Jaguar E-Type '61

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Just bought this from the UCD and its actually quite fun to drive. It doesn't have a high top speed but it drifts round corners and makes alot of smoke.
Does anyone else have this car and if so do you have any tips on whether to tune it or leave it stock?
Thanks.:sly:
 
i would tune it with ecu and air intake and leave the rest stock, its a true legend of a car, you dont want to mess that up by tuning it too much, great great car, makes such a noise!
 
First week I had the game, I bought one and dropped the weight on it to do British Lightweights. Could have saved a ton just buying an Elise...but what the heck. Fun car once you control the oversteer.
 
This is one of THE most enjoyable road cars to drive in the game, for me! Mine came with 3 hundred thousand KMs, plus change... got the high mileage trophy right away. Just with an oil change and 3 decade old tires :dopey:.. she was eager to rev and hadled beautifully at Trial Mountail. Very controllable drifts and very little understeer... if at all. Since then, I've overhauled the engiine and retored the chasis, did the basic engine mods... this time needed the sport softs, and shaved 12 seconds off per lap on the same track.

IIRC... the E Type was voted the overall Greatest Car of all time by Top Gear.
 
I bought one the second day I had the game, I love it. My favourite real life Jaguar as well.
 
I love my E-type, handles quite well for a old car and if you take it out to the nurb, it like to bottom out and send showers of spark.
 
The Jag E-Type 61 is a beautiful car, purchased mine when i could afford her, just an oil change, wash so far and keeping her stock as one in my "virtual" 10 car garage 👍 :) ;)
 
i would tune it with ecu and air intake and leave the rest stock, its a true legend of a car, you dont want to mess that up by tuning it too much, great great car, makes such a noise!

ECU in a 50 year old car, really?
 
I love the car, and it's a blast to drive. I pumped it up to maybe 350 hp for some of the races, and it's a great little vintage car.

One disappontment with it, and that's the way it's modeled. If you look at the real E-Type from the top, you'll see that the real car's width tapers from nose to tail. The tail is a fair bit narrower than the front, as is the rear track width. This actually eliminates a good amount of the car's oversteer. The GT5 version doesn't taper at all -- the left and right edges of the car are perfectly parallel.

You can see it in replay, that the rear fenders are just too wide. I'd love it if PD would fix this, because it's one of the most beautiful cars ever built. They kind of have other things on their plate, though...
 
I got one, never driven it though, is it comparable to the Mercedes SL you drive with at the AMG academy?
 
I won one for my birthday (old dude I know), anyways, I tuned it up, painted it British Racing Green of course and re-entered the tuning car championship and had a blast with it. In two of the races I didn't make the winning pass until late on the last lap. It's the most fun I had in a while with GT5.
 
ECU in a 50 year old car, really?

I'm with you on this one, but I just roll with it. I figure that PD didn't want to have a whole separate option for swapping carburetors so I can live with them allowing "ECU" upgrades on older cars. I just mentally figure it's the same as switching to an up-rated carb.
 
hey,

i modified that car to the T! and its getting harder to control. very good car to drift but not the best. do little upgrades to it, and you will find it that some weight is better than literally no weight at all.

:P
 
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