TV advert British Leyland Morris Marina 70s
TV advert British Leyland Morris Marina 70s
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Who in their right mind would buy a Marina when you could get a Cortina?
You’re v. unlikely to see a broken down Marina anywhere cos they tend to be Sunday cars with enthusiast owners.
Yes maybe…..looking like a tosser on the side of the road broken down. Come on its not exactly pretty is it
Ppl who go on about marinas being crap are missin the point entirely. Modern life is so sterile that we WANT a primitive machine where you can hear the engine and feel the bumps
Not as bad as the Allegro but way behind the Cortina in terms of looks and driving ability. The Ital that replaced it, while cheap and easy to maintain, was very outclassed.
i know someone who had one of theese
it turns out one of the pistons was in upside down but it still worked for 25000 miles!
What crap cars
Sadly British Leyland’s workers decided that Marina was for bourgoisie dogs and failed to put them together properly.
you are a doofus aren’t you. i mean, who in their right mind would watch a vid about bl. it was crap!
down with the Morris Marina and the Morris Marina club! MWHAHAHAH! hope a piano lands on all of em xD
The worst car, ever. There was one problem with british leyland – goverment…
I have a Morris Marina gear box in my ’75 TR7, I’ve been told. It rattles a bit in 1st, but it’s still working almost 35 yrs. later. That says something.
I was thinking more of the later 90′s and the models up to the demise of the company,my old company ran MG Rover cars as company vehicles very few problems on all 20+ cars,and a strange thing about the Rover 800 was that when Clarkson did a Top Gear feature on it he quite liked it.
iIbelieve that most of the Communists in MGR went with Red Robbo or stuff
Sorry all the cars were total rubbish, nailed together by inept work shy communists. I was invited to test drive the Rover range at a country house near Nottingham, the handling on the Rover 800 Turbo was quite frankly dangerous, making a mockery of the ad campaign comparing the car to German products. The only reason the Rover 75 was half decent was because it was based on the excellent E39 5 Series BMW.
Once the old models had gone,and the new Rover cars came in (even the Metro as the Rover 100) things were so much better,looks build,performance and quality were all part of the NEW cars being manufactured.
And perhaps the the best Rover ever the 75,i had a MG ZT company car for a while fantastic was the only word for it,the local police liked them too,good value well built and FAST.
Great shame that MG Rover was allowed to go under,would any other country in the world have let this happen?
During the late 80-s and early 90-s they recovered from the BL-nightmare and made some very nice and good cars.
However and sadly TOO LATE.
The Japanese had firmly taken over their previous market, never to leave it again, so they manufactured their cars for storage on ever increasing factory parking lots.
Excellent comments,
The British car manufacturers lost there way,or in a pursuit for greater profits let the product quality slip and became only as good or as poor in many cases as the rest.
They were dreadfully slow in reading market needs,the Japanese were not,they offered,5 speed gearboxes,radio/cassettes,cloth seats,tinted glass and all manner of other extras as standard,and yes you got a lot more for you money,and even far better trade-in allowances on your old car.
But they rusted.
The continental customers were used to the fact that British made cars stood for a quality product and value for money.
This WAS the case untill the late 60´s, but after that they failed to continue this. The trouble with BL was not that their cars were worse than the European competition, but that they failed to make better cars than them, as the British did before.
The Japanese however DID and snatched their market; the end of British automotive industry.
You don’t seem to know the difference between a statement of fact and a rant.
Now because you swallowed the lie Top Gear fed you,and i set you straight on the facts you say i’m boring,if that’s the case what does that make you for drawing attention to this?
Your Messiahs lied to you and you accepted this without question,sheer blind faith and stupidity on your part,i have told you the truth and you don’t like it so you name call,because you are gullible grow up and make up your own mind.
You must be the most boring person on the planet. I bet your rants put people to sleep.
someone drop a piano on it already for gods sake. Or even better blow it up.
Well as the old saying goes “you get what you pay for!
I paid £80 for an S-reg 1.8(was a 1.3 and still had diff and gearboxes) after I passed my test in 1988.I was done!Plough on understeer changing without any warning to underpant filling oversteer.I spent so much time looking out the back window to see where I was going or what I was going to hit, I considered moving the window wipers!Well named though.Mine filled up with water whenever it rained.Or would have done if large parts of the floor hadn’t been missing.
What all this rubbish about only one dial?
Even the base model mk1 cars had two,separate dials,and higher spec cars had on the mk1′s three dials and on the mk2/3 and Ital’s four dials,never ever has any of them had only ONE DIAL!
When people repeat these inaccuracies as fact it just shows you how gullible they really are are,James May said this on TG and now it is quoted as fact WRONG! the mk 1800 Special he drove had three dials (and one blank) water temp,speedo,fuel gauge.
far from it