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TRIED & TESTED EASE OF USE

TRIED & TESTED JAGUAR E-TYPE SERIES 1.5

Transitional models often blend the purity of the earliest cars with the usability of those improved with hindsight, and the Classic and Sports Car Centre’s E-Type fixed head coupe Series 1.5 demonstrates this perfectly.

Many of the changes needed for the Series 2 had gradually been filtering onto the Series 1 via the Series 1.5 cars – reprofiled, open nacelle headlights, rocker switches in the cabin, twin cooling fans, adjustable seat backs – but without the styling compromises that wereArguably then, here is a car with all the purity of line of the original, with the compromises ironed out.

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