The Austin Princess is a 4-door saloon / 4-door limousine from British Motor Corporation, built from 1947 to 1968, in a decade split by war, when civilian production stopped and restarted.
The background
The Austin Princess is a series of large luxury cars that were made by Austin and its subsidiary Vanden Plas from 1947 to 1968. The cars were also marketed under the Princess and Vanden Plas marque names. The Princess name was also used as follows:
From October 1959, the name Princess was used on a deluxe version of BMC's full-sized executive cars badged as an Austin Westminster, Vanden Plas Princess and Wolseley 6/99-6/110 From October 1962, Princess was used on a deluxe version of the Austin/Morris 1300. From September 1975, Princess was used as a name for mass-produced family cars in Leyland's 1800/2200 former Austin/Morris/Wolseley range.
Under the skin
The record carries the shape — a 4-door saloon / 4-door limousine. The engine, output and weight have not yet reached the open record, and MotorJury does not guess at them.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Austin 28 Ranelagh; its successor was the Daimler DS420. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Porsche 356, the Citroën 2CV, 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 Princess — 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.