The Austin Gipsy is a Four-wheel drive from British Motor Corporation, built from 1958 to 1968, at the height of the post-war boom. Under the bonnet: Austin (A70) OHV petrol.
The story
The Austin Gipsy is an off-road vehicle produced by Austin from 1958 to 1968. It was designed as a lower-cost replacement for the Austin Champ, to compete directly with Rover's Land Rover. Like the Land Rover, it was aimed at both the civilian and military markets.
What is underneath
Power comes from Austin (A70) OHV petrol; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Austin Champ; its successor was the Land Rover; assembly was at United Kingdom. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Dodge Challenger, the Mini Mini, the Nissan Patrol — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the British Motor Corporation catalogue sit the Austin 10 and the Austin 12.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Austin Gipsy has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.