Why are the British so good at making cars? How can other countries even compete?

Why are the British so good at making cars? How can other countries even compete?

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Hand built in Britain is just another way of saying that the door will fall off.

because they have germans plants and engineers now.

>How can other countries even compete?

They can't. They don't.

Thank you, Clarkson.

>Based British engineers even include dynamic weight savings in their designs

Jolly good, chap !

The P1 looks great.

>but the 918 Spyder is superior in almost every way

Better than catching fire in a crash. Or randomly. Or exploding when crashed. Or rolling over in a crash, or when encountering a corner.
'Hand built in detroit' means legendary GM build quality.

The only thing that could apply to is non-hand built economy cars though. Not the viper or corvette (don't think the corvette is actually hand-built)

I think you mean British*.

*owned by an East Asian company.

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>Aston Martin Vantage
>Aston Martin Vulcan
>Aston Martin Valkyrie
The only thing they're good at is names

rememeber the last time a british car won Le Mans?

Also this is now a plane thread

Is there a name for British cars that have this kind of design?

"russian"

The school of design for Absolute Madmen

suicidal

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"Slower than a Corvette"

dogshit

Ultimate fun

just are

why tho

A real sagaris is 20x the price of an NA

there's also a bunch of shells so you can make your own tvr

you can get this for the price of a new MX-5
or a chimaera or cerbera for less

I was never really a fan of the Tuscan's design. I never liked the light design or that grille. Just looks like a painted heat guard.

The Sagaris on the other hand. Oh baby.

by taking their cars and modifying them

Well, Jaguar, McLaren, Bentley, and Ford UK have all done very well at various times in the past.

The only thing cUKs do is making those absolute madman cars like:

McLaren F1 GT long tail
TVR Tuscan Speed 12
Aston Martin Vulcan

Even if they're owned by a foreign company, does it make them less British? I think the British are, as a country, the greatest. They got Jaguar, Lotus. TVR, McLaren, Caterham, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, Bentley, BAC. Not lisint Land Rover and Mini because they're are trash.

Pic related, my dream car.

How is no one talking about the lotus 7?

Probably the best car ever made.

My dream car is a clubman of some description.

By running longer than 15 seconds

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Brits make the most stylish, classy, cool, beautiful, memorable, and full of character cars on the planet. When it comes to building cars as an artform, they are second to none. Problem is that, ultimately, a car has to get you from A to B, and while their reliability has improved immensely over the last couple of decades (partly thanks to foreign capital), they're still somewhat behind the japs and even the yanks in that department.

I think it's pretty safe to say that in general British cars are some of the best looking yet never performing as good as they look (with the exception of McLaren and the F-Type).

>Triumph
>Mg
>Austin
All those are kill

>Jag
>Land Rover
Curry shit
McLaren is the only British manufacturer and they get btfod by the Germans

>Aston Martin
>Noble
>Caterham
>TVR
>Ginetta
>Ariel
>Morgan
>BAC
>Caparo
>Radical
>Ultima
That's off the top of my head, I'm sure there's a few more I missed.

This

I don't think people understand the concept behind ownership and design/engineering.

There are people on Veeky Forums that genuinely believe the Indians who bought JLR, rolled up their sleeves and started designing, building and engineering new JLR products and likewise for other brands

>the parts falling off these cars are of the finest British manufacture

there's nothing british about modern "british" cars

>Lotus
Lots
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Serious