Leyland Cars advert from 1976/77

A fantastically cheesy advert from 1976/77 for Rover, Triumph, MG and other British Leyland cars

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Rover
• MG
• Austin
• Triumph
• Jaguar
• Mini

[EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME]

LEYLAND CARS!!!

[kazimann]

Had the workers at BL hadn't been so useless or been on strike half of the time, BL could have made some seriosuly world beating cars.

Shame really how it all ended up.

[TheWolfie6]

Really posh sounding bloke in the advert ,only problem was build quality was crap they were rust buckets as soon as you bought them,plus at this era of time foreign cars were starting to flood in to Britain BL should have upped their game but they didn't thats why it went down the pan.They had no idea of how to produce quality cars.

[quarkwrok]

@MrChubbleyWarner Well i'm just about old enough to remember when people said French and Italian cars were rust buckets. But I guess people believe what they want to believe.

[MrChubbleyWarner]

@kernals12 - absolutely never....maybe a pilot...no, he would say three, five, zero, zero...so it's still a no

[MrChubbleyWarner]

@quarkwrok ...and France!

[AlannTH]

Urgg leyland, my back hurts when I say that. I pushed enough of them in the 80s on cold starts. My mates dad had a princess, lets say more then a few times we had to take the bus.

[DecaturCentaur]

First and only new car was a Jag XJS V-12....still have it, 237,000 miles...original engine, never re-built, original trans, original interior(other than those piece of shit felt headliners, but all newer cars have those)...only problem(other than a passenger side electric window-which mysteriously fixed itself) was the GM built air-conditioner(GMs' best) had to replace everything 4 times(compressor, evaporator, etc.). All-in-all a wonderful, dependable(with proper care), fast GT.

[vicsmith5000]

Notice how they didn't highlight the Morris Marina. Basically because it had no selling points.

[blade0954]

leyland cars rusted no worse than ford or vauxhalls of the time,i had a mark 2 escort 1.6 gl,in hearing aid beige, nowadays i refer to it as a "flintstones car"

[kernals12]

do brits ever say thirty-five-hundred?

[quarkwrok]

Used to see a lots of Allegro's running around a few years back. Decades after bigger-selling Fords and Vauxhalls had bitten the dust. Maybe there were some reliability and rust problems but all cars in the 70's had that - and I bet most/all of the comments doing the BL cars down are people who never owned/drove one. Shame the whole strikes and troubled car-maker bit put people off and made them steer clear of the cars until Rover finally bit the dust. So now our money goes to Germany and Japan.