Jaguar builds and builds and builds ...
03/24/2016
The JaguarE-Type is now followed by the XKSS roadster. Nine original cars were completely destroyed in the fire on Browns Lane in 1957. They are now being built again and, like the Lightweight E-Type, distributed to selected customers at a price of around one million pounds.
At the time, the XKSS was built as a road-going homage to the Le Mans-winning D-Type. It was actually a D-Type with a little more comfort.
On the one hand, it is nice that this car is not forgotten, but with today's confusion of replicas, specials and other inauthentic cars, vehicles are once again being released into the world whose age and authenticity will suddenly lead to discussions in a few years or decades.
Will the other manufacturers stand idly by and watch this goings-on? It is quite conceivable that other car manufacturers will also acquire a taste for it and perhaps a Ferrari 250 GTO or an Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale will soon be available to order "normally" again, just like a Bugatti or Alfa Romeo from PurSang. There will certainly be no shortage of chassis numbers ...
