Jaguar took nearly forty years to find a genuine successor to its iconic E-type. This is the fascinating, and sometimes frustrating, story of that journey - from the XJ-S through Jaguar's own XJ141/42 and F-type Concept projects to the glorious F-type production car introduced in 2012.
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Jaguar took nearly forty years to find a genuine successor to its iconic E-type. This is the fascinating, and sometimes frustrating, story of that journey - from the XJ-S through Jaguar's own XJ141/42 and F-type Concept projects to the glorious F-type production car introduced in 2012.
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This book tells the fascinating, and sometimes frustrating, story of the journey from the iconic Jaguar E-type to its successor, the F-type. With nearly 300 photographs, it documents the evolution of the F-type from the Pininfarina XJ Spider through Jaguar's own XJ41/42, XX and XK180. It reviews the whole range of F-type convertible and coupe models and discusses the wild Project 7 and the latest turbo-charged four-cylinder cars. The special vehicles produced for Team Sky and Bloodhound SSC are included along with a useful chapter on buying an F-type. Finally, the book considers the F-type's future in a changing automotive world. AUTHOR: Andrew Noakes graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in automotive engineering and became technical editor of Fast Car magazine. He was later editor-in-chief of Classics before going freelance, and has since worked for a wide range of automotive magazines and websites. He has written more than twenty books including four previous titles for Crowood, mot recently Merecedes-Benz SL and SLC 107-series 1971-1989 - The Complete Story. He is a past chairman of the Guild of Motoring Writers and alongside his writing he is course director of the unique Masters degree in Automotive Journalism at Coventry University. 254 colour and 30 b/w photographs
About the Author
Andrew Noakes graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in automotive engineering and became technical editor of Fast Car magazine. He was later editor-in-chief of Classics before going freelance, and has since worked for a wide range of automotive magazines and websites. He has written more than twenty books including four previous titles for Crowood, most recently Merecedes-Benz SL and SLC 107-series 1971-1989 - The Complete Story. He is a past chairman of the Guild of Motoring Writers and alongside his writing he is course director of the unique Masters degree in Automotive Journalism at Coventry University.
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