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That time an E-Type tried to kill me… Words: Neil Briscoe - @neilmbriscoe Published on: January 23, 2021 Jaguar’s immortal sports car hits sixty this year, but its history hasn’t always been a rosy one. The vast, curved shape of the bonnet rises, in truly priapic fashion, to the sky as the big throttle pedal descends to the carpet beneath. Sigmund Freud would doubtless have had a field day with the styling of the Jaguar E-Type, had he lived long enough to see it. Designer Malcolm Sayer swore blind that the shape was honed in the wind-tunnel, not the amygdala, but unquestionably it was the E s suggestive shape that kick-started the whole debate about fast cars being a substitute for their owners . inadequacies. ....