Vauxhall 20-60

This is the catalogue record of the Vauxhall 20-60, one of 67 models Vauxhall has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1927. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Vauxhall 20-60 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 Bugatti Bugatti type 30 A torpedo, the Volvo Cars Volvo ÖV 4, the British Motor Corporation Austin 16 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Vauxhall 20-60 reads like this: the record lists its engine as I6 / R-Type 2762 cc / T-Type 2916 cc; quoted output is not published / Tax rating 19.82 h.p.; kerb weight is recorded at no weight advised for a complete car / chassis only 2520 lb 22½ cwt; drive goes through by single-plate dry clutch to the 4-speed gearbox coupled by a fabric joint and 2¼ in. diameter tubular propeller shaft to the spiral-bevel driven semi-floating rear axle with a ba; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. Worked together, those figures give roughly 8 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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.

Its place in the Vauxhall story

Within Vauxhall's own catalogue the Vauxhall 20-60 sits alongside the Vauxhall 10-4, the Vauxhall 30/98, the Vauxhall A-Type, the Vauxhall B-Type. The record names the Vauxhall 14-40 as its predecessor and the Vauxhall Eighty – see this page as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to sp = uk. Assembly is recorded at Luton, United Kingdom.

How this catalogue works

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.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Vauxhall 20-60 was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.