Liz Turner
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E-types on film

While announcing the new short film, Desire, Jaguar's marketing team was keen to stress the E-type's rich film heritage. Actually I had to think hard to come up with any significant E-type performances. After all, Jaguar famously wouldn't give Roger Moore an E-type to drive as The Saint, so he drove a Volvo 1800S. Maybe that's the reason E-types appear most prominently in nostalgic films – the makers chose the car they thought the characters should have been driving in the 1960s – so Austin Powers had one, even though Bond drove an Aston, and Uma Thurman drove one in The Avengers, when Diana Rigg's Mrs Peel had a Lotus Elan. Then there was Twiggy, a 1960s' icon driving one (admittedly a 1970s' Series III) in The Blues Brothers.
   I had to consult a few Jaguar fan sites to come up with more appearances, and there are some gems, such as Vanishing Point – and some real duds I must track down a copy of Danger: Diabolik an Italian movie based on a popular comic strip of the time featuring the adventures of a super-criminal named, err, Diabolik. Apparently it's like an Italian Austin Powers without the humour.
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Elwood chats up Twiggy in The Blues Brothers
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Uma looked great in the cat suit, pity about the script
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Vanishing Point: this was never going to end well
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Diabolik: he's diabolikal
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Austin Powers goes undercover
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Harold and Maude featured a spacially challenged hearse

E-types are seen in:

A Shot in the Dark
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
The Avengers
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Blues Brothers
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
Carry on Doctor
Casino Royale
Danger Diabolik
Every Day's a Holiday
Eye of the Devil
Gumball Rally
Harold and Maude (a hearse)
Herbie The Love Bug
How to Steal a Million
The Odessa File
Terms of Endearment
The Italian Job
The Man Who Haunted Himself
The Young Racers
Thunderball
Vanishing Point
Viva Las Vegas

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