If you fancy a drop-top Jag E-Type built to the highest of modern standards, you’ll be delighted to hear that Eagle is set to produce up to six examples of its new Spyder GT.
This is not a copy but a real, actual E-Type from back in the day. Eagle sources the original vehicle then restores and modernises it, following its own model programme but finishing it off to the customer’s bespoke specification.
The company says each car will take about 6000 man hours to create. Hence the £695,000 price tag.
This gets you a rebuilt E-Type with a choice of original 3.8 and 4.2-litre six-pots or Eagle’s own 4.7-litre unit. The latter sends 345bhp and 360lb ft through a five-speed box.
The purpose of this third model in Eagle’s portfolio is, in the company’s own words, to ‘combine the style and dynamics of the celebrated Eagle Speedster with the high-performance touring capability of the Eagle Low Drag GT.’
In other words, it’s got the pzazz of the soft-top Speedster and the pace of the Low Drag coupe.
It wasn’t an afterthought in Eagle’s business plan, though. ’Development of the Spyder GT began soon after the launch of the Speedster in 2011,’ says the company’s design boss Paul Brace. ‘And like everything we produce, we wanted to ensure that we got as close to perfection as humanly possible.’
