Jaguar D-Types won Le Mans in 1955, 1956 and 1957. After Jaguar temporarily retired from racing as a factory team, the company offered the remaining unfinished D-Types as XKSS versions whose extra road-going equipment made them eligible for production sports car races in America. In 1957 25 of these cars were in various stages of completion when a factory fire destroyed nine of them. Total production is thought to have included 18 factory team D-Types, 53 customer cars, and 16 XKSS versions. In 2017, Jaguar announced a limited production of brand-new, 25 D-Types and 9 XKSS continuations built to complete the original production plans.