Who Killed the British Motor Industry pt 2

A Clarksonesque Top Gear look at the demise of British Leyland segments from the 70s 80s & 90s
Key Words: Mini Morris Austin Allegro Triumph Rover London Taxi International Car Clarkson BMC Death longbridge BMW Herbert

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Education

Tags:

• Engineering
• Business
• Economics

[ScLeCo]

GM pisses me off, they Fuck up so many great cars and then replace them with shit. Fat upper management just a big fat mess that we have to pay for.

[theGetRealGuy]

you mean the weak and stupid Management being bailed out by an equally weak and stupid Government part?

[finmarc]

@BayAreaOrBust

for they (the brits I mean) drink their beer in warm condition (and so did I when on visit) I cant tell if they were any good

[BayAreaOrBust]

@finmarc Were they any good? I be not

[BayAreaOrBust]

GM and British Leyland have to be two of some of the biggest industrial distaters in history.

[finmarc]

British Leyland even built refrigirators (saw one at a brit soldiers`kitchen)

[kernals12]

I'm trying to think which BL brands are proportionate to which GM brands, let's try this

Morris= Chevrolet

Rover= Buick

MG= Pontiac

Austin= Oldsmobile

Jaguar/Daimler= Cadillac

Mini= Saturn

[Capitanvolume]

@ScLeCo Thats true marketing people designed GM cars, that fucked everything up because instead of saying

"Well lets do this because it's better" they said "No, lets do this because we'll make more money"

[AgCCannonFodder]

Hmm British Leyland is a good analogy for the European Union

[WAYNE1977100]

Austin Allegro vs Morris Marina which one would i choose as my new car if i was buying one in the 70s. I think i will go for a nice new mk3 Ford Cortina 2000E in Roman Bronze with tobacco vinyl roof and those nice steel sports road wheels.

[mustang6172]

This part gives the appearance that the American makes had the opposite problems of British makes: American cars would be rebadged two or three times with no mechanical difference between a Chevy and a Pontiac, a Ford and a Mercury, or a Dodge and a Plymouth.

[MNExotics]

How come that marina didn't have a piano dropped on it? I thought that was standard feature.