Eagle Spyder GT officially launches as the first customer Spyder GT is completed

Eagle Spyder GT officially launches

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The Eagle Spyder GT officially joins the ranks of Eagle’s glorious Jaguar E-Type ‘Special Editions’ as the first customer Spyder GT is completed.

It was in February last year that the Eagle Spyder GT was revealed, and it’s taken since then to complete the first car. But complete it is, and the first customer Eagle GT Spyder has been delivered – complete with an invoice for £695,000 (+vat – £834k). Unless the buyer opted for extras, and then it would have been more.

How many Spyder GTs Eagle build is probably going to be dictated by how many orders they get, but it’s thought a second car is already being built and there are at least two further orders.

What buyers get for their £834k is an E-Type your imagination believes the original Jaguar E-Type was in the 1960s, just new.

In truth, it’s the E-Type taken to another level, with all the drop-dead gorgeousness of the original but none of the problems.

That’s because the starting point for the Spyder GT is an original E-Type – fully stripped to nothing and brought back to life – and a new engine.

That engine can be a fettled, original 3.8 or 4.2 litre, but will really be Eagle’s own 4.7 litre six-pot with 330bhp, good to take the massively fettled Spyder GT to 62 mph in 5.0 seconds, complete with bespoke everything, from interior to 5-speed gearbox.

Henry Pearman, Eagle MD, said:

We’re really proud of what’s been achieved with our E-Type Special Editions, and the worldwide reaction has made all the years of effort and dedication completely worthwhile.
The Spyder GT represents the very best of what we do here at Eagle and we’re thrilled to present it to the world.

If your pockets are deep enough, the Eagle Spyder GT is all the E-Type you could ever want. Although however deep your pockets are is hard to justify a price that would buy you a Porsche 918 Spyder, even if Eagle reckon there are 6,000 man hours in every Spyder GT.

But the decision to buy an Eagle E-type is one for the heart, not the brain.