 | Auction house Gooding & Co. offered a 1957 Jaguar XKSS in 2017 and expected it to sell for $16 to $18 million. The Jaguar bid to $11.9 million and failed to change hands. Jaguar built just 16 examples and it was more than a decade since one went up for sale. The XKSS is a road-going version of the racing-oriented Jaguar D-Type. A D-Type fetched $21.8 million at auction in 2017. |
 |  A sports car icon, the car was helped in part by Steve McQueen owning a model. His XKSS is in a museum in the US. |
 | The car was capable of 0-60mph in 5.2 seconds, 0-100mph in 13.6 seconds and hit a top speed of 149mph. Huge numbers for the time. In 2017 Jaguar Land Rover Classic built a handful to the exact specification - with the reborn models costing more than £1.3m. |
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