The Jaguar XKSS
The stunning XKSS, finished in Sherwood Green paint, has been created by the Jaguar Classic engineering team ahead of the
production of nine cars for delivery to customers across the globe in 2017.
Often referred to as the world’s first supercar, the XKSS was originally made by Jaguar as a road-going conversion of the Le
Mans-winning D-type, which was built from 1954-1956. In 1957, nine cars earmarked for export to North America were lost in
a fire at Jaguar’s Browns Lane factory in the British Midlands; meaning just 16 examples of XKSS were built.
Earlier this year Jaguar announced that its Classic division would build the nine ‘lost’ XKSS sports cars for a select group
of established collectors and customers. The new one-off XKSS presented in Los Angeles is the summation of 18 months of
research and will be used as a blueprint from which the nine continuation cars are built.
The nine cars will be completely new, with period chassis numbers from the XKSS chassis log.
All cars are now sold at a price in excess of £1million each.
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