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JAGUAR
D-Type
1954 - 1957
United Kingdom
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A total of 75 JAGUAR D-Type have been produced on earth in United Kingdom between 1954 and 1957.
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History of the JAGUAR D-Type
The Jaguar D-Type is a sports racing car that was produced by Jaguar Cars Ltd. between 1954 and 1957. Designed by Chief Engineer and Technical Director William Heynes specifically to win the Le Mans 24-hour race, it shared the straight-6 XK engine and many mechanical components with its C-Type predecessor. Its structure, however, was radically different, with Heynes design and innovative monocoque construction and slippery aerodynamics that integrated aviation technology, including in some examples a distinctive vertical stabilizer.
Engine displacement began at 3.4 litres, was enlarged to 3.8 L in 1957, and reduced to 3.0 L in 1958 when Le Mans rules limited engines for sports racing cars to that maximum. D-Types won Le Mans in 1955, 1956 and 1957. After Jaguar temporarily retired from racing as a factory team, the company offered the remaining unfinished D-Types as street-legal XKSS versions, whose perfunctory road-going equipment made them eligible for production sports car races in America. In 1957 25 of these cars were in various stages of completion when a factory fire destroyed nine of them.
Total production is thought by some to have totaled 71 D-Types, including 18 for factory teams and 53 for privateers (plus an additional 16 D-Types were converted into road-legal XKSS versions). Jaguar is quoted as claiming it built 75 D-Types.
Upgrades & Evolutions during the JAGUAR D-Type production
🔸 JAGUAR - D-Type : 1954 - 1957
🔹 Produced for each model year :
🔹 1954 JAGUAR - D-Type
🔹 1955 JAGUAR - D-Type
🔹 1956 JAGUAR - D-Type
🔹 1957 JAGUAR - D-Type
What are the JAGUAR D-Type paint codes?
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Renovation tutorials for the JAGUAR D-Type
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What are the production figures of the JAGUAR D-Type year by year?
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The JAGUAR D-Type has been produced in several configurations
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