Top 10 Endangered British Cars Documentary. Old And Rare Cars in UK Today. History of Cars in UK.
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- List most endangered British cars:
10. Triumph Acclaim 1981-1984
9. Hillman Imp 1963-1976
8. Vauxhall Chevette 1975-1984
7. MG 1100 1962-1971
6. Austin Metro 1980-1991
5. Rover SD1 1977-1986
4. Austin Maxi 1969-1981
3. Vauxhall Viva 1963-1979
2. Princess 1975-1982
1. Austin Allegro 1973-1982
Thanks for watching ;-)
I had 2 Princesses. Loved that wedge shape and they were nice comfortable cars. Had a Allegro for a while too and despite it's poor reputation found it to be nippy and reliable.
My family had quite a few of these.. An 1100, 1800, 2 Allegro's, Princess 2200HLS, 2 SD1's and an Acclaim. Despite all the bad rep, they were all pretty reliable actually.
I had two new as company cars and so comfortable to drive for someone over 6 ft tall (to be honest the most comfortable car I`ve had) I used to 35000 miles a year and no problems, but they used to get hammered in the press.
My first roadgoing car was a Vauxhall viva HC , dead simple to work on , but that little 1159 cc engine , when tuned right , shifted like a ferret up a drainpipe ! , sensitive to well - set points & timing , & had great suspension that just sat like it was on rails , the gearbox needed a fifth gear , as the engine had simply bags of power . Not a bad car at all for a then young buck , thanks G.M. ! Happy Days .
Wow you must be super smart and cool and strong and handsome and totally up your self
The Triumph Acclaim was good because, it proved British workers could build Honda Civic's
*Accords
The car was an absolute piece of shit. The fuckers who built them should have gone to jail.
@@Ian-Hall WoahhhhhoOOooooOoOOoo chill dude we know those cars are trash.
Pity austin rover never sorted out its quality problems
Many 70's cars were worse than earlier models. In 1976 bought a Chevette with the boot, good road holding but didn't like hills. One day on the M62 Pennines hill section an old tatty 105E Anglia even sailed past me so got rid. My 1968 HB Viva SL 90 was much much better and flew along, cornered as if on rails. The HB was very good.
I think half of these cars were killed in TopGear.
I know.... it used to annoy me that they would destroy cars that were old and relatively rare, even though half of them were ugly!
You mentioned the BSM (British School of Motoring) using the Metro, well part of my family owned a major BL dealership in those days and my cousin brokered the deal for 10,000 metros for BSM, apparently he went into the Guinness book of records for doing it.
Is he in jail now? Apparently, most Metros were recalled for Danger issues. Total shitboxes.
I'm not surprised by how few Metros there are.
They were tin worm specials
My God, we made some dross. If ever there was an advert against protectionism, this is it. As soon as BL was exposed to world competition, it fell apart. Complete and utter rubbish, from design to manufacture.
Excluding the SD1: an incredible car thrown together by people who had given up caring.
Lol standard sheep spouting media drivel... Mini most influential car of the 20th Century and sold for 40 years...Rover 200 K series engines revolutionary for the time... State of the art factory in line with the rest of Europe for the Austin Metro.... It was constant government meddling and restricting capital when desperately required to develop " the cutting edge" that killed BL/ Austin Rover. They were told to "make do". Period.
Designs and ideas were brilliant: management and execution, not brilliant.
@@muk8804 The K series had manufacturers rushing to make K-Seal. The only thing to delay instantly blown head gaskets. An utter disgrace.
@@DrRock2009 Triumph Stag, overheating warranty repairs almost killed BL. Triumph TR7 take front suspension off just to reseal a leaky sump gasket. Who are you kidding?
I rented an Austin Metro on holiday and drove it from London to Brighton and South Hampton to Edinburgh and then back to London. For a small car it had nice appointments compared to the Geo Metro we had in the States
Basil had an 1100
Yes it was Basil's wife Sybil that had the Maxi.
Orange, if I remember correctly.
neil piper
Yes Basil had a reddish/orange 1100, that was the car he once gave a hell of a hiding with a small branch! th-cam.com/video/78b67l_yxUc/w-d-xo.html .Hilarious!
It was an Austin 1100 countryman in Tartan Red
1100 in the first series of 6
Maxi in the second series of 6
So my SD1 Vitesse and Princess 2200 HLS (both Manual LHD) are quite rare then... and they are both like new....
Though my fav is Rover P6 but i also lost my heart to Austin Allegro ""two door lil cute hatchback""!! Would love to have one!!
I did never understand, why Vauxhall "redesigned" the front of the Opel Kadett. Why to make something ugly on purpose? I had a Kadett C Coupe, it was just a great car. Loved it!
It had a different face wherever it was sold. The German and Brazillian versions came first, but Isuzu sold one in Japan and didn't Holden sell one under yet a different name? I'd say the U.S. spec '76-78 Chevrolet version looked the best, but they uglified it with square headlights for '79. One other thing that made the U.S. versions bearable was a 4 door model with a stretched wheelbase. But with pollution controls, 5 MPH bumpers and catalytic converters, it might have been even slower and definitely got worse mileage than the European versions, despite the larger OHC engine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_T_platform_(1973)
Remember that British Leyland also built the Rover P6 and Triumph 2000, a cut above the Princess, Marina, Allegro and Maxi, that are well respected.
Love my SD1. Rebuilt if from the ground up except for the electrics. Been sitting on my brothers farm for last 12 years. Because on its maiden drive every electrical circuit died. Still. A really nice car to drive . apart from handling. And regular stopping on motorway. Few over heating problems. But a really nice shaped car
I stand up in defence of the much maligned allegro!! It was roomy and surprisingly nippy, the boot was big but the access limited ans the suspension so soft it made one of kids car sick. The gear boxes were a problem as with all British Leyland FWD s but for all that it was a car I look back on with some affection. P.S at least mine didn't have the square steering wheel, who on earth thought that one up?
On later Allegros the Hydragas units' damping etc. was modified to improve the ride.
The best feature of Allegro was that they were rust resistant, unlike ADO 16.
Although most of these were the butt of jokes in their day, that can be said of many treasured classic cars. Well done car geeks for loving the unloved.
Although Ford is an American company the Escort, Cortina and Capri were everywhere in the 60s, 70s and 80s
Classic fast (for their day), fun easy to work on Fords inc
Cortina mk 2 1600e, Capri with the v6 Essex 3.0
And my favourite the
Escort mk1 and 2 RS2000
I thought it would be an actual video. I get enough slideshow presentations at work.
The Hillman Imp is the only British car with rear engine.
Love the allegro, well built and over engineered ( awesome machine )
Tough to claim that Triumph as British....it obviously the Honda Cvcc Sedan just rebranded
Triumph began as a German company in Edwardian times!
In was made in the UK.
@@nickjervis8123
Two Germans in England formed Triumph. That is why BMW retained the marque.
Who would miss these crappy cars?
The fewer Allegros Princesses and Maxis left on this planet the better.
hodgheg did my neighbours wife up the shitter in a maxi
Happy days
@@richardnixon4345 I would only have admitted to part of that story.......
Didn't Basil Fawlty have an Austin 1100 or 1300 not a Maxi
Really interesting video, I remember all of those cars..
Not surprised by the inclusion of the Rover SD1 and the Austin Allegro. My mother bought a Rover with the V8 engine - the only engine available in Australia - based upon my P6 3500. Mine was a Rover designed and built in the Rover tradition but the SD1 was clearly not. A car of some promise of which none was delivered. Even as a new car, bits and pieces kept falling off. She got rid of it after 12 months and bought a Mercedes W114 with the 250 engine. It ran for a dozen years with next to no problems.
We had the misfortune to rent an Allegro on a trip to the UK. We collected it in London and barely made it to Windsor before it broke down completely. The tow-truck driver said they were all like that. A truly awful car with nothing to recommend it.
My step Grandfather had Rovers from the mid/late 50s until 1980. He loved them all but he wouldn't have the SD1. Didn't like it and even I remember that they were poorly built..which is strange given they would have been built by the same staff at the new plant as the old ones.
The design team included Spencer King and David Bache. David Bache had worked on the P4, P5 and P6 and was well-steeped in the Rover tradition. King went back even further, and my recollection is that he went there in 1945 straight from his military service. His Wilks uncles ran Rover then, very successfully. So far, so good. But whatever they came up with had to go to the BL Board for approval, and who knows what happened there. Certainly William Lyons had little idea of quality engineering, and would have gone for quick rather than proper results. Stokes should have known better but even by then BL was desperate for a car that would sell profitably. The whole car as delivered gave the impression that parts had been designed in metric, parts in imperial and the 2 reconciled at the conversion of 2.5 cm per inch being close enough.
Those last words really sum up the attitude of BL to the car - close enough is good enough. Certainly a far cry from the P5.
All the Fords left have been restored :-)
Ford is American
As they correctly say, old Fords never die. I had a couple of these from a '66 Taunus 20m V6 to a '95 Escort Zetec bought new and sold after 21 years of motoring.
@@Yoni-G I have a hi line Zephyr Farnham estate car from 1958
@@themajesticbulldog3832 They were run pretty much as separate entities, though. Might as well say that Opel/Vauxhall was American because it was owned by GM.
@@seed_drill7135 my point is ford was first made in America
Interesting if not completely accurate. Lose the crappy music to avoid losing viewers. Sorry for the criticism.
uttely shite music.....why !
You shouldn't have to mute the sound because of shite music.
Lets just forget about the Ital.
Merci pour cette vidéo! Les voitures anglaises, elles ne nous manquent pas du tout, mais pour la musique vous êtes toujours les plus fort amis britanniques!
death by iron oxide.........
I expect the main demise of the SD1 was down to us Land Rover fanatics that scrapped them for their V8s to chisle into our Comp and road motors. Certainly speak to most Landy drivers with an old V8 and it will have come from SD1
I knew somebody who had an SD1 V8 in a Transit van. That surprised a few people off the lights, especially when they saw the rally car on the trailer it was pulling!
That engine started out life in the Buick Special, "rope drive" Pontiac Tempest and Oldsmobile F85. There were even plans to build a FWD version of the F85, but when they fell through, that project was re-directed to the development of the much bigger FWD Toronado and Eldorado. I wonder how many 3.5 L V8s have been scavenged from Rover vehicles in order to keep those rare cars alive.
the imp needed a new clutch so often the Roots garage I worked in had a special trolley to remove it.
The Simca 1000 that we also sold was awesome a 5 bearing crank and self adjusting points. Streets ahead of the Imp
+neil piper a bicycle was streets ahead of an Imp. My brother as a mechanic had a natural ability. But he would make every excuse Not to work on Imps.
They added a whole new level to horrible
I owned an Allegro, the big surprise to me is that there are 291 left.
It was a crap car.
Whats intresting is that 10+ years model runs seemed the norm
Nice to know that some are being saved (maybe restored), but these cars had quality and engineering problems, have high emissions, very little safety features, and lots of maintenance if used very much. For historical purposes, OK, but new cars are so much better for the environment and safety. Actually good there are few left and in daily use. Also, quite a stretch to call the Triumph Acclaim a British car.
High emissions? Half of these had tiny engines 😭 😭 😭 . American V8s of the time were killing the planet, and still are.
Think the writings on the wall for the whole UK car industry to be honest. It’s gone continually down hill since the 1950s. None of the cars here were particularly great, let’s face it but at least we WERE making something back in the 1970s.
Thanks for reminding us what killed the British motor industry.
Austin Cambridge is worth a mention.
Most of the 70's British Leyland cars were dreadfully built, and rusted away in a couple of years. The Hillman imp was another car that was not developed properly, constant head gasket problems, I should know I had 3 of them.
The entire British industry is endangered!
The Acclaim had the fewest warranty claims of any BMC/BL car ever until it stopped being produced. Further proof that Honda mechanicals and electrics were light years ahead of BL/Lucas. BL assembly workers continued to make cars with bullet-proof reliability in the form of the R3 and R8 .... both collaborations with Honda. had Honda taken over BL instead of the rapacious BMW things might have been very different, but Honda had Swindon.
Metro was nice for its day, later Maxis were magnificent mechanical cart horses (if that's what you needed), the Shove It says all you need to know, and the All Aggro was an abomination. Father-in-law loved his Triumph Acclaim, though...
Had a 1971 Maxi 1750 for a year.
Never failed me in that time, though the gearbox was diabolical.
Room to fit a double bed in the back ( almost ) and great handling for a big car, much better than the equivalent Fords.
I'd actually love to have a Hillman Imp! It was a technologically brilliant little gem of a car from the Rootes Group with cute and quirky styling to boot. Unfortunately, the car wasn't built as well as it should have been because it was mostly assembled by ex-shipbuilders from Glasgow. A real shame because it absolutely should have run circles around the Austin/Morris Mini in terms of both performance and popularity.
Poor design was a problem too. An all alloy engine and a poor water pump with a radiator in threar engine compartment where there was no ram-airflow was a recipe for overheating and the consequent head gasket failures. Running heater pipes from the water pump to the front bulkhead through the sills was good for rust prevention but made for a nightmare when they sprung a leak and caused wasted time in manufacture. The Imp Sport, though, was a proper goer for its time and a real cut above the 998 Cooper.
Sorry to interrupt! My elderly aunt has a large collection of Motor Sports magazine dating back to 1943. They were collected and lovingly kept in very good condition by her late husband who was an engineer and a car enthusiast. She doesn't want to keep them as she's looking to downsize her home. She's giving them away for free to anyone who's willing to pick them up at her home (she lives in north London), sending them via post is not practical as they are quite heavy and she's not able to manage it. It would make her day knowing the magazines go to someone who will appreciate it as much as her late husband. She also has a classic Volvo (1960's model) she'll be looking to sell in the near future. If anyone is interested, please send me a message. Cheers!
British cars were no better or worse than theit European counterparts.What about Fiat AKA "Fix it again Tony".People like Jeremy Clarkson forged a career out of slagging the British car industry. off.It made good press.Never mentioned Japanese Italian RUST BUCKETS or the proven unreliability of French models..
The japanese cars of that era were superior which is why they still make cars.
@@leoncutajar1369 In term of engineering, yes. As far as bodywork goes, no.
I'm surprised that as many as Rover SD1s survive. Only the V8 version was imported here, and it was a shockingly bad car. The overall concept may have been ok, but the result was very poor
My aunt drove Austin Allegro in the 80s👍
I did a poo all over my own living room floor as I watched this.
Shit happens!
I just had a laugh attack reading that
Intresting to see the cars I was brought up with. British Leyland had problems, and the Media did not help. I have a rare allegro Estate 1750 Manual. The estate 1750 where only avaible with a Auto Box. Believe me my Manaul box 1750 Estate makes a nice driving car,. Interested in more allegro stuff . Try my You Tube channel called Cottons Classics to see my Allegro estate ,a rare car now
After reading some of these posts I wouldn't be so hard on British cars, as we had our share of clunkers on this side of the pond. In the early seventies a neighborhood friend had just bought a brand new red Chevrolet Vega and pointed out the rust spot between the hood (bonnet) and fender (wing) this is on a car that was two days old! We also had the lovely Ford Pinto that had the wonderful habit of blowing up when rear ended. And don't even get me started on our version of the Chevette (laughing referred to as the Sh#tvette over here.)
I have to jump to the defense of the Pinto; that whole story was created by patching together accounts of the less than 100 cars (out of 2,000,000 made!) that had blown up after being hit from behind and creating an imaginary epidemic. You could do that with any car. Not only was the Pinto no more likely to blow up than its competitors, it was safer overall, probably because it was a little bigger. It was a slow , ugly (except the wagon version), unremarkable car that was unfairly smeared by ambulance chasing lawyers.
What is about that black princesss? is it a station car verson or limousine? Nver seen it before.
That's a Woodall Nicholson Kirklees: a Princess-based limousine.
Actually quite a handsome car. Reminds me a bit of a better-proportioned Aston-Martin Lagonda, and probably more reliable.
A funeral wagon, probably.
Can you do a 2021 update?
Mate bought a Toyota Celica 1979 by 1982 first mot it was scrap rotten as a 3 day old curry.i owned a triumph 1300 fwd at time 1968 it was solid lovely car .people are quick to comment on bmw cars without facts.
5:40 Save the worst for last. I've had 2 of these fucking shit machines. I don't like to say it but these cars are equivalent to a really bad case of food poisoning from a relative's chicken sandwich at a picnic. You are going to dislike these people for years.
Most (if not all) of these cars were exported so the actual number of surviving cars is higher. Kind of a sticking point for your math but perhaps good news?
thats why "B'" series engines were turned east -west ,so the fan blows onto the distributor , smart , albeit , all Austin 1800's , were known for comfort, they needed to be , while you wait for auto association , all cars rust , as for reliability give me a beetle ,
Air cooled VW were bad for rust , mechanical and electrical problems.
Forgot the 19 57 Vauxhall Victor series one, only 19 left in the uk
The preservation of these models is very important (thanks to those enthusiast that keep them going)(my Morris 1100 on 3 cylinders was great when it was the only car I had, post separation), just to let designers know where not to go. Let's face it the Japanese, and now the Koreans do this stuff much better. And next, the Chinese.
I cannot agree more.
I'd love to own/revamp/preserve a classic car, but sadly have neither the premises nor the money.
Cars of the 70's tended to rust so naturally there will be few left today especially crap built by British Leyland.
"Documentary" ???
I wonder what rate the Talbot Alpine would have had if remembered before rating these cars...
5:00 bloody nice 😐👍
Great info in this Video, but what's with all the typos in the text? This is about British cars, so the spelling and grammar should be perfect...What does this remind you of? The reliability of most of most (NOT all) of the cars listed here, perhaps?
Good film as a fitting epitaph for the British car industry. These are really horrible cars.
Nearly all of these cars were absolutely shite with the exception of the Imp and the Rover.
Only the Sd1 will be missed
0:36 Don't get me started on this fucker. The Acclaim was a total shitbox. Poor Civic,
Hubby has a '61 Austin Cambridge A55 MKII Wagon, only one on the road in NZ......apparently.
Hillman Hunter? Talbot Sunbeam?
Two cars that were actually good vehicles, covered all the basics well, were nice to drive, fast and reliable.
My dad had a "Hillman GT".
Loved it. Rev counter, Rostyle wheels, overdrive on 3rd & 4th. High-backed front seats.
It was only made for a year until it became the "Hillman Hunter GT", which had a different interior.
It was rare even when it was new.
It was a UK-only model AFAIK.
I think that only 2 exist in the world now.
My late Dad had a Hillman Hunter Handbrake was on the Drivers Right very strange I thought at the time
Hillman Avenger too ….
All the cars from those times rusted away so easily. Most were junk too. My parents were lucky enough to be able to change their cars every few years, and went for VW, Renault and Peugeot. The Allegro was the worst of the bunch though, uninspiring to drive, it looked like a hatchback but wasn't, square steering wheel, and you could see the ground through some of the panel gaps! A really poor design.
......and they all rusted away!
The title should be The top ten ugliest cars of the world. A few of thee oldest models looked good,but wow.....the 70’s put out thee worst designs ever,ugh. I need a pint of Guinness now.
What about the Talbot tagora. Less than 10 left I believe.
Morris Marina is missing from this list
where did all those cars go!! Victims of rust and salted roads I suppose.........
more likely they were scrapped during one of the governments scrappage schemes... so they could make it look like people were still buying new cars... like thet are doing for EVs right now, before that it was diesels, before that it was modern petrols... whats next? buy a Hydrogen car and scrap your current car for a huge reduction in price...
A lot of them became little piles of rust and returned to nature a lot faster than a compost heap.
I don't know about over there, but in America it's always the expensive cars that had the higher survival rate. Better build quality, more likely to be garage kept, and more likely to pass the cost/benefit analysis when it comes time for a pricey repair vs. scrapping them.
Very biased against BL cars,can't imagine there are to many rootes,Chrysler or Talbot cars left and not many Dagenham dustbins
The whole narrative of British decline needs a truely British car.
Dustbins only a handfull of em where made in Dagenham????
There's actually over 7,000 Cortinas left, with over 3,500 still on the road.
Very good point, you're far more likely to see a BL car on the road today than anything from Rootes-Chrysler-Talbot. Apart from Talbot motor homes!
Talbot motor homes are friggin everywhere still!
Whenever I see these lists it always reminds me of my hometown where just outside there's a farm and it's just filled with hoarded Mercedes. I reckon that there's more than 50 dating back to the 60s just sat there. I'd love to see if the owner would let me part with one maybe one day.
Acclaim. Lots of taxis so.....
Imp.... No tnx
Chevette.... Fun.
MG1100. Hydrogas suspension probs. Did not like wet weather. Bad drive couplings
METRO ok
Rover Electric faults
Maxi same as 1100
Viva GREAT box and fun handling
Princess.... Hahaha
Allegro..... Omg as Princess
The Triumph Acclaim was just a rebadged Honda Accord.
No it was the Honda ballade
Let's face it....... British Leyland Cars were Shite
Each to their own opinions. I had a Maxi 1500 FEA 764T and she did 280000 miles before the floor dropped out.
@@nickjervis8123 The 1800 was under powered, handled like a barge, and didn't like rain, just wouldn't run, the dizzy got wet.
@@TheTheotherfoot 2200 was a good motor. Each to his own. I liked the Leyland cars based on what I owned. Some use expletives to describe a car they have never driven and rely on what Clarkson said. For a 1960's car they were good. The 1100/1300 outsold the Cortina.
you could have included the Morris marina also, they are going down in numbers too. at least one can recognise these vehicles, the ones today all seem to be similar, especially the off roaders. I remember the SD1 being launched and always promised myself one, got a Granada MK2 instead, but an SD1 VDP would be a nice stable mate. And yes I have two marinas - coupe and pick-up, could easily add a van too, and a 3 litre,land crab, 1300.......DB5..........FAB 1 and so on
+Adrian Katsikides Morris Marinas, they have terrible trouble with descending pianos from memory. They epitomise the very reason the British car industry failed. A grey, miserable product, atrocious engineering and even worse build quality.
Really ? Not true mate, I have a Morris Marina 1.5 Diesel, 1976, body in remarkable condition considering its age, just been imported from Malta, a country surrounded by salt water
Race you around some tight corners in my 1972 Hillman Avenger. The Avenger set the standard to beat in road holding for family sized cars, until the front wheel drive Cavalier came along.
The Metro had good steering... good riddance to the rest.
The Metro ..rusted even if you just spat at it..
I was once given a metro when someone heard I was looking for a car to save my Oldsmobile from winter slush (it was either I took it or it went to the crusher anyway) about a week later I gave it away as well, what an utterly detestable crap box, why anyone would have purchased a new metro over a second hand VW polo for the same money simply astounds me.
Phil ..they weren't that bad ..yeah they rusted and tended to fall apart.. I had two GTA Metros ( UK version - if you are American then your Metro was different) .. Both a hell of a lot of Fun .. ..fairly easy to repair ..but just the bodywork let them down.
But many people I know when I passed my test had Metro's as their first car cos they were cheap and easy to run..Got to give it it's due If you got a good one it was fun. Saying that ..look at the prices of good condition Metros NOW.. sheesh I wish I had kept my GTA's
Metro ; fab visibility, great handling, acres of headroom and legroom for such a small car.
Sadly, ours started burning oil early on with low mileage.
Wings rotted easily and should have had plastic inner guards.
+Phil'O's Garage Polos are VW's Metro equivalent, a horrid little car. I cannot understand how VW managed to produce That at all.
All cars of this era were rust buckets
The demister never worked on these cars.
sorry but that music is bad
i have an Imp
Life in the Marina yet then?
not surprise there that many left.they were all rot box's after 7 years of use.
My brother has just resarected an all agro.one of the 300 left he has sprayed it baby shit green .he loves it .I'm an Audi A4 man myself.he hates my car .
lol
+Marvin Lewis Your brother needs medicated :D
Marvin Lewis If his *resurrection* skills are as bad as your spelling and grammar... I doubt it is capable of moving under it's own power. If your baby has green shit, consider taking it to hospital. Or get your eyes tested for colour blindness.
Hillman Imp, a disaster of a car, reliability was measured in hours. All because it wasn't built in the location Rootes wanted....??? Pfft, it sucked grit laden air from inside the rear engine compartment, and the aluminum suffered horribly from corrosion.
MG 1100, not an MG just a badge faked little land crab
Rover SD1, I always feel it would have fared better if it didn't have that discordant nose. It is neither classy, nor characterful. Looks more akin to a Chevette than any Rover
Allegro, sounds as good as it looks, a warmed over 1100, with all the charm of an unkissed frog.
These aren’t that rare.
Triumph Acclaim? Defeat, more like, that is a Honda Ballade...
No disrespect at all but I do think that the germans do it better. Sorry!
skoda estelle?
there are less than 10 on the road iirc
Each getting ready to oversteer off the road next time it rains.
Since when is Skoda British?
+George Jacob It is something to aspire to... Skoda quality
Was it known as the MG 1100? I always remember it being the Austin 1100 and 1300 and then 1800 (which I had) , never the MG brand.
In the 60's they had badge engineered versions of both the 1100/1300 and the 1800.
There were MG, Wolseley and Riley versions of the 100/1300 as well as Austin and Morris. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_ADO16 .
Sorry but again, Basil Fawlty did not have a Maxi I am quite sure, it was a Austin 1100 Countryman, the one he "thrashed"....thanks for the efforts anyway.
Had a Maxi in series 2. The anniversary episode.
Rootes group that should read.
TRIUMPH ACCLAIM ES UN HONDA. CIVIC 1982
Two words for ya'... Austin Ambassador.
Still available in India as the Hindustan Ambassador 😁 solid
Total rubbish! There are more endangered British cars than these out there. I have one for a start. MK2 Triumph Spitfire. If this was top trumps I win!