British Leyland ECV3 Concept Vehicle
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That car should've been a preview of the Austin Maestro, one of BL's few good cars
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It's like the guilty result of some behind the bike shed action between an SD1 and a Citroen CX with low self esteem.
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@magna59 G'day... Um, well there's quite a few "Rice Rockets" driving, where I live, that appear rather more "Bug-Looking"... So, they got that right ! The Aerofoil at the rear is set up to do what the Mk2 SunFoil does to the Brumby's Cabin Rear... Ie, Profile the Slipstream to cut the area of the Turbulent Burble behind the Flat Trailing Edge. Good Aerodyndmics. But, it still needs a SunFoil's Electric input, for Fuel Efficiency in daily use !
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Dam uggly but right. Such a shame.....we pissed it so far up the wall.
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Looks like a squashed Vauxhall Senator!
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@richardmaudsley77 yes a gearknob.
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@paulhunter123 I think it was the Daihatsu Charade that had a 3 cylinder diesel engine,and got into the Guiness Book Of Records for being the first production car to return 100 MPG.
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@turricaned yeah
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@MrJezza31 Remember this period also gave us design "classics" like the Sinclair C5 - it looked futuristic at the time. BL were in fact ahead of the curve here by quite some way. The 3-cylinder prototype engine evolved into the 4-cylinder K-Series, which despite it's reputation (gained from mechanics who didn't understand the design) was an engineering marvel and way ahead of it's time. Modern Japanese straight 4's are all essentially copies of the K-Series, but overengineered and heavier.
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@blaster2012 100 mpg fuel injected 3 cylinder this sounds ideal today
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kazimann 2 years ago 11
Definatly echoes of car design to come (by 1983 standards anyway) If British Leyland had lauched this car,maybe they would still be around today,with the radical Ford Sierra lauched a year earlier,BL could have held their own.100 MPG just shows what is possible,and how the big oil companies are stifling car development.
blaster2012 2 years ago 5