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😅
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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.... 😢
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.
This film makes it all sound like it was well planned but the result was a massive debacle that resulted in the investment needed for the car being 3× the budget which meant it had no hope to recover its investment in its short 3 to 4 year shelf life
