Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Daimler Eighteen or Daimler DB18, a 2 litre version of the preceding 2.2 litre New Fifteen introduced in 1938 now using the engine developed for the Scout Car, started out in 1939 as a six cylinder chassis on which Daimler and various British coach builders offered a range of bodies including drop-head coupes. However, the most common version was a four door saloon which Daimler themselves produced and which by the early 1950s was beginning to look unfashionably upright and severe yet dignified .