Arrows A19

Arrows A19

Arrows

MarqueArrows
Power700 (522 kW) hp @ 15,000 rpm
Race record0 wins from 16 races · 0 championships

Among the 20 Arrows entries in the MotorJury library, the Arrows A19 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Arrows A19, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Arrows A19 reads like this: quoted output is 700 (522 kW) hp @ 15,000 rpm. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Arrows story

Within Arrows's own catalogue the Arrows A19 sits alongside the Arrows A1, the Arrows A10, the Arrows A10B, the Arrows A11. The record names the A18 as its predecessor and the A20 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to John Barnard / Mike Coughlan / Paul Bowen / Jean-Paul Gousset / Gary Savage / Simon Jennings / Brian Hart.

On the record

The Arrows A19 also has a competition record: 0 recorded wins from 16 starts and 0 championships. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

Reading a sparse record honestly

Some pages in this library brim with specifications; others, like corners of every archive, are thin. The honest response to a thin record is to say so, not to pad it. What is shown here is exactly what the public record supports today — and because the harvest re-runs nightly, the page you are reading is the fullest version of this car's open record that existed the last time the site was built.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Arrows A19 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.

Specifications

DesignerJohn Barnard / Mike Coughlan / Paul Bowen / Jean-Paul Gousset / Gary Savage / Simon Jennings / Brian Hart
PredecessorA18
SuccessorA20
Catalogue IDQ2452036

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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What it costs to run

Ownership verdicts are computed from NHTSA complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, re-priced for your country. Verdicts are published per model year as the data is ingested — browse them live, or open the true-cost calculator to price any year yourself.

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