Longbridge, United Kingdom Melbourne, Australia[2]
Body and chassis
Class
Compact car / Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon 2-door saloon 2-door estate 2-door van
Powertrain
Engine
803 cc A-Series I4
Transmission
4-speed manual
Dimensions
Wheelbase
79.5 in (2,019 mm)[3]
Length
136.5 in (3,467 mm)[3]
Width
55 in (1,397 mm)[3]
Chronology
Successor
Austin A35
The Austin A30 is a small family car produced by Austin from May 1952 to September 1956. It was launched at the 1951 Earls Court Motor Show as the "New Austin Seven" and was Austin's competitor with the Morris Minor.
At launch, the car cost £507 (equivalent to £15,793.36 in 2019) undercutting the Minor by £62.[4]
^AUSTIN SEVEN Car Sales Brochure c1953 #850, www.ebay.ie, as archived at web.archive.org
^Barry Anderson, Building Cars in Australia, 2012, page 198
^ abcCulshaw, David; Horrobin, Peter (1974). Complete Catalogue of British Cars. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-16689-2.
^Robson, Graham (2006). A–Z British Cars 1945–1980. Herridge & Sons. ISBN 0-9541063-9-3.
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were produced. Introduced in 1956, it replaced the highly successful AustinA30. The name reflected the larger and more powerful 34 hp (25 kW) A-Series...
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the small sports car market against the Austin-Healey Sprite. The Sprite used the drive train of the AustinA30/A35 in a new lightweight body, while the...
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distinctive (and recognisably modern) proportions – contrast with the AustinA30, launched in 1952, but still recognisably prewar in size and proportions...
was superseded by the Dauphine, The 4CV competes primarily against the AustinA30, Citroën 2CV, Fiat 500 Topolino, Fiat 600, Morris Minor, Panhard Dyna...
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power of the Austin 7 name that the company re-used it for early versions of the A30 in 1951 and Mini in 1959. Until the First World War, Austin built mainly...
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Joseph Wheater and Brett Huthart. Stewart's first car was a light green AustinA30 with "real leather [covered] seats" which he purchased shortly before...
his motor sport career in rallying, and also raced a Speedwell-tuned AustinA30 and a 3.8 litre Jaguar before switching to single-seaters in Formula Junior...
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