The Vauxhall Wyvern is a 4-door saloon from Vauxhall, built from 1948 to 1957, in a decade split by war, when civilian production stopped and restarted. Under the bonnet: 1442 cc Straight-4.
How it came about
The Vauxhall Wyvern is a medium-sized family car introduced by Vauxhall in 1948 as a successor to the Vauxhall 12. The name comes from the mythical beast the wyvern, and may be due to a misidentification of the heraldic griffin on the Vauxhall badge.
The hardware
Power comes from 1442 cc Straight-4; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1022 -. The wheelbase is 97.75 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Vauxhall 12-4; its successor was the Vauxhall Victor; assembly was at Luton, United Kingdom. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Citroën 2CV, the Porsche 356, the Chevrolet Bel Air — show what else the money bought that year. Its Vauxhall stablemates include the Vauxhall 10-4 and the Vauxhall 30/98.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Vauxhall Wyvern — 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.