British Cars

[VladTepes]

Aston Martin, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Jaguar... some of the most beautiful and iconic cars of all time have come from the UK.


Nature however always enforces a balance...

10 Of The Worst Cars Ever Made In The UK

[Hooli]

I'm pretty sure another forum I'm on has people with versions of at least six of those! Some of them aren't that bad.

Vectras are still utterly wank mind.

[VladTepes]

Some of them aren't that bad.

False.

[Tony Nitrous]

"Vauxhall Viva's covered in rust,
but you can't f#ck ya bird on a 29 bus"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LrDzOwuOU

[VladTepes]

Back in the day...

A Triumph GT6 pulled alongside a Rolls-Royce at a traffic light.
"Do you have a car phone?" its driver asked the man in the Rolls.
"Of course I do," was the haughty reply.
"Do you have a fax machine?"
The Rolls driver sighed. "I have that too."
"Do you have a double bed in the back?" the GT6driver wanted to know.
Ashen-faced, the Rolls driver sped off.
That afternoon, he had a mechanic install a double bed in his car.
A week later, the Rolls driver passed the same GT6,parked on the side of the road with its back windows fogged up and steam pouring out.
The arrogant driver pulled over, got out of the Rolls and banged on the GT6's rear window. "I want you to know that I've had a double bed installed," bragged the Rolls driver.
The GT6 driver rolled his window down and frowned at the Rolls driver. "You got me out of the shower to tell me that?"

[grog]

early 70s i worked in AMI dealership. Aust. Motor Industries. Toyota, Triumph & Rambler. Triumph Stag had v8 motor, wrecked timing chains in no time, overheated in no time. End result was before they were sold NEW, we had to replace Triumph motors with Rover 3.5 motors. They came strapped to a pallett, all adapters supplied, was a set time to do this, wrty before sold. Not many got sold but amazed an 18 yr old me.

[Dusty ST]

Awful cars, yes, but I must admit I enjoyed my 1.8 Marina, in fact I liked it so much I traded it in for a top spec  Ital 1.8HLX, the updated and face lifted Marina.
I commuted to work for around 10 years in them, they weren't worth anything so carefree motoring for peanuts.
When the the Ital broke it's back axle, it ended up with one out of the van variant, which had a lower ratio giving acceleration to pick up enough speed to challenge it's marginal brakes after a couple of corners of spirited driving, and the easy tail out drifting through corners on skinny (155 section?) tyres was always a hoot.

[grog]

Dusty, i worked at a place in Brisbane 1975. We had the last 100 Marinas made in Oz. 2.6 litre 6 cyl motors. 3 speed on the floor. Sold with skinny little cross ply tyres. Such fun on a damp road. Just a dangerous car. Very bad quality, Could do 160 ks at redline in 3 rd. Everything on them just broke. We had 3 stripped for parts in first few weeks.

[Daytona]

I remember my work mate getting his first car in the 80s,it was a orange marina,he duly went down the garage to fill it up with fuel ,when he left the garage it's a very steep uphill climb where he lost almost every bit of petrol he'd put in due to a massive corroded hole in the rear of the tank,

[Dusty ST]

2.6 litre 6 cyl motors. 3 speed on the floor. Sold with skinny little cross ply tyres. Such fun on a damp road.

2.6 Litre Oh yes... 

The other absolutely brilliant thing I remember about Marinas was the radio, angled away from the driver.
https://goo.gl/images/giEXL9

[Cykik]

Austin Princess & Maxi failed to make the list!!!!

[MarkN]

My father always had Hillmans - who can remember them? The last ones he had were a Hunter, his only new car in 1973, then an Avenger, a truly awful car - 1300cc, no acceleration and the needle on the speedo wobbled from side to side that much that you never knew what speed you were really doing. I managed to get him to buy a Ford Cortina when his beloved Hillmans became defunct but he then swapped that for a Vauxhall Cavalier. I think I preferred the Hillmans to Vauxhalls. I gave up with him and cars after that.

[Kiwifruit]

Leyland P76, Austin Kimberly, add those two to the list. I was doing rust repairs on Rover 200's before the were sold as new. 

One of the best cars, and l had two of them was the old Austin Cambridge.......the 9 seater. Well thats how many of us got around in it on my stag night. Just put gas in, never changed the oil. It did that itself.

The Austang 

[Speedy1959]

This was my first car donated by my Boss at the time to errr get me off motorbikes !!!

[Dusty ST]

My father always had Hillmans - who can remember them? The last ones he had were a Hunter,

I used to have a Corgi model of the rally Hunter, blue and white (I think, might have been blue with black bonnet) with a tool box and spare wheels on the roof. Not sure why Corgi made this version, did it win a championship or something?