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1:20 😍

Go for conventional suspension, but make the car look good.

Beggars belief that any engineer would think hydragas was any good. Bumps and bangs worse than McPherson strut.

Great car morris marina

Square steering wheel. Love it. Didn't last long though.

Rover 35000 V8 S like my father had please.

Would have a Marina TC.

Marina was not their finest hour. Parts of it were based on the Minor 1000.

Love it. Never worked out why on launch they had both Austin and Morris versions though.

Just look at these heaps, there isn't one single design feature that leaps out as unique, different, appealing or even, heaven forbid, exciting!! The different trim levels were identified by more garish wheel trims, a bit more tacky chrome and badging, wow, what an achievement! Compare it to a Ford Escort of the time! I remember there was a bloke where I worked at the time, I'd only just started work, about 1977, one day he turned up in a 1.8 TC coupe Marina, in orange with a black vinyl roof, brand new. There was a crowd around it gaping and cooing over it. He said it was his dream car, and I remember thinking, sad bugger!!! I'd made a friend at this place and he used to help me out with lifts now and then, he had a Saab 95 V4, which I thought was way cool, made the Marina look cr4p!

Who ever saw a Marina and said" 'cor, I'd love one of those"? No one! The American guy in the planning meeting mentioned the Ford Capri and Cortina as their competition, so how the hell did they think the Marina would challenge those?! There isn't one single car that came out of BMC, BLMC or BL with any merit whatsoever, except for the Morris Minor and the Mini. And what did they have in common, Alec Issigonis, he knew what he was doing, no one after him in the British motor industry did. Other epic sh1t heaps were the wonder wedge Princess, the Allegro, very popular in Italy for some reason, the Maxi, and the Land Crab, just dire lumps of misery!

Just a new body on ancient Morris Minor mechanicals. Didn't even develop longer doors for the coupe

4:28 You can always rely on a good pare of legs to sell a car!

The opening slogan at the start with the drawn out noise - pre dates the THX sound by about 8 years - BL could have made a fortune in copyright infringements😅

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Old technology car. Lever arm suspension at the front, cart springs at the rear. Just like an old Morris Minor. Old A and B series engined. The Marina was doomed to fail.

What a load of bullshit.

Morris minor in drag

You can't polish a turd no matter how hard you rub it.

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The Allegro wasn't a bad car as such, most probably lasted 15 years and did 100k miles fairly reliably (easy to fix). BL became a symbol of all that was wrong with Britain; poor leadership, the Unions and stodgy image. Joining the EEC meant lots of more attractive options which weren't actually that much better but the image was. The irony is that the corrosion resistance was much better than contemporary Jap, Italian and French cars.

Great car but sad year with Elvis passing away

Clock. Mirrors. Lighter. Omg.

If only the car was as good as the film

I had an MG Metro Turbo....... It was truly the worst car I ever had. The interior rattled like marbles in a tin can. It wasn't that fast and the clutch always juddered. Just to mention a few of the problems. But you live and learn and bought Japanese after that and never regretted it!

Have you ever heard such propaganda. Quality… yeah right. It rusted away, had terrible crash protection, awful reliability and sounded like a sowing machine. My dad had one of these. I wanted to like the Mini Metro but compared to the likes of the Ford Fiesta or Nissan Micra and similar cars, it was not great. I think people only purchased these because of allegiance to British manufacturing and nostalgia.

This meeting is the beginning of the end for BL.

Why does she buy right hand drive car in France ?

He is rather unattractive. And the rear wheels lock up too.

Flawed and badly built. The metro was typical of BL cars atrocious products. The driving position was awful and the steering wheel placement was offset and uncomfortable. The cars rotted within months, not years of being sold from new,!! BL knew that the front air valance behind the registration plate particularly rotted really severely and quickly and did nothing to rectify it for years. Crap cars that lost their admirers because of dismal build qualty.

1:02 careful with that starter motor, it sounds as though the teeth are worn and/or misaligned. Please be sure to repair it (if it *_really_* hasn't been used in all this time), otherwise you're going nowhere fast!

Another pile of crap ,

Pile of crap terrible cars ,

They'd be in court nowadays over these lies, falsehoods.

In music Allegro means lively, cheerful & quick...

My late grandfather had one of these bought new 1972 and he passed on10 years later in 1982 we all thought it was a heap of rubbish now it's worth more in2023 !! I was wrong 😢

A very middle class male design committee.

It was and still is a beautiful looking car ❤

We gotta show British Leyland some love. They might have messed up in a lot of ways, but you can't fault them for trying.

Soo timeless just like the masterpiece Range Rover designed by David and Csk.

A perfect goulash of misfortune and poor oversight/management. It was designed to replace ADO16, so a hatch was deemed superfluous, despite the emergence of the R5 and others. The sleek front end was a victim of the decision to fit the E Series motor... Itself a victim of the odd (originally tax-driven) British fascination with long-stroke engines. There were so many other calamities that the Allegro stood little chance on the domestic market and none at all as an export. The R5, the 127, the Golf, the Polo (Audi 50) and many more besides were designed for the European (even global) market. The Allegro was designed for Welwyn Garden City, and any chance export opportunities would be a nice little bonus. Despite the Gentlemen's Agreement, the launch coincided with the arrival of serious competitors from Japan at serious prices. Poor old Allegro. A year into production, a used late-model 1100 or 1300 was still a superior car on almost every respect.... 😢

Junk that’s all

Dirty stalker

Haha the old car was already bought and paid for years before and 2 years later the new Rover would be old model still paying the HP debt double the cash value!

Look at the putrid pink interior with fake wooden dash and a kitchen clock. It's like an Australian's worst nightmare. Comparing Concorde to anything made by BL is like comparing The Space Shuttle to a Washing Machine.

I left school in 1977 and my fathr bought a V8-S in 1980......It was a love affair for him!

The husband is much better looking.

He’s just a sex pest in a posh car.

He’s so unattractive. 😂

Broken down Volvo gets rescued 😀