--- title: Jaguar E-Type · HICONIUM description: "Malcolm Sayer shaped the E-Type from calculated ellipses, on a monocoque-and-subframe recipe taken straight from the D-Type — then Jaguar sold it for a third of a Ferrari's price. Series, body style and the earliest details decide which cars lead the market." canonical_url: https://hiconium.com/vehicles/jaguar/e-type image: https://hiconium.com/og/vehicle/jaguar/e-type.png --- > HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.com/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > Path: [Home](https://hiconium.com/) › [Vehicles](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers) › [Jaguar](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers/jaguar) › E-Type > On this page: [The price and the proof](#the-price-and-the-proof) · [The racer's recipe, sold at a road-car price](#the-racers-recipe-sold-at-a-road-car-price) · [Technical specifications](#technical-specifications) · [Buying interest, silently.](#buying-interest-silently) · [Open a file on yours.](#open-a-file-on-yours) · [One badge, 3 executions](#one-badge-3-executions) · [The people behind the car](#the-people-behind-the-car) ![An Opalescent Silver Blue Jaguar E-Type Series 1 roadster, front three-quarter view on a silver-blue field with a warm daylight glow](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/cars/jaguar-e-type/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q90.webp) Market value · road $60K–$300K Typical $180K · 0 sales $51K $318K [Open Market & Price](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/jaguar/e-type#market) # E-Type 150 mph for £2'097 Malcolm Sayer shaped the E-Type from calculated ellipses, on a monocoque-and-subframe recipe taken straight from the D-Type — then Jaguar sold it for a third of a Ferrari's price. Series, body style and the earliest details decide which cars lead the market. [View details](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/jaguar/e-type#overview) Market value · road $60K–$300K Typical $180K · 0 sales $51K $318K [Open Market & Price](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/jaguar/e-type#market) Market value · road $60K–$300K Typical $180K · 0 sales $51K $318K Market history builds with the record [Open Market & Price](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/jaguar/e-type#market) Top speed 149.1 mph (The Motor, 1961 · prepared press car) Power 265 bhp (SAE gross · 3.8 XK six) Engine 3'781 cc (DOHC inline six · triple SU) Transmission 4-speed (Moss box · all-synchro from 1964) Brakes Four-wheel discs (Dunlop · inboard at the rear) Wheelbase 96 in (2'438 mm · 2+2 and V12: 105 in) Market & Price ## The price and the proof A terminal for one car: the model curve over the documented record, the benchmarks it is measured against, and the instruments that read it. Records: 1 documented road sales on file · 2017–2017; estimate band $60K–$300K · good road cars. recorded sale prices · mixed hammer and premium-inclusive basis. HCN:ETYPE Live model $134'164 -33.7% · 12M 1Y 5Y 10Y MAX +2Y S&P 500 Gold Crises log lin Model curve · anchored to 1 documented sales · benchmarks rebased at window start model v1 · seed jaguar-e-type · not investment advice The readouts · model figures against the benchmarks Synthetic model · insufficient ledger Compound annual growth | Window | This car* | S&P 500 | Gold | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1Y | -33.7% | +18.8% | +21.9% | | 5Y | -36.3% | +11.4% | +17.6% | *Modeled price CAGR · S&P is a price index, no dividends Deepest drawdown · model window This car* -98.3% Aug 2017 → Jul 2026 · not recovered S&P 500 -20.3% Dec 2021 → Oct 2022 · recovered Dec 2023 Gold -18.9% Feb 2026 → Jul 2026 · not recovered Forecast ladder · model quantiles | Horizon | P10 | P50 | P90 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | +6M | $122K | $133K | $145K | | +12M | $118K | $132K | $147K | | +24M | $112K | $130K | $151K | Median path with the 10th and 90th percentile · not investment advice Transaction ledger · documented sales Mixed price basis · not estimates All Road LM · Comp Newest first List Distribution Search venue or lot 2 of 2 recorded sales · shown in USD · recorded currency in each record - 2017 · 08 Bonhams · Quail Lodge, Carmel · incl. buyer's premium Road $8M - 2017 · 01 Bonhams · Scottsdale · incl. buyer's premium COMPETIZIONE $7.4M The best road car result is £911'250 for the first customer roadster at Gooding London in 2023. The twelve 1963–64 Lightweights are a separate market: $7'370'000 and $8'000'000 at Bonhams in 2017 remain the public ceiling. Price range · road · open Confidence · medium The E-Type trades in volume, so guide coverage is deep; the band spans honest drivers to concours Series 1 two-seaters. Series, body and originality move a car across the whole band: Series 2, 2+2 and automatic cars sit low, covered-headlight Series 1 roadsters high. Flat-floor early cars and anything with period competition history price above it. Floor $60K Typical $180K Ceiling $300K Estimate band for good road cars. 0 documented sales since 2019 plotted below. $49K $60K $180K $300K $324K Hover the spectrum to read a value, or a dot for the sale behind it. Band, axis and sale positions shown in recorded USD. Figures in USD for six-cylinder road cars across Series 1–3. Lightweights, Low Drag and continuation cars are excluded. The wider market · Jaguar at auction · median per year · modeled between anchors 1,681 lots · 2003–2026 · exact yearly anchors · modeled line [Explore all 40,882 results](https://hiconium.com/market#terminal) Instrument calibration for this file is in progress — the terminal above reads the documented record directly. Published auction totals include buyer's premium. Guide bands are date-stamped snapshots — Hagerty and Classic Trader, 2025 — not appraisals; matching numbers, Heritage Certificate colours and early-car details require car-by-car review. Overview ## The racer's recipe, sold at a road-car price Jaguar had left works racing in 1956 with the D-Type's construction proven. The E-Type carried it to the road: a monocoque tub, a bolted front subframe, Malcolm Sayer's calculated ellipses, and Bob Knight's new independent rear suspension. At Geneva in March 1961 the roadster cost £2'097 including tax — an Aston Martin cost roughly twice as much, a Ferrari three times. The launch tests printed 149 to 150 mph from factory-prepared press cars on racing tyres; honest customer cars ran slower, and nobody cared. The 4.2 of October 1964 brought torque, an all-synchromesh gearbox and better seats behind the unchanged shape; the long-wheelbase 2+2 of 1966 added occasional seats and the first automatic. From 1967 American regulation opened the headlights and leaned the US engines — the transitional cars collectors call Series 1½, then the Series 2 of 1968. The Series 3 of 1971 put Jaguar's new 5.3-litre V12 into the long floor and made the E-Type a grand tourer; the last car was built in June 1974, closing at about 72'500 cars. The shape never left the culture: MoMA took a 1963 roadster as only the third automobile in its collection in 1996, and in 2014 Jaguar completed the six unused Lightweight chassis numbers as continuation cars. ### Drawn with aircraft mathematics Malcolm Sayer came from the Bristol Aeroplane Company and shaped the body from calculated ellipses rather than styling sketches, refined with wind-tunnel work. ### Two overnight drives made the legend For the Geneva reveal on 15 March 1961, PR man Bob Berry drove the grey coupé 9600 HP through the night and arrived with minutes to spare. Demand was so fierce that Sir William Lyons phoned Coventry for a second car. ### One shape, three characters The 3.8 is the purest and the rawest; the 4.2 from late 1964 kept the look, gained torque, better seats, better brakes and a gearbox with synchromesh on first; the Series 3 turned the car into a V12 grand tourer. ### The first eighteen months price differently Cars built to mid-1962 carry flat floors, external bonnet latches and, earliest of all, welded bonnet louvres — the details the market pays a clear premium for. Built About 72'500 Series 1 · 2 · 3 Bodies OTS · FHC · 2+2 Body designer Malcolm Sayer US name XK-E Reference ## Technical specifications ### Powertrain Engine, 1961–1964 XK DOHC inline six, 3'781 cc triple SU HD8, 265 bhp SAE gross claimed — period testers considered real output lower Engine, 1964–1971 XK inline six, 4'235 cc same claimed power, more torque; US emissions cars ran twin Strombergs from 1967 Engine, 1971–1974 V12, 5'343 cc SOHC per bank, four Zenith-Stromberg carburettors, about 272 bhp Gearbox 4-speed manual Moss box without first-gear synchromesh until October 1964, then Jaguar's all-synchromesh unit; Borg-Warner automatic from the 2+2 onward ### Structure and chassis Structure Steel monocoque tub bolted square-tube front subframe carries engine, steering and front suspension — the D-Type recipe Front suspension Independent torsion bars and telescopic dampers Rear suspension Independent Bob Knight's subframe-mounted IRS — lower wishbones, twin coil-over dampers Brakes Dunlop discs all four wheels, inboard at the rear Wheelbase 96 in / 2'438 mm 2+2 and every Series 3 use the 105 in / 2'667 mm floor Headlights Glass-covered to 1967 open lights on the transitional 1967–68 cars and every Series 2 and 3 The records 0mph Launch road test The Motor on 77 RW · prepared press car $0m Auction record Lightweight S850664 · Bonhams 2017 0 Lightweights built of 18 sanctioned · 1963–64 0 MoMA accession third automobile in the collection HICON BID ## Buying interest, silently. A HICON Bid is a confidential expression of buying interest on the Jaguar E-Type file — never public, never shown to other members. It is not a binding purchase, and HICONIUM holds no funds. [Sign in](https://hiconium.com/sign-in) HICON Bids are a member instrument. Sign in to place one. The vault ## Open a file on yours. You keep one? The record starts in your garage — identity, papers, photography, and the market evidence this file already carries, bound to your chassis. [Sign in to open a file](https://hiconium.com/sign-in) [How membership works](https://hiconium.com/membership) The variants ## One badge, 3 executions The register separates the E-Type into its documented executions. One reference silhouette per execution — each opens as its own file as the archive fills. ![Jaguar E-Type Series 1 — reference silhouette](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/catalog/jaguar-e-type.png.w1920.q75.webp) Series 1 01 Reference in preparation Series 2 02 Reference in preparation Series 3 03 3 executions on file · references drawn to the house standard The hands ## The people behind the car The people whose work shaped the Jaguar E-Type. No free period portrait on record #### [Malcolm Sayer](https://hiconium.com/people/malcolm-sayer) Aerodynamicist and body designer Shaped the E-Type from calculated ellipses and wind-tunnel work, carrying his C- and D-Type methods to a production road car. No free period portrait on record #### [William Heynes](https://hiconium.com/people/william-heynes) Chief engineer Directed the programme: monocoque and subframe architecture, the XK six's road tune, and the engineering release of the 1961 car. No free period portrait on record #### Bob Knight Ride and handling engineer Developed the subframe-mounted independent rear suspension that defined the E-Type's ride and carried Jaguar saloons for decades. No free period portrait on record #### Norman Dewis Chief test engineer Proved the car in development and drove 77 RW overnight to Geneva when launch demand outran the single show car. No free period portrait on record #### [Sir William Lyons](https://hiconium.com/people/sir-william-lyons) Founder and chairman Priced the E-Type against cars costing two and three times as much, and kept Sayer's shape unspoiled through the launch decade.