Jaguar E-Type, Still Glamorous at 50 | Cars News | Used Cars ...

Unveiled in North America throughout the 1961 New York auto show, the Jaguar E-Type, or the XKE as it came to be recognized in the United States, is regarded in the center of the most automotive designs of the 20th century. The Museum of Modern Art in New York additional one to its permanent compilation in 1996.

On Wednesday evening, a parade of E-Types absent the Javits Center, anywhere Jaguar had previous exposed its 2012 XKR-S, to the Frank Gehry-designed IAC Building in paradelikeformation. The cars now after that parked in an orderly row curbside

For the ensuing cocktail reception, Simon Doonan, of Barneys New York, divide off a wood and bubbles replica of an E-Type decorated by means of vintage images of the car and photos as of the close to the beginning 1960s. People gazed at Mr. Doonans formation in the lobby as contain awaited the arrival of the actress Megan Fox of the œTransformers movies.

Ms. Fox finally complete her appearance, although the cameo barely lasted extended sufficient to arrange one more specially concocted E-Type martini. The crowd returned shortly following to the bar, as,at the same time as heavy wearing 1960s fashions struck poses on a Doonan-designed scaffolding in the center of the room.