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Jaguar C-type goes back into production to celebrate 70th Jaguar C-type goes back into production to celebrate 70th January 29, 2021 British car-maker to mark seven decades of its legendary racer with eight continuation models Jaguar’s Classic division has announced it will recreate eight examples of the Jaguar C-type to help celebrate its 70th anniversary. One of the most successful Jaguar race cars ever, the C-type won Le Mans on its 1951 debut and repeated the victory again in 1953. With success on the Mille Miglia and the 12 Hours of Reims, plus other international races, the original ...

That time an E-Type tried to kill me… Words: Neil Briscoe - @neilmbriscoe Published on: January 23, 2021 Jaguar’s immortal sports car hits sixty this year, but its history hasn’t always been a rosy one. The vast, curved shape of the bonnet rises, in truly priapic fashion, to the sky as the big throttle pedal descends to the carpet beneath. Sigmund Freud would doubtless have had a field day with the styling of the Jaguar E-Type, had he lived long enough to see it. Designer Malcolm Sayer swore blind that the shape was honed in the wind-tunnel, not the amygdala, but unquestionably it was t...

1963 Peter Linder Peter Lindner, born on 16 March 1930 in Düsseldorf, was a German importer and distributor for both Aston Martin and Jaguar, as well as a successful racing driver.  In 1957 Lindner met with Sir William Lyons who was clearly impressed and he was appointed official Jaguar importer for the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.  Most of the early sales went to British or American servicemen stationed in Germany, but Lindner also managed to convince some German customers to switch allegiance from Mercedes and other German marques. An enthusiastic driver, he would think nothing of rushin...