Talbot
Among the 24 Talbot entries in the MotorJury library, the Talbot 14-45 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1926. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Talbot 14-45 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1920s were the vintage era, when coachbuilt bodies, six- and eight-cylinder engines and the first true luxury marques defined a golden age of craftsmanship. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Maserati Maserati Tipo 26, the Rover Rover 16, the Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Talbot 14-45 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1665 cc I6; quoted output is from AD 41 bhp at 4,500 rpm / from AG 46 bhp at 4,500 rpm / from AU 48 bhp at 4,500 rpm / Tax horsepower 13.84; kerb weight is recorded at Saloon 23½ cwt, 2632 lb; drive goes through AX preselector gearbox; the layout is FR. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Talbot's own catalogue the Talbot 14-45 sits alongside the Talbot Express, the Talbot Horizon, the Talbot Samba, the Talbot Tagora. The record names the Talbot 12-30 as its predecessor and the Talbot 75 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Georges Roesch. Assembly is recorded at North Kensington London.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.
A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Talbot 14-45 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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