The Austin A30 is a 4-door saloon / 2-door saloon / 2-door estate / 2-door van from British Motor Corporation, built from 1951 to 1956, at the height of the post-war boom. Under the bonnet: 803 .
The background
The Austin A30 is a small family car produced by Austin from May 1952 to September 1956. It was launched at the 1951 Earls Court Motor Show as the "New Austin Seven" and was Austin's competitor with the Morris Minor. At launch, the car cost £507 (equivalent to £15,793.36 in 2019) undercutting the Minor by £62.
The engineering
Power comes from 803 . It weighs 686 kg. It shifts through a 4-speed manual. The wheelbase is 79.5 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Austin 8; its successor was the Austin A35 / Austin Mini; assembly was at Longbridge. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Toyota Land Cruiser, the Cadillac Eldorado, the Chevrolet Bel Air — show what else the money bought that year. Its British Motor Corporation stablemates include the Austin 10 and the Austin 12.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Austin A30 — 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.