The Riley Nine is the British Motor Corporation that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with not published from 1.1 . It was built from 1926 to 1938, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. Percy and Stanley Riley drew it.
How it came about
The Riley Nine was one of the most successful light sporting cars produced by the British motor industry in the inter war period. It was made by the Riley company of Coventry, England with a wide range of body styles between 1926 and 1938.
The hardware
Power comes from 1.1 not published is the published figure. The wheelbase is 106 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Coventry, England, United Kingdom. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Bugatti type 23 airfoiled, the Bentley Speed Six, the Delage Type 15 S 8 — 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 Riley Nine — 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.