Jaguar Buys $170 Million Worth of Vintage Jags
It’s become a trend for older automakers to build historic collections of its lineup from years past. Porsche has done it, Mercedes has an amazing collection, Audi has an entire wing devoted strictly to its racecars, and now Jaguar wants in on the collection building.
Harry Metcalfe, previously the man behind Evo Magazine and now the head of Jaguar Special Operations announced that the company had purchased a cool $170 million of vintage Jaguars and other classics from car collector James Hull in the UK.
The total collection of 543 cars includes 130 vintage Jaguars, which include an aluminum XK-120’s, a few D-Type racecars, around 10 E-Types, a XKSS, and a few Pre-war Jags. Jaguar’s special operation department has been growing quite a lot lately.
The reproduced a small batch of alloy E-Types, and have now turned their sights onto the new F-Type that will have a few special edition runs, first off with the Project 7 F-Type that harkened back to the D-Type racecars.
Jaguar plans to use the collection to highlight its heritage as it moves forward in the future. Hopefully this collection means we will see more cars with design features like the classic ones Jaguar just purchased.