E-Type

One order never changes, roadster over coupe over 2+2 and Series 1 over everything. Jaguar E-Type prices from 4,029 recorded auction sales, what a right-hand-drive car or a restoration does to the value, and why the E-Type is cheaper in real terms now than in 2010.

The Series 1 is the E-Type as Geneva first saw it, covered headlamps, slender bumpers and the 150 mph legend, and it is the generation the collector market prizes above all. A guide to the 3.8 and 4.2 cars, flat floors and 2+2s, buying checks and what the deepest E-Type market pays.

The Series 2 is the E-Type that American regulators redrew, open headlamps, bigger mouth, better brakes and cooling, and it remains the most usable route into six-cylinder E-Type ownership. A guide to what changed, why collectors rate it below the Series 1, and the buying checks that matter.

The Series 3 gave the E-Type a 5.3-litre V12, a longer wheelbase and flared arches, trading the original's rawness for turbine-smooth grand touring. A guide to the V12 cars, the commemorative final fifty, what the market pays and how to buy the last of the line.

Jaguar built cars that looked and felt like they cost twice the money, from the XK120 and the E-Type to the Mk2 and the XJ6, and won Le Mans along the way. A guide to the classic Jaguars worth knowing, what each one is like to own and run now, and where it sits in the marque's story.

The Jaguar E-Type was the most beautiful car of its age and one of the fastest, and it ran from the covered-headlamp Series 1 to the V12 Series 3 across fourteen years. The development story, the differences between the series, the myths sorted from the facts, and what the survivors are like to buy now.