
Jaguar XKSS Steve McQueen Personal Car AUTOart 1:18

Specifications
- Brand
- Jaguar
- Manufacturer
- AUTOart
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 73526
- Year
- 1956
- Era
- 1950s
- Body Type
- Open-Top
- Vehicle Class
- Classic Sports
- Openable Parts
- Yes
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Street Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 674110735260
About the Jaguar XKSS Steve McQueen Personal Car AUTOart 1:18
TL;DR: This AUTOart 1:18 diecast Jaguar XKSS reproduces Steve McQueen's own 1956 car, with opening doors and hood. It is a used model, and the box shows traces of storage. A well-known road-going Jaguar with a genuine celebrity ownership story attached.
McQueen's love of the XKSS is well documented, and Jaguar built the car from leftover D-Type competition chassis fitted with road equipment, which is why the shape still reads as a racer wearing a windshield rather than a purpose-built road car.
Build Quality on This McQueen-Spec XKSS
The diecast body has real presence in the hand, the metal density immediately distinguishing it from a lighter plastic toy of the same shape. Doors and hood both open, and lifting the hood reveals the straight-six engine bay that carried over almost unchanged from the D-Type race car, a detail that matters on a subject whose whole appeal rests on its competition ancestry. Panel gaps sit at the wider end of what this tier allows, and the paint holds an even shine without the deeper flake a premium resin casting would carry, but the long hood and low tail that define the XKSS silhouette come through cleanly. This is a used example, and the outer box shows traces of storage, ordinary carton wear that says nothing about the model's own condition, which presents intact.
Why the XKSS Draws Collector Interest
Jaguar converted a small run of unsold D-Type race chassis into road cars after a factory fire ended competition plans, which makes the XKSS a genuinely rare model rather than a mass-production Jaguar. McQueen's ownership added a second layer of fame on top of that scarcity, one that keeps the car in circulation in film and celebrity-car retrospectives decades later. For a shelf built around classic British sports cars, or one that leans into cars with a documented owner story, this replica works on both fronts, and its opening panels let a collector show off the D-Type-derived mechanicals that make the XKSS more than just a pretty roadster.















