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Published on 02 April 2017

Madmuz, that IS the new one! Extraordinarily (in my view), Enzo Ferrari said the E-Type was the most beautiful car he'd ever seen. The gorgeous 250GT Lusso came out in 1963, surely too late to have been influenced by the XKE (as the Americans know it). Note how much more balanced and, yes, purposeful it looks with its lovely low stance and wide tracks. Earlier British cars including the XKSS and the Aston Martin DBR1 racer which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959 eclipse the E-Type in beauty. I guess my real point is that a car intended for sporting use should carry that theme all the way through to all the mechanicals, including the track to width and track to wheelbase ratios: those laws of physics are out to get the fast driver at every opportunity. (I've never forgotten being held up at Oran Park by an oversteering E-Type when I was in a bog stock first model Honda Accord.) I do think the Reborn Land Rover and Range Rover offerings make sense.