Jaguar to make 25 new D-Type roadsters that will look like 1957's original

Jaguar has revealed its third-ever continuation car, the D-Type.
The six-cylinder roadster joins the Jaguar Lightweight E-Type and the Jaguar XKSS continuation cars in the program the company developed in 2014 to reissue modernized versions of its most iconic models. This latest car, although made this year, will look exactly like the original D-type, which won the Le Mans 24 Hours race three times from 1955 to 1957.
In an email, Tim Hannig, the director of Jaguar Land Rover Classic, characterised the car as a “once-in-a-lifetime” project.

He is biased. But it’s true that this recreation—which, judging from previous continuations, is likely to cost more than 1 million pounds ($1.4 million)—is a special car. One that was once owned by Bernie Ecclestone, the eccentric former head of Formula 1, was offered for sale for $12 million last month at a Gooding & Co. auction in Arizona. While that one didn’t sell, Sotheby’s sold a 1955 D-Type in 2016 for almost $22 million. Against those prices, this new one, for what will likely cost less than $2 million, is practically a steal.