Sometimes your wallet won’t stretch to purchasing your dream motor. But don’t worry too much, there are some cars that even the biggest bank balances can’t buy, the dream cars that will forever remain a dream. These are the concept cars that never go into production.

Sometimes your wallet won’t stretch to purchasing your dream motor. But don’t worry too much, there are some cars that even the biggest bank balances can’t buy, the dream cars that will forever remain a dream. These are the concept cars that never go into production.

Jaguar E-Type Growler
Regularly featuring on the lists of the most beautiful cars ever made, Jaguar’s classic E-Type was first seen in 1961 and has held the gaze of admirers ever since, featuring in the Austin Powers movies and the TV series, Mad Men. Enzo Ferrri even went so far to describe the E-Type as ‘the most beautiful car ever made’. It’s no surprise then that since it went out of production in 1975 there has been a huge demand to see the marque brought back to life.

In 2011, on the E-Type’s 50th anniversary there was real hope that we would see a worthy successor.

Designed by Vizualtech, a concept by the name of the Growler E 2011 came to the fore and with a 5.0 litre V8 engine capable of achieving 600bph there was certainly plenty to get excited about. The Growler maintained all the lovely curves which made the original E-Type so desirable whilst adding in some of the more modern day luxuries you might expect to find in a millennial sports car.

Vizualtech’s design team of Bo Zolland and Robert Palm garnered plenty of interest in the Growler project, and it was promised that hand built limited production E-Type Growlers would be available in the summer of 2012. The project was kick-started by an anonymous Swiss businessman and would be built in the UK under by a new company going by the name of Lyonheart Cars.

"We want to make the 'Made In England' label into a truthful concept, not just a statement,” Palm said at the time. “Every part of the Lyonheart K is developed, engineered and hand-built in England. The design clues of the Lyonheart K reflect Britishness at its best: cool, elegant, refined, understated yet powerful and dynamic."Click here for more info and here to see our previous story.”

The company had promised we would see roadworthy cars by 2014, but to date all we have is some fancy computer renderings and a promise of more to come from the Lyonheart website.

Meanwhile Jaguar themselves have launched their own project fitting out old style E-Types with electric engines. Alas the new-look E-Type Growler E 2011 Lyonheart remains a car we can’t buy.

Sell or part ex your car today