When Jaguar unveiled the E-Type at the Geneva Motor Show in 1961, it caused a sensation.

Jaguar PR Director Bob Berry famously drove the first Fixed-Head Coupé overnight across Europe, arriving just in time for the show’s opening, where the new model immediately stole the headlines.

With a top speed in excess of 150mph and 0–60mph in just seven seconds, it was the fastest production car in the world and, according to Enzo Ferrari, 'the most beautiful car ever made'.

That launch car, chassis #2, finished in Opalescent Gunmetal Grey and registered 9600 HP, would go on to become one of the most celebrated E-Types of all time.


Fast forward six decades and the car's legend was reignited in 2022 with the Netflix comedy series Man vs Bee, starring Rowan Atkinson CBE.

Commissioned by Netflix and viewed more than 25,000,000 hours globally, the series follows Atkinson’s character, a hapless house-sitter, as his attempts to rid a lavish country home of an irritating bee result in ever-escal...