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Jaguar D-Type XKD551 - Too good for racing!
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Created on August 21, 2025
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Written by:
Martin Sigrist
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Daniel Reinhard
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2Revs Institute - Courtesy RM Sotheby's
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Summary
The Jaguar D-Type continued the wave of success of the C-Types at Le Mans. Jaguar had designed it especially for this purpose. In addition to the works cars, the "D" was also produced for private drivers and teams, who were responsible for many other successes of what is now the most coveted of all Jaguars. However, one example, the last one sold new by Jaguar in May 1957, never took part in a race, and now this fully documented and almost completely untouched car will be auctioned in Zurich in November.
This article contains the following chapters
- Preparing for success
- Aerodynamics and chassis issues
- Cleverly refined
- Le Mans as a baptism of fire
- Works cars and private vehicles
- Documented and original
- Production figures and recreations
- Never competed in a race
Estimated reading time: 17min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Let's be honest, the rare sight of a Jaguar D-Type - be it at an event or even on the road - often makes the interested person think at first that it could be a replica. In fact, the probability of finding a genuine D-Type in the wild is rather low. On the other hand, recreations, replicas and whatever you want to call them - sometimes better and sometimes less well-made examples - are massively outnumbered. But even if it is a genuine D-Type, the history of some examples is typical of former racing cars: they have had accidents, been rebuilt, modified and so on. Some of them don't have much original substance left, even if they have a continuous history.
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