FIRST WORD

Sam Skelton

It seems odd on a cold and rainy spring morning to be thinking about grand tourers, but that’s often the way of it. And there’s a particular soft spot in my heart for four seat grand tourers – cars you can kid yourself are practical, but in truth are totally selfish expressions of automotive joy. So what if you never carry more than one other person? The rear seats make excellent overflow luggage space for that two week driving holiday in southern France. So we’ve decided to celebrate them – every post war four seat tourer. The coachbuilt Abbott XK120 sparked an idea what Jaguar would take up for itself with the E-type 2+2, targeting the family man who hadn’t quite let go of his sporting desires. The Series 3…

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Jaguar World (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2025

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