Cars have definitely changed

Blige!

So, Morris had MG [Morris Garages]{should it now be MGM for 'MG Motor' }, Ford had Lotus, Merc had(have) AMG [Aufrecht, Melcher and Großaspach], BMW had(have) M [Motorsport] ... any others?

Cheers, T i m

In the late 1960s there was a Hillman Imp with "Lotus Twin Cam " badge on the back - seen in motor rally events. The engine tool up much of the rear seat.

Which means Bosch IS the genuine VW part.

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Barber: "Your hair is getting grey." Customer: "Try cutting a little faster."

Funny, my garage fitted the Golf ABS sensor (genuine part) and didn't ch= arge much over the part cost, so nothing major to be done.

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This has come up before, and it has been stated that shorter battery life has not been observed.

Austin Metropolitan is a strong contender.

Oh no, that's verging on cool. ;-)

Tim

That was a 50s car though, and didn't look much worse than the rest of the crop from that era.

It was an oddity, a car commissioned by a North American manufacturer for the North American market but built for them by a foreign company, only later were Austin allowed to sell it in the UK and some other markets. The full story is quite long.

That article contains this quote By British standards it looked "awful", according to Autocar, but Nash were "very pleased with it".

So it raised mixed opinions even then.

G.Harman

Americans were treated to the Aztec:

and the AMC Gremlin:

Quote: "The Gremlin was faster than other subcompacts of the time. Motor Trend magazine recorded zero to 60 mph (0 to 97 km/h) in 12.6 seconds with the 232 cu in (3.8 L) engine. "

Shudder.

Oh dear. Your ignorance is showing again dear.

Oh yes they do

A sort of reliant Robin for the yanks...

You ok?

Mate, you don't seem to have grasped this whole 'discussion' thing have you and that many people are quite happy to tell the truth and not go off and Google everything to pretend they knew everything.

Like, because I know you are a left brainer ... and from your history here (especially recently) your reply was both expected and predictable (and sad of course). ;-(

Now, I could have corrected your posting elsewhere where you mention 'reliant Robin' because you probably think the term 'reliant' means it's 'reliable' rather than referring to the manufacturer, 'Reliant' but I'm not you so I didn't. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

p.s. At least it' wasn't as bad as those who say 'Robin Reliant' and that includes many who really should know better! I wonder if they would also say 'Corsa Vauxhall' or 'Duke Nissan'?

Regularly voted "ugliest car ever made".

AMC seems to jhave made a speciality of this kind of thing;

And I'd argue the Pacer was uglier than the Gremlin.

Cross-ply tyres, drum brakes and floppy American suspension. I agree.

Really? Some very handsome UK cars in the '50s. MG Magnette. Riley RM series. Even the large Fords were OK. Then loads of smaller makers like Alvis and Lea Francis. Before the elegant offering of Rolls, etc.

The Nash Metropolitan was hideous then as now. A UK designer's attempt at a scaled down US car incorporating all the worst aspects of them.

The modern equivalent would be those small Japanese pastiches of classic designs.

Not really. MG developed into a car maker in its own right in the '30s - even although by that time it came under the Nuffield wing. With unique bodies as well as modified mainstream mechanicals.

The others you quote just produce high performance versions of a standard car.

Yeahbut so it *was* just a fancy arm of the main production cars (like the others I mentioned) and I was wondering (as you know cars) if there were any other makes that had similar, OOI?

Cheers, T i m

Think of the police Wolseley 6/90s in the old Ealing films. My father had a 4/44.