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Origins
Alongside its sporting fours, Lagonda offered the 16/65 from 1926: a 2.4-litre six-cylinder car aimed at refined touring rather than competition. The engine's extra cylinders bought smoothness that the marque's twin-cam fours could not match, and the chassis carried limousine, saloon and tourer bodies for buyers to whom silence was the true luxury. It sold in modest numbers — Lagonda was never large — and has been overshadowed since by the Speed Models on one side and the great M45 on the other. But the 16/65 mattered commercially, broadening the catalogue beyond the sporting niche, and it established the six-cylinder line of descent that ran through the 3-Litre of 1928 toward the marque's grandest years. A quiet car with a quiet historical role, both genuine.
1926 Lagonda 16/65 · PSParrot · CC BY 2.0
