The first truly new Vauxhall since General Motors' purchase of the business in 1925, it was an American-style car with certain local amendments.

The first British car fitted with a gear-box "embodying the now famous Synchro-Mesh principle", a system of gear change making every driver an expert.

The rear-most glasses of the six side windows are fixed while the middle ones can be wound down more than half-way and the forward ones fully.

The spare wheel and tyre are in a well in the nearside front wing, tools in a locked cupboard under the bonnet.

Pricing For 1933 detailed refinements were made to provide more comfort and better appearance, "the bodies are more imposing and the cars look lower".

[3] An eddy-free roof front, anti-glare sloping windscreen and anti-dazzle dipping headlamps were fitted, and dual electric screenwipers replaced the single vacuum instrument.

six-cylinder engine's overhead valves are operated by pushrods, the unit itself being suspended on rubber at four points damping out all vibration in top gear.

Rear suspension is by half-elliptical, and practically flat, springs mounted beneath the axle and on rubber pads.

[4] The motoring correspondent of The Times described the engine as having an almost turbine-like silence and smoothness with beautifully responsive acceleration.

[7] "At its price this car provides luxury motoring in the very best sense and within the reach of people of moderate means.