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A Vanden Plas Princess 3-litre with automatic transmission was tested by the British magazine The Motor in 1961 and had a top speed of 99.3 mph (159.8 km/h). It could accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 16.1 seconds while fuel consumption of 21.1 miles per imperial gallon (13.4 L/100 km; 17.6 mpg ‑US ) was recorded.
Styled by Pininfarina with additions by BMC staff stylists, the basic vehicle was also sold under two of BMC's other marques as the Austin A99 Westminster and Vanden Plas Princess 3-Litre. Production began in 1959 and the cars were updated and renamed for 1961. The Wolseley remained in production as the Wolseley 6/110 through to 1968.
The long wheelbase models continued to be built by hand in limited numbers as the Vanden Plas Princess 4-litre Limousine, until 1968. All now being parts of British Leyland, the Jaguar Mark X-based Daimler DS420 was initially produced at the Vanden Plas works in Kingsbury, North London then replaced the Vanden Plas Princess within the new ...
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A specially trimmed A99 was sold as the Princess 3-Litre, (note, not an "Austin" Princess – Austin was removed from Princess badging in August 1957 on the larger Princess IV) and later under the Vanden Plas marque as the Vanden Plas Princess. A Wolseley version, the 6/99, was also produced. Production ended in 1961 with the introduction of ...
Princess 2 1700 L: July 1978 – November 1981: 4-cyl 1695 cc O series: 4-speed manual 3-speed automatic Princess 2 1700 HL: July 1978 – November 1981: 4-cyl 1695 cc O series: 4-speed manual 3-speed automatic Princess 2 1700 HLS: May 1979 – March 1980: 4-cyl 1695 cc O series: 4-speed manual 3-speed automatic Princess 2 2000 HL: July 1978 ...
The Austin 3-Litre is a British saloon car that was introduced by Austin at the London Motor Show in 1967. [2] Codenamed ADO61, the car was intended to be BMC 's offering in the 3-litre executive class and was originally designed in the early 1960s, [ 3 ] before the British Leyland era.
Alvis Speed 20 coachwork by Vanden Plas 1933. Vanden Plas is the name of coachbuilders who produced bodies for specialist and up-market automobile manufacturers. Latterly the name became a top-end luxury model designation for cars from subsidiaries of British Leyland and the Rover Group, being last used in 2009 to denote the top-luxury version of the Jaguar XJ (X350).