The Talbot-Lago T14 was the marque's swansong. Launched at the 1954 Paris Salon and delivered from May 1955, the 2500 Coupé T14 LS ran a new all-Talbot 2,491cc DOHC in-block-cam four-cylinder engine developing 120 PS, mounted in a modern tubular chassis with independent front suspension and a four-speed all-synchromesh Pont-à-Mousson or ZF manual gearbox. Delaisse-styled 2+2 coachwork was executed by the factory — the earliest cars in aluminium, later ones in steel. Production is generally cited at 54 T14 LS coupés, though some accounts of the same period records give 45. When the Talbot four proved fragile in service, Lago turned to a de-bored 2,476cc BMW OHV V8 for 1957, rebadged the car the Talbot-Lago America, switched to left-hand drive and built roughly a dozen more. Simca acquired the business in 1959 and completed a final handful of chassis with its own 2,351cc Aquilon side-valve V8 — about five cars in total, sometimes catalogued as the Talbot-Simca T14. Total production across all three engine generations is generally reconstructed at about 71 cars, but that figure is disputed: some accounts treat the 54 figure — or the alternative 45 — as the entire T14 family total, with the Americas counted within it rather than additional to it.
The last car to leave Suresnes under Anthony Lago's ownership, and the closing chapter of the pre-war French grande marque tradition — Delage, Delahaye and Hotchkiss all vanished around the same moment. Values remain modest against the T150 and T26 Grand Sport, and against comparable 1950s Italian GT rivals, which makes the T14 the most attainable point of entry to the Talbot-Lago name.
