Question: Who manufactured the XKE?
Answer: No one.
XK-E is synonymous to "bugeye". The term was never used by Jaguar. The
car's actual moniker is E-Type as a further development of the C and D-Type
race cars.
One rumour I heard was that Jan & Dean made up XK-E for dead man's curve
because E-Type didn't fit. (An XKE pulled up on the right.) Doubt it is
true though. More likely that the damn colonials (us) combined XK150 with
E-Type and got XKE. Anyone know for sure?
Kind of funny if you think about it now that Ford calls the new Jag sports
car an XK-8 and the upcoming sedan is a "place letter here"-Type.
Herb G.
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