The Vauxhall 14-40 is a 4-door and 2-door roadster / saloon and limousine / coupe / landaulette from Vauxhall, built from 1922 to 1927, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. Under the bonnet: 2297cc I4. C E King drew it.
The story
The Vauxhall 14 is an automobile which was produced by Vauxhall in the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1927. As well as United Kingdom manufacture, knock-down kits were assembled in Australia.
What is underneath
Power comes from 2297cc I4. It weighs 70 in. It shifts through a 3-speed manual (L type) / 4-speed manual (LM type). 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 117 in. 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 Vauxhall 30-98; its successor was the Vauxhall 20-60; assembly was at United Kingdom, Australia. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lancia Lambda, the British Motor Corporation Austin 7, the Fiat 519 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Vauxhall catalogue sit the Vauxhall 10-4 and the Vauxhall 30/98.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Vauxhall 14-40 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.