Saturday 5 March 2011

E-Type King of the Road

Amplify’d from www.expressandstar.com
The iconic Jaguar E-Type

The Jaguar E-Type won the ultimate plaudit today, 50 years after being unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show.

Autocar magazine has voted the iconic car the best vehicle that it has ever road-tested.

The magazine, which began road tests in 1928, tested the E-type in March 1961.

Now, 50 years on, the legendary vehicle received the Autocar accolade for “its beauty, power, driving pleasure and design”.

Second place in the best road test table was the McLaren F1. Third was the Mini, fourth the Porsche 911 GT3 RS and fifth the Volkswagen Golf GTi.

Autocar editor Chas Hallett said today: “No car in history except the Jaguar E-type has been so successful in putting together such an amazing package so totally convincingly.

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