Jaguar Lightweight E Type

Lightweight E-Type

Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations has unveiled its ‘new’ Lightweight E-Type, hand-built by highly skilled Jaguar craftsmen in a new facility at Browns Lane.

The new Lightweight E-Type is the first recreation to come from Jaguar Heritage which operates within the Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations division.

Just six customer Lightweight E-Types will be built – each assigned one of the remaining chassis numbers originally allocated in 1963 to the intended 18-car ‘Special GT E-Type’ project, of which just 12 were built.

The new Jaguar Heritage customer workshop facility at Browns Lane is now open to offer design resources including the company’s world-leading aluminium body technology.

Aluminium monocoque with stiffened front subframe for race engines above 300bhp

Riveted and welded aluminium construction.

Aluminium bode closures (bonnet / doors/ trunk-lid)

Aluminium detachable hard top roof

21 louvre bonnet air intakes

Black powder-coated roll cage

Front brake cooling ducts integrated with bonnet structure
Displacement: 236.0 cu in (3,868cc)

Valvetrain: 2 valves per cylinder, DOHC

Power: 340hp/253.5kW @ 6500rpm

Torque: 280lbs ft/380Nm @ 4500rpm

Transmission Jaguar 4-speed all synchro close-ratio gearbox

Weight: 2204.6lbs (1000kg)
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