David Beckham Gifts His Son an Electric Jaguar Worth Half a Million for His Wedding

It is a Jaguar XK140 that has been fully restored, modernized, and 100% electric which Brooklyn Beckham, son of former Manchester United player David Beckham, received as a wedding gift from the company Lunaz, specialized in converting luxury models.

The wedding gift David Beckham gave his son Brooklyn in 2022 carried a hidden twist. It wasn’t a father’s whim with an open wallet, but a decision with clear business logic.

A wedding and a showcase

The car was a 1954 Jaguar XK140 converted to electric, valued at around £350,000 before taxes, nearly €420,000. It rolled out of Lunaz’s workshop, the Silverstone-based firm in which Beckham has owned a 10% stake since 2021.

Lunaz began in 2018, founded by David Lorenz and Jon Hilton, the latter with a Formula 1 technical-director background. Their business consists of taking high-end classics—Jaguar, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover—and replacing the combustion engine with their own electric drivetrain, while preserving the original bodywork and interior.

When Beckham acquired his stake, he joined the Reuben family, the Barclay family, and investor Alexander Dellal, all known for patient capital rather than opportunistic funds.

The Brooklyn Jaguar was not an ordinary commission. The customization stretched over thousands of hours of work and passed through the hands of 120 people, including artisans, designers, and engineers specializing in electrification.

The light-blue paint has its own name, personally chosen by Beckham, who explicitly asked not to reveal it. The interior, in cream leather, respects the 1954 aesthetic while incorporating screens to monitor battery status. Brakes, suspension, and steering were renewed as well, so the result is a classic that is driven with modern performance, not a showroom piece with a new engine.

Here is where the gift stops being a social anecdote and becomes something more compelling. Beckham didn’t commission the car from a third party; it was built by a company in which he is a shareholder, with labor and engineering hours that he himself partly finances as an investor.

The gift doubles as a showroom. A wedding with global media coverage, cameras from all over the world, and a brand flagship traveling the red carpet to the Miami estate where Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz were wed.

Beckham drove the Jaguar to the ceremony venue and later departed in a Maserati he owns, leaving the electric-car knowledge in his son’s hands for the remainder of the evening.

The Lunaz business model does not rely solely on luxury classics for clients with six-figure budgets. The company has expanded its catalog to include commercial vehicles, garbage trucks, buses, and airport shuttles, all under the same premise: repurposing existing platforms. Reworking a chassis already manufactured is cheaper and yields fewer emissions than building a new one from scratch.

According to the company’s own figures, electrifying a waste-collection truck can save more than 40% of the total cost of ownership versus buying a factory-made electric one. The waitlist for a bespoke order like Brooklyn’s XK140 runs at about a year.

That a retired footballer turned entrepreneur uses his son’s wedding to position one of his investments isn’t an isolated case in the world of ultra-luxury cars, but rarely is the link between a personal gesture and financial interest documented so clearly. Brooklyn Beckham’s Jaguar is simultaneously a father’s gift and an advert that Lunaz could not have funded on its own.

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