What was the classic car that Inspector Morse drove in the British TV series of the same name?

Inspector Morse is a British detective drama television series based on a series of novels by Colin Dexter. It starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. The series comprises 33 two-hour episodes produced between 1987 and 2000.

Morse had 'highbrow' passions: music (especially opera; Mozart and Wagner among his favorites), poetry, art, the classics, British real ale, classic cars, and cryptic crossword puzzles.

In "The Sins of the Fathers", he investigates a murder in a brewery-owning family, and in the first episode of the series, "The Dead of Jericho", he compares the life of a dead woman with that of Jocasta, the mother of Oedipus. The same episode also introduced his Jaguar Mark 2 automobile, which is damaged at the beginning and the end of the story being used to prevent the escape of the perpetrators. His interest in classic cars is also explored in "Driven to Distraction", in which he suspects a car salesman of murder. He seems to dislike Jeremy Boynton so strongly that when he refers to Morse's own Jaguar as "she", this convinces Morse of his guilt.

The Regency red 1960 Jaguar Mark 2 2.4L car used by Morse throughout the television series became synonymous with the main character. The Jaguar was given away in a competition a year after filming ended, and in 2002, it was auctioned for £53,200, many times the going rate for a "normal" 2.4. In 2005, it was sold again for more than £100,000.