensive sports automobiles such as the Triumph Spitfire, Austin-Healey Sprite, or MG Midget; standard-sized motorcars, still mini by today's standards: the MGB, Triumph TR4/5 and Sunbeam Alpine; and fast, forceful and costly machinery, starting with the E-Type Jaguar and Austin-Healey 3000. Any person picking a classic auto all these years later would need to select one of these three groups and pick an automobile from them.
The E-Type was outstanding. It was a by-product of the mathematical and engineering aptitude of Malcolm Sayer and became the first large-scale assembly automobile based on aeroplane basics.
Malcolm Sayer
Born in Cromer, Norfolk, UK, Sayer was schooled at Great Yarmouth Grammar School (where his father instructed Mathematics and Art) and subsequently at the then Loughborough College. He worked for the Bristol Aeroplane Company during the Second World War, which kept him from draft by way of reserved occupation protection. Following the war he wedded Pat Morgan in 1947, then went to work in Iraq in 1948.
He came back to britain in 1950 and joined Jaguar in 1951. Some of his distinct ideas were the inclusion of slide rule and seven-figure log tables to work out formulae he invented for drawing curves, work which is now undertaken by perplexing Computer Aided Design software.
History of Jaguar
Jaguar Cars Ltd, better famous just as Jaguar, is a British luxury motorcar manufacturer, headquartered in Whitley, Coventry, England. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Indian corporation Tata Motors Ltd. and is handled as section of the Jaguar Land Rover business.
Jaguar was born as the Swallow Sidecar Corporation by Sir William Lyons in 1922, originally making motorcycle sidecars before evolving into passenger motor cars. The name was altered to Jaguar after ww2 due to the unwanted connotations of the SS initials (The SS was formed in 1925 as an exclusive protection guard unit for Adolf Hitler). Ensuing an unification with the British Motor Corporation in 1968, subsequently subsumed by Leyland, which itself was later nationalised as British Leyland, Jaguar was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984, and became a part of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Ford in 1989. Jaguar has, in recent times, constructed vehicles for the Prime Minister, the most current one being of a XJ model on 11 May 2010. The corporation also holds Royal Warrants from HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Charles.
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