Nash Metropolitan 1954 filmstrip for dealers 'The Inside Story of the Metropolitan'

[@whatsamattayu3257]

Love the beep of the film strip. Reminds me of watching educational film strips in my grammar school days.

[@chrisbrown3925]

A friend of mine rolled his mom's convertible metro 3 times, bent some wheels, tore the top, but the car was only deeply scratched, doors opened fine, didn't even crack the windshield! One tough little car!

[@keithlibner9259]

41 mpg in 1954!!! Where did we go wrong?

[@nlpnt]

There was no standard test protocol, so that means it can be hypermiled to 41 mpg, or at best that's a steady 45-50 mph figure. Since its' introduction in the '70s the EPA highway gas mileage test has been revised to give "more realistic" (read:lower) numbers twice - in 1985 with a mathematical formula and in 2008 by stipulating the test be run with a/c on and at a higher speed than had been feasible on a dyno when the original test protocol was drawn up.

[@josephbingham1255]

4:47 Typical British engine of the time.