The advantages of being a car company owner
05/02/2013
David Brown, a major English industrialist, owned the Aston Martin and Lagonda companies between 1947 and 1972. One privilege he afforded himself during this certainly not always easy time was to have a very special Lagondabuilt .
The Automobil Revue(No. 22/1955) wrote about it almost 60 years ago: "The vehicle, whose front-end design is strongly reminiscent of Lagonda's Le Mans sports cars, would be large enough to accommodate the powerful 4.5-liter 12-cylinder V-engine in place of the built-in 3-liter six-cylinder engine if the company had plans of this kind."
According to the information available, the car was technically based on the Lagonda 3 Litre, which had been presented in 1953. Obviously, however, the car was extended and the body was completely independent. The electrically adjustable chassis was certainly also interesting.
In principle, this was the ancestor of the Rapide, which was then presented in 1961 on a DB-4 basis.
