{"id":73995,"date":"2021-07-07T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=73995"},"modified":"2021-07-15T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:19:34","slug":"60-years-of-lagonda-rapide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/60-years-of-lagonda-rapide\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Years of Lagonda Rapide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, there is little left of the once great British brand Lagonda It belongs to Aston Martin as a subsidiary since 1947. Under the leadership of David Brown, the once insolvent luxury brand was to blossom anew and be positioned as a comfortable counterpart to Aston Martin’s sports cars. However, not much came of it. It remained with a few noble sedans and coup\u00e9s. Production ended in 1958 after around 800 units, and three years later a new Lagonda model appeared for the last time. The Rapide, meanwhile, also failed. Between 1974 and 1989, the former brand name served purely as a model designation for a wedge-shaped sports sedan designed by William Towns. In the past ten years there have been a few concept cars with electric drive. Aston Martin may want to revive the Lagonda brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Straight six-cylinder engine under the hood<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But back to the Lagonda Rapide of 1961, company boss David Brown wanted a sporty sedan based on the Aston Martin DB4, but not be offered under this brand logo. When he bought up Lagonda, he did so particularly because of the inline six-cylinder engine developed by Walter Owen Bentley, which he wanted to use for new sports car models starting with the DB2. Now the further developed version with a displacement expansion to four liters found its way back into a Lagonda. The output was 236 hp. Optionally, the Rapide could also be ordered with the 3.7-liter powerplant directly from the DB4 Vantage. Thanks to three carburetors and a machined cylinder head, 266 hp was available. A three-speed automatic sorted the gears ex works, alternatively you had to do it yourself with a four-speed manual transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n

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