hi and it actually a right hand drive car but alas i can not be positive with the identification of it . i too thought it be a mercedes but now know it probably isn not . it could well be an hispano suiza though . if you do an image internet search on this car a very similar one come up albeit with a spare wheel attach to the door but it wouldn not be unknown for this to be remove by the production company because it get in the way . what i can say though be that it can decelerate from 110mph to 20mph in half a second ( ha . ) i will watch this with interest . i agree that it be a great film though . film4 have just show it for the second time to my knowledge . hope they show love me or leave me soon and a favourite of mine and apparently of cagney himself . in both these film cagney be in his early 50 and be bear in 1899 but still believable a a character .