This final-year Series III is the swan song of Jaguar's most consequential design—a 5.3L V12 automatic that proves the E-Type aged better than most marriages from that era. Red over tan is the only color combination that matters. Clean examples are getting harder to find, and prices reflect it.
The Series III gets dismissed by purists, but they're wrong. This is where the E-Type proved it could still seduce you at 50 years old.
One of 799 F12tdfs built, this barely-broken-in example wears the correct spec—Extra Range Rosso over Blu Medio Alcantara—and pairs Ferrari's 6.3L naturally-aspirated F140 V12 with a seven-speed dual-clutch. At 1,900 miles, it's the kind of garage queen that reminds you why collectors lock these up: appreciating assets that happen to make 769 hp.
The F12tdf is finally becoming the car it always deserved to be—not the forgotten middle child between the 458 and F430, but a modern naturally-aspirated swan song that actually appreciates.
Ferrari's newest 12-cylinder produces 819 hp without forced induction—a middle finger to turbos disguised as engineering. The 6.2L V12 is hand-built and costs enough to buy three 355s. In a world of downsized displacement and synthetic exhaust noise, this is the last gasp of an old religion.
They're not making naturally aspirated V12s anymore because the accountants won. Ferrari's refusal to kill this one—for now—won't change what's coming next.
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