Aston Martin does not build many cars like the Aston Martin 2-Litre Sports: a 2-seat roadster with 1.97 , built from 1948 to 1950 in a decade split by war, when civilian production stopped and restarted. Its designer of record is Frank Feeley.
How it came about
The Aston Martin 2-Litre Sports is a sports car sold by Aston Martin from 1948 to 1950. It was the first product of the company under David Brown's ownership and is retrospectively known as the DB1. The car debuted at the 1948 London Motor Show and was based on the Aston Martin Atom prototype. Only 15 were sold.
The hardware
Under the skin sits 1.97 . Kerb weight is 1143 kg. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Aston Martin's history is not in doubt: the Aston Martin DB2 followed it. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Citroën 2CV, the Porsche 356, the Chevrolet Bel Air. Its Aston Martin stablemates include the Aston Martin Mark II and the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Aston Martin 2-Litre Sports — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.