Video: Jaguar's £1,000,000 Lightweight E-type - technical insight and drive

3 July 2015

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Video: The £1,000,000 Lightweight Jaguar E-Type

Read our history of the iconic Jaguar E-Type

In 1963, Jaguar unveiled a lightened, racing version of its E-type sports car. Powered by an aluminium-block 3.8-litre straight six engine, the sports cars were at the cutting edge of racing technology. Of the planned 18 units, just 12 were ever built, leaving six original chassis numbers set aside.

In 2014, Jaguar Land Rover's Special Operations Division took up the project again, creating six 'new' Lightweight E-types to the exact specifications of the original. With each car costing over £1,000,000 every detail had to be perfect. So have they done the job? Steve Cropley drives the new Lightweight E-type.

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Steve Cropley

Title: Editor-in-chief

Steve Cropley is the oldest of Autocar’s editorial team, or the most experienced if you want to be polite about it. He joined over 30 years ago, and has driven many cars and interviewed many people in half a century in the business.

Cropley, who regards himself as the magazine’s “long stop”, has seen many changes since Autocar was a print-only affair, but claims that in such a fast moving environment he has little appetite for looking back.

He has been surprised and delighted by the generous reception afforded the My Week In Cars podcast he makes with long suffering colleague Matt Prior, and calls it the most enjoyable part of his working week.

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Peter Cavellini 3 July 2015

lovely......!!

I am sure the owners have bought a piece of History,maybe a six car race series to let the rest of us car nuts see them all together....?

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