There are but a handful of cars that have a legacy so precious, that it’s almost impossible to reinterpret it for the modern world without people crying blasphemy.

The Jaguar F-Type is one of those cars that would’ve gone under such scrutiny had its designers let their guards down for even one second, but the resulting car was such a masterclass in interpretation, that nobody minded that it was the iconic E-Type — one of the world’s most beautiful cars — that inspired it.