Jaguar World

JIM PATTEN

ROM THE very beginning, Jaguar’s E-type held a mystique that few other manufacturers’ cars could match, its utter beauty overcoming exclusivity, the usual prerequisite of desirability. That the performance and handling matched the exquisite shape only underlined the masterpiece of design. Far better on the road than either of its contemporaries, Aston Martin or Ferrari,

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