Got an Extra Couple-Hundred Euros in Your Pocket? Why Not Hail a Jaguar Race Taxi at Green Hell?

Photo: Jaguar media website.

If an extra €199 is burning a hole in your pocket and you'll be in the vicinity of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, why not take a thrill ride in a Jaguar Race Taxi on what is reputed to be the world's most demanding track—the Nürburgring Nordschleife, known affectionately in the motorsports world as Green Hell?

Note to Jaguar: If You Can Produce 25 New D-Types, Why Not A Modern E-Type?

Jaguar's production of a limited run of the legendary D-Type competition race car—an obvious precursor, last built in 1956, to the legendary E-Types built for consumers in the 1960s and early 1970s—begs one question: why not consider building a modernized version of the E-Type for general release on the consumer market? Surely there would be some level of demand for it.

Jaguar Classic restarted production earlier this year of the iconic Jaguar D-type race car in Coventry, 62 years after the last example was built. The first Jaguar D-type to be assembled by Jaguar Classic debuted at the Salon Retromobile show in Paris this year.