Jaguar XK-SS

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Jaguar XK-SS
XK-SS
Production period:	1956-1957
Class :	Sports car
Body versions :	Roadster
Engines:	Otto engine : 3.4 liters (174 kW)
Length:	3990 mm
Width:	1660 mm
Height:	1120 mm
Wheelbase :	2300 mm
Empty weight :	921 kg

The Jaguar XK-SS was a high-performance sports car that emerged from the Jaguar D-Type in 1956 .

The XK-SS had the six-cylinder engine of the Jaguar D-Type with 3442 cc and 174 kW. The top speed was 250 km / h because of the comparatively large windshield. All vehicles were created by converting the D-Type that was still in the factory and were intended for the US market.

The vehicles received a weather canopy, a windshield and a luggage rack. The tail fin typical of the D-Type was omitted. The side mufflers (side pipes) were retained.

By February 12, 1957, 17 of these converted vehicles had been built. On the evening of that day, a fire broke out in the factory halls, destroying 270 finished or almost finished vehicles, including all D-Type models that had not yet been converted. Later, two D-Type models that had already been delivered to customers were converted to XK-SS versions. The XK-SS had no direct successor.

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• Halwart Schrader: Jaguar type compass - passenger cars since 1931 . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-02106-4 .
• Heiner Stertkamp: Jaguar - The complete chronicle from 1922 to today . 2nd Edition. Heel, Königswinter 2006, ISBN 3-89880-337-6 .
• Between D-Type and E-Type: Jaguar XK-SS . In: Oldtimer Market . No. 8 , August 2006, ISSN  0939-9704 , p. 8th ff .

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