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What he actually said was ''double overhead cam, straight six with four disc brakes and a body that makes our cars look like a skip on wheels. and for less than half the price of a Ferrari. Only a fool would buy one of our cars.
Well I think owning an E-type for many is not even driving it, but go out for some quiet time in the garage, have a beer, sit down and just admire it, get behind the whel, feel the leather, the wood and just spend some time with your beautiful car. It's calming, it's de-stressing and it's just gorgous.... Driving it, ok that's an added bonus.
@@jondonnelly3 there are plenty of people who don't like the E-type. Even its most ardent defenders usually admit that it looks awkward on original width tyres. And the only one that looks good is the S1. The later series and the 2+2s in particular are abominations.
As a fairly long term subscriber can I say how your video production values have soared over the years. This vid would not have been out of place in a Top Gear program back when it was still good. And I mean that as a compliment!
I got to drive a Jaguar E-Type Series 1 from 1964 (Cabriolet) a while ago and it's fantastic! The Colour it has is called "Opalescent Golden Sand" and the Interieur is beige. Also completely original and with 27000km on the Clock! That old E-Type for some Reason is incredibly "common" (for old Sportscars that is) here in the Bavarian Alps and we even have a Mechanic and Restaurateur specifically focusing on old E-Types. In my Town of Berchtesgaden we have 5 E-Type Owners alone and every Year there is a E-Type Meetup and a Drive through the Alps in which the vast Majority are E-Types with Southern German License Plates. Always wondered why they are so "common" down here. But they are well loved and well taken care of, which to have a bit of a Banter is quite rare for Germans to be that obsessed with any British Car whatsoever, but i love to see it! Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
I had a '67 series 1 1/2 in opalescent blue/dark blue leather, chrome wires. Open headlights, tripple SUs, early toggle switch dash. Absolutely epic car with an XJS diff...
Thanks James, that was like a trip down memory lane. I bought my E type in the late sixties from an RAF colleague who had got himself a Dino Ferrari. I had a Mark 2 which being a ‘JAG’ you could park anywhere, but the E type definitely made me seem much more attractive to women. £1000 well spent. Happy days!
Glorious!!! Marvelous!!! So Very Beautiful!!! My Dad Wanted to Buy a New Series One Coupe( as a Tiny, Only Child Family, We Had Owned a New XK140 in 1957) She Finally Consented to a Test Drive, but Pointed Out The Elephant In The Dealership, Me!!! I Leapt Into Action, offering to Ride in the Back, FOREVER, if She Would Only Say Yes to The Jag….. I Never Forgave Her…..
17:24 I took my Jag Mk2 restomod to a rolling road in Uxbridge, some years ago. The yard was full with half a dozen Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworths waiting to be tuned. The rolling road owner said, "Ah, a proper car at last!" when he saw the Jag, even though it only managed 175 bhp out of a flowed 4.2 litre engine with 2" carbs and a straight-through 2" exhaust with 'banana-pipe' headers. So, I wouldn't be surprised that a standard E-Type engine doesn't seem like it has the claimed 265bhp.
The late Leonard Setright would have agreed with you. When he tested an E-Type back in the day, he said even 220 (the claimed power of the Mark II 3.8) seemed optimistic.
Hi James, in my 61 years of driving and owning a great number of brilliant cars, I've had 3 E Types. A roadster and a 2 coupes. They're great cars, if a touch quirky, but I thoroughly enjoyed them all.
Remember walking to school in the late 60s and regularly a red convertible passing me daily’s riven by a young woman with blond hair. Both looked amazing.
If there was a better Jaguar E-Type video review, it hasn't been made yet, and I would be hard pressed to be convinced one better would ever be made. From across the pond.... Well done Jayemm. Well done.
Awesome video James and finally you get it. These cars are the icons to beat all icons in the motoring world and a piece of our history that must never be allowed to fade away. My early E-Type memories from the early seventies, as a young child, was helping my Uncle in very small part with restoring one of his and I have been hooked ever since. Havent driven one yet but My Uncle still has a series 1 so there is hope for that pleasure one day soon I hope.
I treated myself to a classic in 2003 when i was 28. It was a toss up between an E type and an SL Pagoda. I went for the Pagoda because of better reliability, availability of parts, and a feeling of solidity that left me feeling that i wouldn't die if someone crashed into me. But this review is spot on. Cars like E Types and Pagoda's just leave you feeling serene and put a massive smile on your face. Especially in a setting like in this video. The fact that they are things of pure beauty helps a lot too! Gorgeous
What a wonderful film about a wonderful car. I recall the films you made about your dad's old car. They were extremely touching. Some years ago, I took my dad's X-Type for some work to an artisan panel beater in Merthyr Tydfil. He was a lovely old chap with lots of stories. Half covered under a tarpaulin at the back of his garage was what turned out to be an E-Type roadster in the exact same colour as the one you're driving. It was LHD too, and as far as I could tell, in vgc. I asked him if it was for sale. "No", he said. "But I'd let it go for £25,000." Leaving the garage without shaking his hand & buying it is one of my greatest regrets. Time to re-double your efforts to get behind the wheel of your dad's old car, methinks.
I had a ragged '69 E Type in the early 1980s when they were still used cars. The unreliability of the car when daily driving made me smack my forehead. The acceleration and cornering weren't high, but the car was comfortable and surprisingly sophisticated cruising on the highway.
I have a 69 drop top in BRG and live in the Colorado mountains, the car is truly at home here so I get where you are coming from. I loathe taking it out in traffic with all those SUVs though, it is so close to the ground, it only gets to go into town for fuel, which is a pity as it does attract a lot of attention.
My uncle owned both the straight six & later v12, he was also a 'gentleman' rally driver during the 60,s & drove Porsche. A lot of the family thought he was nuts paying almost double the money for a German car that he paid for his Jag. As a young lad in 1966 sitting alonside my uncle as he 'made progress' across the Yorkshire moors at an indecent pace was Nirvana for a young petrol head like myself (at the time my father was driving a Triumph 2000 auto which wasnt too shabby at the time) but my uncle was always a bit of a 'dude'
A car that I have always dreamed of owning, and yet I haven't ever even had the chance to sit in one, and now because of the value of them I guess I never will. And I always lusted after a V12 manual EType so I must be one of the weird Jag lovers, oh well. James if you do get the chance to drive others, please do, nothing can spoil your memories of the drive of this car, maybe make you appreciate it even more... thank you for sharing your stories on the Etype with us...
I had a 1964 6 cly Alfa spyder, and i absolutely loved it. 5 speed box discs all round and triple solex carbs. It kept up with modern traffic no problem at all. Not the best on a tight twisty road though, and with wire wheels with innertubes no seatbelts and like the e-type your head above the windscreen, you wouldnt want to be involved in an accident. But she was beautiful.
Drove and E-type roadster same color as this one on the back roads near St Tropez, as offered a drive by a yacht owner. So cool to be in one and what a special memory! I am long-legged 6.2ft shoe size 11, that was driving on bare feet and knees next to my ears. Loved it!!
I know it is the wrong part of Europe, but around each corner I was half expecting you to run into some sharp-suited Italian business men and a Caterpillar excavator. I also know that Jaguar later admitted that no production E-type left the factory developing 260bhp, I think 220 was closer to the truth and a Federal-spec car is about 170bhp. Certainly none of the E-types that I've driven could be criticised for a lack of performance, but they were all UK-spec cars. The one I remember most fondly was a red, 3.8-litre coupe. Although the ventilation was poor and the interior got very warm I loved the way it steered (on good quality crossply tyres) it had a delicacy and litheness to it that none of the others has quite managed. It had the Moss gearbox, which simply won't be rushed. You can tell a Moss-box because reverse is left and forward, next to first, with a weak spring detent (easy to go backwards when you wanted to go forwards). The Jaguar four-speed box isn't great but is probably easier to get on with and has reverse left and back, next to second, with a much stronger detent to prevent inadvertent engagement (but also means the gear-lever can clash with the hand brake if you go into reverse with the handbrake engaged). Also, the Dunlop disk brakes are probably about as good as brakes could be in 1961, but need a firm push. The Girling equipment on later E-types seem a lot better. I can understand why people might choose to fit better brakes to early E-types. I would say, give the SIII E-type a go to. It's a different experience, I'm not sure that I've ever warmed to a V12 E-type but the cars have a lot going for them. The brakes, for example, are much better and the power delivery of the engine is amazing (but I don't think it sounds as good as other V12 cars, or the six-cylinder E-types). It's also got more room inside and is probably a better car for doing big mileages.
What a wonderful film. Must be one of your best. Giving insight into the unike experience of an E type. Just as I experienced one last summer hired for a day. 😊 Keep emm coming!
Hearing that the Jaguar E Type appears to be appealing to all ages must be a Jaguar thing? I lived opposite a used car lot and no other car for sale there EVER got the same degree of attention as a lovely black Jaguar XJ X350. Literally everyone that walked past it either stopped and checked it out or at the very least turned back for another look at it! Everyone with a soul and love for cars and motoring loves a Jaguar!!!
When I was a kid in the 60’s and ‘70’s this car left everything for dead, more common and attainable than a Ferrari or Lamborghini, with one of a kind style and looks, it sparked my life long interest in cars. A true icon if ever there was one British design and engineering at its peek, just gorgeous.
I somehow feel privileged to have shared that journey with you. You manage to stay just short of smug and your emotion came across. Great vid...great car, can't beat British Racing Green on an E-Type though.
Yes, some roads are made for certain cars! In California we have highway 2 that runs between La Canada Flintridge and Wrightwood. Fifty plus miles of snake. When driving it on a sunny spring day with my Honda S2000 I had the same thought; There is no other car in the world that I would rather have driving this road on this day! Just Glorious!
Lovely car. Just needed some Matt Monro - On Days Like These, playing in the background with those views. Many years ago when the southern part of the M25 was first built, my father drove a friends early V12 E type. The friend was travelling the far east and he had asked my father to look after it, and take it out for little drives. As he has passed away, I can tell you that he got that into the 140s.
Fudging fantastic video this was James - thank you! So glad you resolved to drive an E Type (really hope you get to drive your Dad’s soon) - absolutely loved the cinematography, your account and the car - can’t believe that’s an original colour though
Brilliant video, brilliant car. I have only ever had one ride in an E-type. In the mid seventies my then boss had a primrose yellow roadster, even then it needed a restoration. He took me from Bath to Plymouth in a rainstorm and it was not waterproof. I was not impressed.
I was a workshop manager at a jaguar dealership back in the early seventies great car all the mechanics wanted to work on them so had to even it so all got a chance but were a pain with electrical problems and rear break problems but never had many troubles on the whole the occasional Friday car but was usually sorted out
Jay, re the 55mph cars, the general rule is the presence of a speedometer limited to 85 mph. Also the car you were driving is around a decade before that sad time.
Eh, I dunno. One with a properly built triple-carb or fuel-injected engine that ACTUALLY makes 260+bhp and that revs higher than 5,000rpm - and that has a gearbox with more than three usable forward ratios - would be a lot better than this.
It’s one of the few Cars you ignore everything quirky or poor because it’s simply “Style” on four tyres . You drive it like a gentleman getting to where you are going in your own time everything else can wait for you. Stunning road for a stunning Car the owner certainly lucky to be the current custodian of such an icon.
Awesome video! No matter which convertible you own, Jay perfectly captures why driving with the top down is such an incredible experience. Ps. Loving the e30 M3
At last you understand why Enzo Ferrari went nuts for it. It took him 5 more years to make his 275 GTB. You are correct about benefitting from being a schoolboy in the 1960s.
First comment, as someone born in the fifties and growing up in the sixties and seventies, your father exhibited excellent taste (we all think that if we agree with something!) Second comment, I believe the 55mph limit in the states was introduced following the 1973 oil crisis cased by the Yom Kippur war in October that year. Third comment, it is still the most beautiful looking car ever built imho. Final comment, don’t try to drive every different version you can find, you will spoil the magical memories of driving this particular car in such a lovely part of Europe
You should drive every E-Type people will hand you the keys to Mr Murray. They are wonderful things. Of course that is the gateway to XJS and all that. Beautifully shot as ever and thank you for running a consistently brilliant channel for incurable petrolheads. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year good sir.
I know that road well. So must you having driven up and down it 15x 😂. Anyway, good one and so glad you liked the E-Type, and you’re absolutely right, I suspect that it is close to the perfect car for that particular road.
Yes more E-types please, always loved the looks of them. How about more 50s, 60s, 70s cars as well, especially American. 1957 Bel Air for instance. Sorry i don't have one, just a suggestion.
I don't care if people are echoing Enzo. I don't care if it's a cliché. I don't care if you prefer something else. For me, the series 1 roadster is the most beautiful car that was ever made. I covet these things massively! My yearning for the E-Type stems back to my stepdad taking an 8 year old me and my mum down to the Birmingham NEC for a classic car show in his boss' blue series 1 coupe, where his boss was showing, amongst other very fine cars, a completely mint, absolutely gorgeous, "best in the country" award winning 1957 Ford Thunderbird in Springmist green with a white roof... a car that itself was a hell of a looker! Being a classic car restoration mechanic for his boss' restoration company, on the way down to Brum, he told me everything about the E-Type, including the famous "first car to do the ton and a half" story. The E-Type we were going down in was going on display too, so the drive down was leisurely to say the least. But, once it was off its stand and we were on the way back up the M6 on a quiet summer 1980's Sunday evening, I kept badgering him to do the 150mph. My mum in the passenger seat was very clear that we would NOT be trying that, but after a while, I noticed my stepdad adjust the rear view mirror so that he had eye contact with me sat in the boot (this was the 1980's and this car wasn't the 2+2) and kept looking back until he'd got my attention. Once he had, there was one of those moments of shared, secret understanding between man and boy when his stare kept flicking between me and the dash. Peering over the bulkhead and completely oblivious to my mum, who may or may not have been asleep in the passenger seat (cars arent her thing and she'd had a long, boring day by this point), we were doing over 130mph with absolute effortless of that big, silky smooth straight six. The old girl probably didn't have much more in her and certainly wasn't going to reach that famed 150mph, but she was doing the best she could without any drama at all. For the best part of 40 years now, for me, nothing can compare to the series 1. The roadster is my choice, but the coupe is a very, very close second place. They were, are and always will be the most beautiful car I have ever seen... and given how many rare and exotic classics crossed my path in my childhood and later life working for a company that transported just about any classic you can name, I've been in and around some rare as rocking horse manure absolute stunners. The E-Type will always be king for me though.
Design. Beauty is a Jaguar coupe (most of them....).... Jag gets it (at least used to...). Love my 475hp v6 tuned, zhp tuned F type....best car ever (that I can afford and feel safe in and use day to day in heavy traffic, back roads, food shopping, and on road trips....the best......had a gt2...this is better )
Magnificent thing the E-type for sure. Answering your question if you should get into more restomods; YES. Try out an Alfaholics GTA-R-290 and you 'll never want anything else to drive. Look at the review Chris Harris gave that car, I'll say no more.
Jay I've always appreciated your content, but I felt i had to say your recent offerings have been stunning, let me clarify, I've stopped watching your content on my phone as I fed the kids or was at gym now I save for the BIG telly,,,,, in all my UA-cam watching year that hasn't happened, but I'm so glad I did as this was stunning,,,,,,, only snag was trying to type this on TV wasn't fun 😂
It's cars like these that should remind Jaguar how passionate art, prestige, heritage, and thoughtful evolution is what successful luxury brands sell. Land Rover, their own sister company, thrives on those alone despite all their faults. Jaguar slowly abandoned all, starting with the neglected F-Type.
I remember my first time actually seeing one on the road, 2002 in the north of Portugal in matosinhos, at a gas station that I work in, British racing green series 1 and the nois of it...
Great video, James. Beautiful road and scenery for an old roadster. Noticed you have caterham sunglasses on... that would be a good car for that road too. 😁
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A car so special that Enzo Ferrari once remarked "in the future, people will claim I said all sorts of shit about the E-Type"...
"Never trust what you read on the Internet" - Enzo Ferrari
Enzo was legendary for going on and on about the internet. He was a true visionary.
What he actually said was ''double overhead cam, straight six with four disc brakes and a body that makes our cars look like a skip on wheels. and for less than half the price of a Ferrari. Only a fool would buy one of our cars.
If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard that line about Enzo Ferrari I’d have enough to buy an e-type!!
I reckon the Dino was far better looking, and probably drove much better.
@@dogsbodyish8403 the dino was pretty much a fiat
@@nickward7251the coupe and Spider were.
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Well I think owning an E-type for many is not even driving it, but go out for some quiet time in the garage, have a beer, sit down and just admire it, get behind the whel, feel the leather, the wood and just spend some time with your beautiful car. It's calming, it's de-stressing and it's just gorgous.... Driving it, ok that's an added bonus.
First of all, nobody loathes this car
Yeah he made an L take and id tell him that to his face
Quentin Wilsons mum apparently. That's the only one I've heard though.
I definitely don’t loathe it, but it does nothing for me at all.
@@jondonnelly3 there are plenty of people who don't like the E-type. Even its most ardent defenders usually admit that it looks awkward on original width tyres. And the only one that looks good is the S1. The later series and the 2+2s in particular are abominations.
@RichardHarrold1991 make a list of the most loved cars in the world over the past century, and tell me what ends up at the top of your list
As a fairly long term subscriber can I say how your video production values have soared over the years. This vid would not have been out of place in a Top Gear program back when it was still good. And I mean that as a compliment!
Well said,,,,, felt exactly the same,,,,, I feel Jay has just leveled up,,,,,again!
I got to drive a Jaguar E-Type Series 1 from 1964 (Cabriolet) a while ago and it's fantastic!
The Colour it has is called "Opalescent Golden Sand" and the Interieur is beige. Also completely original and with 27000km on the Clock!
That old E-Type for some Reason is incredibly "common" (for old Sportscars that is) here in the Bavarian Alps and we even have a Mechanic and Restaurateur specifically focusing on old E-Types.
In my Town of Berchtesgaden we have 5 E-Type Owners alone and every Year there is a E-Type Meetup and a Drive through the Alps in which the vast Majority are E-Types with Southern German License Plates.
Always wondered why they are so "common" down here. But they are well loved and well taken care of, which to have a bit of a Banter is quite rare for Germans to be that obsessed with any British Car whatsoever, but i love to see it!
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Still cannot believe they only made 47 thousand E-Types ,total, all three marks. would love to drive those windy mountain roads in one.
I had a '67 series 1 1/2 in opalescent blue/dark blue leather, chrome wires. Open headlights, tripple SUs, early toggle switch dash. Absolutely epic car with an XJS diff...
Thanks James, that was like a trip down memory lane. I bought my E type in the late sixties from an RAF colleague who had got himself a Dino Ferrari. I had a Mark 2 which being a ‘JAG’ you could park anywhere, but the E type definitely made me seem much more attractive to women. £1000 well spent. Happy days!
It's very, very beautiful. Its in a special category of, nothing else matters.
Glorious!!! Marvelous!!! So Very Beautiful!!!
My Dad Wanted to Buy a New Series One Coupe( as a Tiny, Only Child Family, We Had Owned a New XK140 in 1957)
She Finally Consented to a Test Drive, but Pointed Out The Elephant In The Dealership, Me!!!
I Leapt Into Action, offering to Ride in the Back, FOREVER, if She Would Only Say Yes to The Jag….. I Never Forgave Her…..
Andora...who knew! I'd say with the E-type you hit peak on 1st try. Only way to beat it might be the south France coast & Monaco.
17:24
I took my Jag Mk2 restomod to a rolling road in Uxbridge, some years ago.
The yard was full with half a dozen Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworths waiting to be tuned.
The rolling road owner said, "Ah, a proper car at last!" when he saw the Jag, even though it only managed 175 bhp out of a flowed 4.2 litre engine with 2" carbs and a straight-through 2" exhaust with 'banana-pipe' headers.
So, I wouldn't be surprised that a standard E-Type engine doesn't seem like it has the claimed 265bhp.
The late Leonard Setright would have agreed with you. When he tested an E-Type back in the day, he said even 220 (the claimed power of the Mark II 3.8) seemed optimistic.
Jay, that was phenoenal video and I wish you to lay your hands on that purple one next year.
Hi James, in my 61 years of driving and owning a great number of brilliant cars, I've had 3 E Types. A roadster and a 2 coupes. They're great cars, if a touch quirky, but I thoroughly enjoyed them all.
What a great video/film. drone shots, light, music, all totally brilliant.
Remember walking to school in the late 60s and regularly a red convertible passing me daily’s riven by a young woman with blond hair. Both looked amazing.
If there was a better Jaguar E-Type video review, it hasn't been made yet, and I would be hard pressed to be convinced one better would ever be made. From across the pond.... Well done Jayemm. Well done.
Truly one of THE best looking cars ever made! The fact that it was also an incredible sports car to drive too made it perfect back then!
Awesome video James and finally you get it. These cars are the icons to beat all icons in the motoring world and a piece of our history that must never be allowed to fade away. My early E-Type memories from the early seventies, as a young child, was helping my Uncle in very small part with restoring one of his and I have been hooked ever since. Havent driven one yet but My Uncle still has a series 1 so there is hope for that pleasure one day soon I hope.
I treated myself to a classic in 2003 when i was 28. It was a toss up between an E type and an SL Pagoda. I went for the Pagoda because of better reliability, availability of parts, and a feeling of solidity that left me feeling that i wouldn't die if someone crashed into me.
But this review is spot on. Cars like E Types and Pagoda's just leave you feeling serene and put a massive smile on your face. Especially in a setting like in this video.
The fact that they are things of pure beauty helps a lot too! Gorgeous
What a wonderful film about a wonderful car.
I recall the films you made about your dad's old car. They were extremely touching.
Some years ago, I took my dad's X-Type for some work to an artisan panel beater in Merthyr Tydfil. He was a lovely old chap with lots of stories. Half covered under a tarpaulin at the back of his garage was what turned out to be an E-Type roadster in the exact same colour as the one you're driving. It was LHD too, and as far as I could tell, in vgc. I asked him if it was for sale. "No", he said. "But I'd let it go for £25,000." Leaving the garage without shaking his hand & buying it is one of my greatest regrets.
Time to re-double your efforts to get behind the wheel of your dad's old car, methinks.
Ok, I’m a child of the 1960s but I still think the E-Type is the greatest car design in history.
I had a ragged '69 E Type in the early 1980s when they were still used cars. The unreliability of the car when daily driving made me smack my forehead. The acceleration and cornering weren't high, but the car was comfortable and surprisingly sophisticated cruising on the highway.
I have a 69 drop top in BRG and live in the Colorado mountains, the car is truly at home here so I get where you are coming from. I loathe taking it out in traffic with all those SUVs though, it is so close to the ground, it only gets to go into town for fuel, which is a pity as it does attract a lot of attention.
My uncle owned both the straight six & later v12, he was also a 'gentleman' rally driver during the 60,s & drove Porsche.
A lot of the family thought he was nuts paying almost double the money for a German car that he paid for his Jag.
As a young lad in 1966 sitting alonside my uncle as he 'made progress' across the Yorkshire moors at an indecent pace was Nirvana for a young petrol head like myself (at the time my father was driving a Triumph 2000 auto which wasnt too shabby at the time) but my uncle was always a bit of a 'dude'
A car that I have always dreamed of owning, and yet I haven't ever even had the chance to sit in one, and now because of the value of them I guess I never will. And I always lusted after a V12 manual EType so I must be one of the weird Jag lovers, oh well. James if you do get the chance to drive others, please do, nothing can spoil your memories of the drive of this car, maybe make you appreciate it even more... thank you for sharing your stories on the Etype with us...
Best car in the world,
Channeling some Top Gear Clarkson vibes with that line, and that’s just fine with me.
Brilliant, right car, right place. I have a ser.2 coupe but I live in Lancashire and still love the car.
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Fantastic scenery, and the perfect car to complement it. Wonderful.
When you have a car that looks that good it doesn't really matter how it drives!
I had a 1964 6 cly Alfa spyder, and i absolutely loved it. 5 speed box discs all round and triple solex carbs. It kept up with modern traffic no problem at all. Not the best on a tight twisty road though, and with wire wheels with innertubes no seatbelts and like the e-type your head above the windscreen, you wouldnt want to be involved in an accident. But she was beautiful.
Drove and E-type roadster same color as this one on the back roads near St Tropez, as offered a drive by a yacht owner. So cool to be in one and what a special memory! I am long-legged 6.2ft shoe size 11, that was driving on bare feet and knees next to my ears. Loved it!!
I know it is the wrong part of Europe, but around each corner I was half expecting you to run into some sharp-suited Italian business men and a Caterpillar excavator.
I also know that Jaguar later admitted that no production E-type left the factory developing 260bhp, I think 220 was closer to the truth and a Federal-spec car is about 170bhp. Certainly none of the E-types that I've driven could be criticised for a lack of performance, but they were all UK-spec cars. The one I remember most fondly was a red, 3.8-litre coupe. Although the ventilation was poor and the interior got very warm I loved the way it steered (on good quality crossply tyres) it had a delicacy and litheness to it that none of the others has quite managed. It had the Moss gearbox, which simply won't be rushed. You can tell a Moss-box because reverse is left and forward, next to first, with a weak spring detent (easy to go backwards when you wanted to go forwards). The Jaguar four-speed box isn't great but is probably easier to get on with and has reverse left and back, next to second, with a much stronger detent to prevent inadvertent engagement (but also means the gear-lever can clash with the hand brake if you go into reverse with the handbrake engaged). Also, the Dunlop disk brakes are probably about as good as brakes could be in 1961, but need a firm push. The Girling equipment on later E-types seem a lot better. I can understand why people might choose to fit better brakes to early E-types.
I would say, give the SIII E-type a go to. It's a different experience, I'm not sure that I've ever warmed to a V12 E-type but the cars have a lot going for them. The brakes, for example, are much better and the power delivery of the engine is amazing (but I don't think it sounds as good as other V12 cars, or the six-cylinder E-types). It's also got more room inside and is probably a better car for doing big mileages.
Stunning car and scenery.
What a wonderful film. Must be one of your best. Giving insight into the unike experience of an E type. Just as I experienced one last summer hired for a day. 😊 Keep emm coming!
Hearing that the Jaguar E Type appears to be appealing to all ages must be a Jaguar thing? I lived opposite a used car lot and no other car for sale there EVER got the same degree of attention as a lovely black Jaguar XJ X350. Literally everyone that walked past it either stopped and checked it out or at the very least turned back for another look at it! Everyone with a soul and love for cars and motoring loves a Jaguar!!!
When I was a kid in the 60’s and ‘70’s this car left everything for dead, more common and attainable than a Ferrari or Lamborghini, with one of a kind style and looks, it sparked my life long interest in cars. A true icon if ever there was one British design and engineering at its peek, just gorgeous.
I somehow feel privileged to have shared that journey with you. You manage to stay just short of smug and your emotion came across. Great vid...great car, can't beat British Racing Green on an E-Type though.
Yes, some roads are made for certain cars! In California we have highway 2 that runs between La Canada Flintridge and Wrightwood. Fifty plus miles of snake. When driving it on a sunny spring day with my Honda S2000 I had the same thought; There is no other car in the world that I would rather have driving this road on this day! Just Glorious!
Every time I watch the Italian job and the Mafia crush and push those E types over the edge I have a little cry! Maybe one day I’ll get to sit in one😢
Lovely car. Just needed some Matt Monro - On Days Like These, playing in the background with those views.
Many years ago when the southern part of the M25 was first built, my father drove a friends early V12 E type. The friend was travelling the far east and he had asked my father to look after it, and take it out for little drives. As he has passed away, I can tell you that he got that into the 140s.
Time & place. You were right, as the very best car reviewer, to not resist. I live, vicariously, thru ur reviews.
Fudging fantastic video this was James - thank you! So glad you resolved to drive an E Type (really hope you get to drive your Dad’s soon) - absolutely loved the cinematography, your account and the car - can’t believe that’s an original colour though
Well chosen 60's style music and vibes for the opening....
Brilliant video, brilliant car.
I have only ever had one ride in an E-type. In the mid seventies my then boss had a primrose yellow roadster, even then it needed a restoration. He took me from Bath to Plymouth in a rainstorm and it was not waterproof. I was not impressed.
I was a workshop manager at a jaguar dealership back in the early seventies great car all the mechanics wanted to work on them so had to even it so all got a chance but were a pain with electrical problems and rear break problems but never had many troubles on the whole the occasional Friday car but was usually sorted out
An amazing story. Thanks for sharing.
A very nice piece, and very relatable. We don't always have options when it comes to making memories. Happy to see that you exercised yours!
Great video very scenic, different from your usual reviews love it! Yes please do try more, series 1, 2 and 3?
definitely drive more of them !!!
Jay, re the 55mph cars, the general rule is the presence of a speedometer limited to 85 mph. Also the car you were driving is around a decade before that sad time.
A great video, some really nice touches too.
Beuatifully produced. Must have taken a lot of work. Thank you.
Leave it here, James. Beautiful sentiment. As much as there is to explore in the E-type world, you’re never going to get better than that.
Eh, I dunno. One with a properly built triple-carb or fuel-injected engine that ACTUALLY makes 260+bhp and that revs higher than 5,000rpm - and that has a gearbox with more than three usable forward ratios - would be a lot better than this.
@RichardHarrold1991 No, it would be faster. Thats not the same as better.
@RichardHarrold1991 that would be wrong. There's a time and place and that E type was perfect for it 👌
It’s one of the few Cars you ignore everything quirky or poor because it’s simply “Style” on four tyres . You drive it like a gentleman getting to where you are going in your own time everything else can wait for you. Stunning road for a stunning Car the owner certainly lucky to be the current custodian of such an icon.
Yep, behind the wheel of an E Type nothing matter
21:19
Yes ... definitely get into the murky world of restomods, while it's allowed to last.
Beautiful car stunning scenery,
If I was in your shoes I don't think I would top that experience in an E Type
A one off experience
Brilliant Vidéo sir
Awesome video! No matter which convertible you own, Jay perfectly captures why driving with the top down is such an incredible experience. Ps. Loving the e30 M3
Always loved the roadster but never even had a ride in one. Jay looking forward to hearing how it drives....posted before watching.
Well, fantastic car, great videoing stunning
That massive camera lol😅
Car and road matched perfectly
This is a dream drive, a dream car for me. One day, I’ll experience it.
3:40 Independent Rears are best when installed at the back - even the Brits didn't manage to get that wrong
At last you understand why Enzo Ferrari went nuts for it. It took him 5 more years to make his 275 GTB. You are correct about benefitting from being a schoolboy in the 1960s.
Dad was a Dino boy too, also Alfa GTVs too. So, therefore, we had 3 Alfas at the same time. We kept the 1750 GTV for 25 years. Now in NZ.
You NEED to try one on triple SUs and UK diff. You won’t believe the difference. Preferably a 3.8: an extra 500 + rpm to play with 😈
Magic
Man those are smooth roads
For a British car UA-camr to be this long to drive an E-Type, must be some kind of crime.
First comment, as someone born in the fifties and growing up in the sixties and seventies, your father exhibited excellent taste (we all think that if we agree with something!)
Second comment, I believe the 55mph limit in the states was introduced following the 1973 oil crisis cased by the Yom Kippur war in October that year.
Third comment, it is still the most beautiful looking car ever built imho.
Final comment, don’t try to drive every different version you can find, you will spoil the magical memories of driving this particular car in such a lovely part of Europe
You should drive every E-Type people will hand you the keys to Mr Murray. They are wonderful things. Of course that is the gateway to XJS and all that. Beautifully shot as ever and thank you for running a consistently brilliant channel for incurable petrolheads. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year good sir.
I know that road well. So must you having driven up and down it 15x 😂. Anyway, good one and so glad you liked the E-Type, and you’re absolutely right, I suspect that it is close to the perfect car for that particular road.
Yes more E-types please, always loved the looks of them. How about more 50s, 60s, 70s cars as well, especially American. 1957 Bel Air for instance. Sorry i don't have one, just a suggestion.
You are relentless in your production of superb videos. 😊
I don't care if people are echoing Enzo. I don't care if it's a cliché. I don't care if you prefer something else. For me, the series 1 roadster is the most beautiful car that was ever made. I covet these things massively!
My yearning for the E-Type stems back to my stepdad taking an 8 year old me and my mum down to the Birmingham NEC for a classic car show in his boss' blue series 1 coupe, where his boss was showing, amongst other very fine cars, a completely mint, absolutely gorgeous, "best in the country" award winning 1957 Ford Thunderbird in Springmist green with a white roof... a car that itself was a hell of a looker!
Being a classic car restoration mechanic for his boss' restoration company, on the way down to Brum, he told me everything about the E-Type, including the famous "first car to do the ton and a half" story. The E-Type we were going down in was going on display too, so the drive down was leisurely to say the least. But, once it was off its stand and we were on the way back up the M6 on a quiet summer 1980's Sunday evening, I kept badgering him to do the 150mph. My mum in the passenger seat was very clear that we would NOT be trying that, but after a while, I noticed my stepdad adjust the rear view mirror so that he had eye contact with me sat in the boot (this was the 1980's and this car wasn't the 2+2) and kept looking back until he'd got my attention. Once he had, there was one of those moments of shared, secret understanding between man and boy when his stare kept flicking between me and the dash. Peering over the bulkhead and completely oblivious to my mum, who may or may not have been asleep in the passenger seat (cars arent her thing and she'd had a long, boring day by this point), we were doing over 130mph with absolute effortless of that big, silky smooth straight six. The old girl probably didn't have much more in her and certainly wasn't going to reach that famed 150mph, but she was doing the best she could without any drama at all.
For the best part of 40 years now, for me, nothing can compare to the series 1. The roadster is my choice, but the coupe is a very, very close second place. They were, are and always will be the most beautiful car I have ever seen... and given how many rare and exotic classics crossed my path in my childhood and later life working for a company that transported just about any classic you can name, I've been in and around some rare as rocking horse manure absolute stunners. The E-Type will always be king for me though.
Design. Beauty is a Jaguar coupe (most of them....)....
Jag gets it (at least used to...). Love my 475hp v6 tuned, zhp tuned F type....best car ever (that I can afford and feel safe in and use day to day in heavy traffic, back roads, food shopping, and on road trips....the best......had a gt2...this is better )
A 911 GT2?
@ 996 gen
E Type Jaaag! Loved it, thank you. :-)
Please do a review on one that has not been strangled to meet USA emissions. Older cars are very interesting, please do some more research
Always preferred the coupe, but the roadster is a nice machine.
Looks like Otago, a region of New Zealand. But we drive on the right. Really enjoy jayemm in Andorra.
Cinematography and background music is splendid...
Magnificent thing the E-type for sure. Answering your question if you should get into more restomods; YES. Try out an Alfaholics GTA-R-290 and you 'll never want anything else to drive. Look at the review Chris Harris gave that car, I'll say no more.
Brilliant!! I think you might need to do the Miura in Andorra next! Yes do some classy classics, please (oh and lovely filming by the way)
Jay I've always appreciated your content, but I felt i had to say your recent offerings have been stunning, let me clarify, I've stopped watching your content on my phone as I fed the kids or was at gym now I save for the BIG telly,,,,, in all my UA-cam watching year that hasn't happened, but I'm so glad I did as this was stunning,,,,,,, only snag was trying to type this on TV wasn't fun 😂
Hi James, what great film!
Superb car and stunning scenery! Nuff said!👍👏👏❤️🏴
It's cars like these that should remind Jaguar how passionate art, prestige, heritage, and thoughtful evolution is what successful luxury brands sell.
Land Rover, their own sister company, thrives on those alone despite all their faults.
Jaguar slowly abandoned all, starting with the neglected F-Type.
The Series 1 Coupé is BY FAR the best looking E-Type.
I have an S3 v12 Cabrio.
I love it. Lots of grunt. 👍🏻😉
I remember my first time actually seeing one on the road, 2002 in the north of Portugal in matosinhos, at a gas station that I work in, British racing green series 1 and the nois of it...
Great video, James. Beautiful road and scenery for an old roadster. Noticed you have caterham sunglasses on... that would be a good car for that road too. 😁
Another superb video and this one is extra special. You're my favourite car UA-camr. If Clarkson wasn't an idiot, he'd be you.
Awesome!!! 👍😊
Id love to see you drive a restomod to be fair.
Awesome car, beauty in metal , those curves😍😍 , 150mph though was that part of marketing. 60s for me best era for cars.
Sublime.
Jaguar should have watched this before their last advert and their new design philosophy.
Wow, this guy can talk a lot without saying anything of any great consequence.
Nice -road test- talk