run. In March 2016, Jaguar announced that it would be completing the original 25 XKSS order by hand-building the remaining nine XKSS roadsters to the exact original specification, and assigning them the chassis numbers of the destroyed cars. The "continuation" reproductions were expected to sell for more than £1 million each. Jaguar D-Type continuation Jaguar announced the planned production of 25 D-Type "continuation" vehicles to be hand-built at the Warwickshire, UK workshop to complete Jaguar's original goal of producing 100 D-Type based cars (the last twenty-five of which were to be turned into road-legal XKSS versions). Available options include 1955 short-nose or 1956 long-nose bodywork. Given that Jaguar originally intended to build 100 D-Types, and allocated 100 chassis numbers for them, the combination of the 75 Jaguar claims it already built in the 1950s, plus the 25 XKSS conversions (built in two installments, 16 in 1957 and 9 more starting in 2016), accounts for all 100 original chassis numbers. It is unknown what numbers were to be assigned to the 25 additional "continuation" Type-D's. The vehicle was unveiled in Salon Rétromobile 2018 in Paris. Value By the 1960s these cars were seen as merely obsolete race cars, and commonly changed hands between $3,000 and $5,000. In 1999 a record was set at £1,706,000. The first factory production D-Type (XKD-509) was sold at Bonhams auction for £2,201,500 in July 2008. A 1955 model was sold at a RM Sotheby's auction in Monterey in 2016 for $21,780,000 (£16,641,143). This is the most expensive Jaguar ever to sell at auction. References External links Coventry Racers - Pages for each of the 71 D-Types, including photos and short histories for many. Steve McQueen's XKSS D-Type Rear-wheel-drive vehicles Sports racing cars 24 Hours of Le Mans race cars Le Mans winning cars