1977 Leyland Cars all models catalogue Part 2
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- Part Two of this 1977 all model brochure series for Leyland cars.
Last week the fabulous Minis - this week the journey continues with the Maxi and Princess.
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Love the Maxi. Our neighbour and his son always had them including some scrappers on the drive for parts. Most were wrecks but they liked them even though they had more rust at the time than paint and if they did have paint it was usually brush painted..
On a side note you wouldn't have any more Lada brochures. I have a sad fondness for the humble Lada as they were so popular in our town when i grew up...
Yes love the Maxi too. I will certainly have a look as I also love Lada’s and indeed rear engined Skoda’s.
nice too see this Leyland cars brochure part 2,this a this Austin maxi is no more on uk road now, this best cars that time
I'm enjoying the all-round quirkiness of this brochure!
It’s a good one
Good review. The big issue with the BL range of the late '70s/early '80s was that a swathe of outdated models like the Maxi, Marina/Ital, Princess/Ambassador and Allegro had to stay in production for far too long because their replacements were late to market. Had the three 'M' cars launched in 1977 (Metro), 1979/80 (Maestro) and 1980/81 (Montego) as envisaged then BL would have been on the curve rather than behind it. As it was, the new models soon looked dated because they had been under development for so long and the game quickly moved on again. Take a look at the Maestro and Montego, reasonably competitive overall but they look more like late '70s than mid-'80s cars because that is essentially what they were!
Can you do the Austin/Rover range from the early 80s.
Some already on the channel but will definitely do more early 80s Austin Rover - BL.
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Cool 👍
My Dad had a Maxi 1750 HL. I think the Maxi aged well. It was a hatchback, 5 speed and the 1750 HL had decent performance. It needed to be better equipped or have more options.
The earliest Maxis new in 1969/70 were 1500s with bad cable gearchange and AUSTIN letters on the bonnet, very rare today only 22 left. The wrongly referred to Austin Princess was initially Leyland Princess, and when launched it was not a Princess but Austin or Morris 1800 and 2200, and the Wolseley Six so diiferent to the previous Landcrab 1800. The Maxi and Rover SD1 were the only BL hatchbacks until the Princess was restyled into the Ambassador.
My Dad Had 2 Maxi's, first one was a 1973 L-reg 1750 in blue the second was a 1977 R-reg in red these were my Dads cars through the late 70s and the 1980's the blue one was in 1978 to 1981 ( Nov 81 to Sept 82 was a Marina, my Dad was not keen on this car going back to RWD and a 4 speed gear box, and was written off by a drunk driver ) and from October 1982 my Dad bought the red Maxi ( R-reg ) and kept it till December 1989 , back then in the late 1980's I was driving and I drove the Maxi a few times and I liked the car it drove well good on fuel but was not made for unleaded petrol it ran on 4 star, I did put unleaded in by mistake once it still drove ok on unleaded. the car did fail on a few MOT's but easily fixed and always started no problem and never broke down a very reliable car.
All tho ahead of its time it did look dated, this was the beginning of the modern family hatch back, front wheel drive, 5 door body and a 5 speed gear box. It is a shame that BL/ Austin Morris did not move on with the ideas of this to the other cars in the range, fitting a hatch to the Princess and the 5 speed gear box, they did it to the Allegro 1500 and by 1980 when the Metro came out BL should have fitted a 5 speed to the Metro. But in the 1970's Bl wanted to make cars on the cheap that was there down fall.
Great video on the Austin Maxi and the Princess, Take care
Thank you - all the best
Looking back, the Maxi was a fairly advanced car for 1969. Imagine a five speed box at that time. Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Lancias and Alfa Romeos the only five speeders available, not counting cars with overdrive, of course. You can see how BL got away with making it for so long. As a youngster, I thought they Princess was a great looking car. It was ridiculous it wasn't available as a hatchback, and had to wait until it morphed into the Ambassador for that. Always nice to watch with a cuppa.
Yes Alfas, Lancia and Fiat had 5 speeds - The Maxi was possibly the first mass produced Brit though
@@quarterlight Agreed.
Quite strange how this brochure is laid out with it's model range. I'd expect to see the Allegro after the Mini and before the Maxi, the Princess much later on.
The Princess is my favourite BL model. But what on Earth were BL thinking no giving it a hatchback or a rev counter? I could forgive the lack of a 5 speed manual gearbox as I don't think the B series engines were engineered to take them.
There were many mistakes on the Princess. It needs to be 5 speed, have a hatchback and have a rev counter. If British Leyland could not be bothered with that they shouldn't have a had a six cylinder option. With a sixcylinder option it was an attempt at prestige and therefore it needed BL to show a bit more commitment to it.
The princess served a different market segment and i dont think would have taken sales from the Maxi. Clearly BL management thought differently
By this point in time i think they should have given the Allegro and the Princess a hatchback and just kept the Allegro at a 1100 and 1300, then the maxi at the 1500 and 1750, then the princess at 1800 and 2200. All three would have hatchbacks but wouldnt then be cutting into each others customer space. The allegro was to replace the ADO16 which was an 1100 and 1300. You had the Morris Marina which was a 4 door saloon and the Triumph Dolemite which was also a 4 door saloon, so neither of those 2 would have cut into the hatchback range. The marina was a lower spec high volume saloon and the Triumph was a higher spec lower volume saloon. I think it could have worked easily if they just didnt have engines going in cars that didnt really need it like the 1750 Allegro. Yes i agree the 1750 allegro was a nice car and gave the range a huge boost in terms of a halo type car but if they had kept it at a 1100 and 1300 engine range it would have worked with the Maxi 1500 and 1750.
Makes too much sense
The Princess never arrived in Australia. In any case, I'd have had a Maxi over the Princess anyway, in the 1750 c.c. version. The five speed manual transmission and the hatchback make the difference, and the Hydrolastic suspension was excellent. The Maxi was never sold in Australia either. Instead, between 1969 and 1972, Leyland Australia sold the Morris 1300 and Morris 1500 sedan and hatchback models, based on the venerable ADO 16. The Morris 1500 could be a four speed or five speed manual. It featured the 1500 c.c. E-series engine. The automatic transmission versions were called the Morris 1300, as they featured the Mini's 1275 c.c A-series engine along with the "Mini.Matic" four speed automatic transmission. The front end was like a beefed-up ADO 16, while the rear styling was rounded like the Maxi. The hatchback version was pretty much identical to the Maxi from behind. They all ran ADO 16 Hydrolastic suspension, with transverse mounted engine and front wheel drive. The hatchback version was called the Morris Nomad. They were replaced in 1972 by the awful rear wheel drive Morris Marina. That's another story, however. Late sixties and early seventies Aussie Leyland cars would make a good video.
Leyland cars in Australia would be very interesting
@@quarterlight Especially those from the late 1960's and early 1970's. Apart from the ones I mentioned, there were also the Austin X6 Tasman and Kimberley models, which had six cylinder engines, and the Australian designed P76, available with six cylinder and V8 engines. The V8 was 4.4 litres, and Buick derived, if I remember correctly. It was used on some British Leyland models.
The Maxi's theft deterrent looks