The Delahaye Type 145 is a car from Delahaye, built from 1937, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. Under the bonnet: 4,496 cc V12 engine.
The background
The Delahaye 145 is a luxury car, derived from a racecar design, manufactured by French automaker Delahaye. Based on a sporting tourer, it was designed to be capable for racing.
The engineering
Power comes from 4,496 cc V12 engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 989 kg. It shifts through a 4-speed manual / 4-speed pre-selector. 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. The wheelbase is 2700 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Volkswagen Beetle, the Lincoln Continental, the Chevrolet Suburban — show what else the money bought that year. Its Delahaye stablemates include the Delahaye 103 and the Delahaye 12CV.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Delahaye Type 145 — 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.