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A look back at all of the Jaguar Types

To celebrate the new F-Type, we reminisce on 61 years of Jag Types

Posted: 10 Apr 2012

Back in 1951, this was Jag's flagship celestial race shuttle. The utterly, deeply gorgeous bodywork hid a lightweight tubular chassis and XK120 running gear, using the road car's 3.4-litre straight six - albeit tuned to 205bhp. It managed to win the Le Mans 24 hour race twice, and we'd like one very much.

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