The Jensen Interceptor, the car with the coolest name in the history of cool names, is set to make a comeback.
A new version of the car, which featured heavily in iconic 60s and 70s TV series such as The Sweeney and The Professionals (and other shows where moustaches and flares were crucial) will hit UK streets in 2014.
The new Interceptor is the brainchild of Healey Sports Cars of Switzerland, which owns the rights to the Jensen name. The firm will commission CPP Global Holdings -- makers of the Bowler Wildcat and Spyker's road and race car chassis -- to build the new Jensen at Jaguar's former Browns Lane site in Coventry.
Details on the new car are scarce, but it'll be pretty beautiful to look at if the renders in our photo gallery are anything to go by. It manages to bring the original car's sleek, muscular aesthetic bang up to date without losing too much of what made the 60s GT car so charming.
Obviously, there's no word as to what sort of propulsion gubbins the new Jensen will use. It'd be a travesty if the new model didn't stay faithful to the original car's sensibilities -- or lack thereof. The 60s and 70s Interceptors used honking great 6.2- and 7.2-litre Chrysler engines, so here's hoping CPP and HSCS furnish this model's engine bay with something along the lines of the 6.4-litre, 525hp lump seen in the new Dodge Challenger SRT8.
Click through our photo gallery above to have a look at the renders for yourself, and dribble some reaction in the comments section below, or on our Facebook page.
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anonymous 21 September, 2011 17:30
My father had an Interceptor III, unbelievable rumble from a 7.2 litre engine, I'll always remember it......and the wisps of smoke from the engine bay that seeped rather alarmingly up through the dashboard.
Theoriginal looked beautiful from every angle - except the back. The front was a combination of Mustang and Aston Martin, the back was, well, unusual to say the least.
anonymous 21 September, 2011 19:47
pure joy. fabulous.
anonymous 21 September, 2011 20:57
I dont think I ever saw a Jensen of 'The professionals' or 'The Sweeney'. Ford Granada or Capris surely?
Rich Trenholm 22 September, 2011 12:43
According to the Internet Movie Car Database, a 1967 Jensen Interceptor MkI appeared in an episode of The Sweeney and a 1972 Interceptor Mk III once appeared in the Professionals. But it's best known as the car driven by the Saint in the 80s (a 1976 Jensen Interceptor Series 3 Saloon in Briazs Blue, apparently)
anonymous 22 September, 2011 16:08
A Interceptor was regularly in an early seventies TV show called The Protectors, starring Robert Vaughan as the central protagonist Harry Rule. The show was known for quite a few cars, as the PR that agreed to supply the Jensen told all his motoring industry chums, who all immediately offered cars as well. The director, Gerry Anderson, has described how they cast the cars for each show, as well as the extras.
Now I'm off to bore everyone down the pub about the Ferrari Dino 246GT as used in The Persuaders.
anonymous 22 September, 2011 19:15
Hi
I think ther new Jensen is absolutely fab - but probably overpriced! I have owned about 5 Jensens interceptors in my time -bought my first one from Seawoods Garage, Southampton in 1973. Paid £7500. for it. I loved my Jensens but all my MK3's continually caused me grief by over-heating. If I ever decided to buy another, I certainly could not afford to pay £200.000 grand...but if I purchased a showroom condition MK3 -I would most probably get an engineering company to replace the engine with a Jaguar engine which I believe would cure the overheating. Problem solved eh! - unless you have better advice. (Sept 2011) www.roystonacademy.com
HARRY
anonymous 23 September, 2011 15:24
I sold my fully restored Mk1 yesterday. To err is human so they say!!!!
Anon