Start with what the Vauxhall 14-6 is: a 4-door saloon / 2-door coupé (Australia) / 2-door roadster (Australia) / 2-door coupé utility (Australia) / 2-door roadster utility (Australia) with 1,781 , built from 1939 to 1948, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Vauxhall 14-6 is an automobile produced by Vauxhall in England from 1939 until 1948. Announced in October 1938 for the 1938 British International Motor Show at Earls Court, the 14-6 was offered as a six-light, four door saloon and was powered by a four bearing, OHV, 1,781 cc straight-six engine. It had a top speed of 70 mph and could accelerate from 0-50 mph in 18.2 seconds.
The hardware
The engine is 1,781 . On the scales it comes to 22.5 long cwt. 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 105 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Vauxhall line-up the Vauxhall 14-6 has a clear place: it replaced the Vauxhall Light Six; it handed the line to the Vauxhall Velox; the factory was England. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Lincoln Continental, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Cadillac Series 61. Its Vauxhall stablemates include the Vauxhall 10-4 and the Vauxhall 30/98.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Vauxhall 14-6 — 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.