The Vanden Plas Allegro may have been the worst car out of Britain.
Best and worst cars to come out of British Leyland?
Kevin Lee
Andrew Thompson
Did they make any good cars? At all?
Carson Lee
Bump for shitty cars
James Morgan
They didn't make near as many shitters as burgerland did. Not much to choose from.
James Bell
Their cars also weren't 'catch on fire randomly' bad, but they WERE 'bits fall off semi-randomly' bad from what I've been told.
My sole experience was the Leyland gearbox fitted to an old Peugeot my mother owned when I was a kid. It had a hard time starting in hot and cold weather, it crunched when it wasn't happy, the clutch squealed when it got wet and then, eventually, nearly constantly, and it often took fiddling with the choke to make it run properly.
It also finally died on a road trip, hauling the fully laden car up a steep hill. Much less reliable after that, but still ran for a few years after being sold.
Tyler James
I saw a documentary about them, apparently they were constantly getting sent to dealerships unfinished because lazy bongs went on strike. Shit like that never happened with the big 3.
Dylan Morales
>'catch on fire randomly'
yes they were
TVR made many a car-shape suicide contraption
David Parker
>never happened with the big 3
No, they just knowingly sent out literal death machines and refused to recall them.
Joseph Bennett
Nobody thinks "American car=death trap" after a few unsafe cars got made. Leyland actually had a bad reputation from the sounds of it.
Elijah Ramirez
During the Malaise Era it was common knowledge that American cars were all gas-sucking shitbarges.
Nicholas Hughes
t. Euroshit
American compacts were still well liked.
Noah Clark
I'm a Burger, actually.
Ah, you must mean the Pinto.
Gavin Butler
>Names the one bad one
Try again shill
Carter Johnson
AMC Gremlin
AMC Pacer
Chevy Chevette
Elijah Perry
Yes
Evan Young
>Pintos
>Bad
The first model year or so. After the whole gas tank thing was fixed, they were okay cars.
Landon Martinez
>AMC Gremlin
>AMC Pacer
The only thing bad about these cars is their fuel mileage.
Hunter Myers
Anything triumph is bad
Especially the dolomite
Gabriel Walker
The gt6 is one of the best looking British cars
Under the skin it's pretty garbage desu, but dat roof line....
Josiah Jackson
Jace James
Does the Mini count?
Caleb Myers
>See this
>Look it up because it seems rad
>Australia
I knew Leyland of UK couldn't build a barge this cool.
Christopher Wright
They hardly sold that well here given they came out just as the oil crisis hit.
Bentley Stewart
I had a feeling they didn't sell well, suprised I never heard of it even as a burger, I like Aussie shit (Have had a minor interest since seeing an imported XB as a kid) so I've looked into it quite a bit, this thing went completely under my radar. I kind of like it.
Well it is the quintessential British car, and one of the few things they did right.
Ryan Brown
>Nobody thinks "American car=death trap"
That's what a lot of the world thinks (see explorer tires, Crown Vic unrequested acceleration, explorer unrequested acceleration, Pinto exploding, GM engines falling out, Ford's park to reverse killer, chevy pickup side impact explosions, electrical fires in every 1992-2004 Ford, Jeep's killer none parking brake), and the new mustang getting a lower NCAP score than Chinky cars hasn't changed that.
Carter Jackson
Minis are only good because everyone was piss poor and needed something cheap
Their literal death traps
Lincoln Cruz
Yeah and sometimes being good at basic cheap transportation is something worth being loved for, look at the Twingo (The smile also helps).
Also Mini's have some good history behind them with their racing victories as well, everyone likes a david and golaiath tale, and no one cars too much about the safety as everything from that era was dogshit in that regard anyways.
Isaac Lopez
I'm using this thread as an opportunity to show my shitbox which is THE worst "car" ever made. British Leyland cannot compete.
Oliver Richardson
Not even a burger but BL was the biggest lump of shit in the history of auto makers. Everyone just went on strike and did a shit job of building cars.
Easton Hughes
Has Phil Oakey ever helped tip it back onto its wheels for you?
Christopher Miller
So far it's only ever reached 45 degrees round a mini roundabout, but after changing the dampers it's better. But I can trust Phil Oakley to get me out of trouble in future.
Wyatt Peterson
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is what burgercucks actually believe.
Julian Collins
Having owned 4 classic Minis I can tell you that yes, they absolutely are a death trap. There is basically a sheet of metal between you and certain death if you hit (or get hit by) anything bigger than a cat. I can also tell you though that the initial idea for the Mini was to provide a cheap way for the district nurses to get around and see their patients. It also came about because of a worldwide fuel shortage, nothing to do with everyone being piss poor it wasn't the bloody depression anymore. Hell every celebrity in Britain had to have one because they were just that good.
Adam Jackson
Best has got to be the p76.
V8 powered family car with a boot big enough for a 44 gallon drum and more.
Tyler Johnson
> Light weight due to fibreglass
> No car license needed
> Fast and agile
They're still around today.
James Lewis
Speaking of Celberties in Britan, and Mini coopers, David Bowie, before he was famous actually installed windows on Mini's for awhile.
also clubman's are neat. something so wrong and right about the boxy front end.
Nathaniel Wright
At least the spontaneous combustion and trying to eject passengers is long gone, oh.
Evan Torres
But that's Ford USA. Ford Europe is better now.
Isaiah Taylor
Wow, had no idea Bowie worked in the factory.
I don't mind the Clubmans either, my first Mini was a 1275 LS Clubman. The best thing about them is they have slightly more room in the engine bay, which is great for shoving a 4EFTE in there.