Jaguar has a taste for the so-called ‘continuation cars’. It now announces that the C-type will also be built again in a limited edition.
This year it is 70 years ago that Jaguar started production of the C-type and that is, according to the British brand, a perfect time to dust off the construction drawings. Based on the original blueprints it will build a number of new C-types. After all, at Jaguar they have become quite adept at reviving classics. It brought back the XKSS and the D-type, but also the legendary E-type will be continued.
So now it is the turn of the C-type, the oldest of the bunch. Jaguar focuses on the C-type that won the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1953. One of the most important contributors to the C-type’s racing success was the fact that it had ultra-modern disc brakes at the time. In addition, the C-type also had a little more power at its disposal than the regular C-type. Not 202 hp but 223 hp, thanks to three Weber carburettors on the 3.4 straight-six. It all returns in the eight new build copies that are inspired by this.
Before the cars can all be admired in real life, Jaguar already offers the opportunity to assemble a new C-type itself in a configurator, we can imagine that the oldest car is the virtual one that can be assembled by a brand itself. Unfortunately, it is not clear what it costs at the bottom of the line, but you can count on it that it costs several hundred thousand euros.