Green light for Jag's new E-Type 11 November 1992

摘要

The 37 years between the demise of the E-Type in 1975 and the launch of the F-Type in 2012 were packed with 'what if' and 'nearly' moments as Jaguar explored how to replace the most famous and beautiful car of all time. The XJS may have immediately followed the E-Type out of Browns Lane, remaining in production until 1996, but, fine as it was, it would never be seen as a true successor. Nor was it trying to be. The 'F-Type' nearly arrived in the mid-1980s, with the XJ-41 convertible and XJ-42 coupe designed to replace the XJS with a model much more akin to the E-Type, until new owner Ford arrived and killed a project that, in truth, had spent too long in development by that point and had gotten too heavy anyway.