On its release in March 1961] Enzo Ferrari called it "the most beautiful car ever made". In 2004, Sports Car International magazine placed the E-Type at number one on their list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s. In March 2008, the Jaguar E-Type ranked first in The Daily Telegraph online list of the worlds’ "100 most beautiful cars" of all time. Outside automotive circles, the E-type received prominent placement in Diabolic comic series, Austin Powers films and the television series Mad Men.
The final 50 Right Hand Drive Roadsters were built as a final edition to formally mark the end of the E-Type production. These were known as the E-Type Commemorative. There was a choice of manual or automatic, 19 automatic and the remainder manual. The first of the 50 Commemoratives was built on the 15th May 1974 and E-Type production officially closed with the last car one month later on 12th June. A bronze plaque adorns each example, usually on the dashboard and is inscribed with the individual chassis number and William Lyon’s signature. This incredibly rare car has had only one owner since it was two months old, and has covered a genuine 18,000 miles from new. Driving superbly having had a recent engine rebuild following a period in storage. Fully restored in 2015 to the highest possible standard having had a full bare metal rotisserie respray, new interior and full re-chroming of all brightwork (at a cost of £132,000). This is a matching numbers car, complete with original manuals, tool roll and jack and the all- important commemorative plaque on the glove-box cover. The chassis number sequence commenced at “2822”, making it the 4th off of the production line. These cars are extremely rare with a total production of 50 units only.