The 8 MOST HATED British Cars of the 1960s

The 8 MOST HATED British Cars of the 1960s - What Went So WRONG?

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@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587 Ай бұрын

The Allegro, Marina and Stag all came out in the 1970s

@sonnylatchstring Ай бұрын

The Amphicar wasn't British at all. It was German designed and build.

@obelic71 Ай бұрын

correct only in the early 2000's a few Ford Fiesta's with a full ABS plastic monocoque was produced in the UK . It was called in the press the new Amphicar. It was even tested in Top Gear.

@Gretschbeach Ай бұрын

Did German company purchase Triumph Herald tooling and make them there or did they just use a herald as a mould?

@obelic71 Ай бұрын

@@Gretschbeach Chrysler bought the Roots group and Simca/Matra in Europe in 1967 So i think Trippel (German engineer of the Amphicar) bought engines and drivetrains directly from the Roots group. Kit cars is an old tradition in the UK so building a car with parts from several manufacturers is not a strange thing.

@tomdrives Ай бұрын

Two questions: Can you post your sources? And what permissions did you get for the videos you used?

@swanvictor887 Ай бұрын

the computer says :Nope and None!

@Disinterested1 Ай бұрын

"man bearings seizing up" sums up the information in this AI generated trash

@sonnylatchstring Ай бұрын

About the Alegro. Most modern super cars nowadays haven't got a round steering wheel either. So what was the problem anyways??????

@cuscoothriyas5163 Ай бұрын

It's just horrible, especially back in the days before power steering

@sonnylatchstring Ай бұрын

You should stop wasting people's time with this uploaded nonsense

@EVISEH Ай бұрын

The Marinia was a stop gap design intended to be in production and on sale while BMC was developing more modern designs. As such it was only ever meant to be built and sold for a few years but because Leyland, after it's takeover of BMC, terminated the new designs under development by BMC, the Marina was forced to soldier on in to the early eighties. Whilst it had a reputation for rusting, its rusting was no worse than its Ford and Vauxhall competition. The only flaw the Marina had was it used outdated lever arm dampers as part of of the steering and front suspension geometry and when these wore, road holding and steering deteriorated. Leyland however later redesigned the front suspension to use telescopic dampers which cured those deficiencies.

@jochlagrange Ай бұрын

This is such a bad, inept video. Most hated British cars - the clue is in the title yet you show cars that weren't british and weren't hated.

@willeboppa Ай бұрын

"The poor mans Thunderbird" The Ford Corsair was an total disaster🤣🤣

@peterstudley1804 Ай бұрын

I don't agree , the BMC / BRITISH LEYLAND farina bodied cars = ie the morris Oxford, austin Cambridge, wolseley 16/60, riley 4/72 , MG magnette, were hugely popular cars with comfortable interiors, large boots , duo tone paint , they could be found on every street, exported world wide and as knock down kits , and the Cambridge and Oxford could also be bought in estate forms. And the morris Oxford and wolseley 16/60 were still in production well into 1971 , that is not a hated car. it's quintessential England at its best.

@Phiyedough Ай бұрын

I had an Allegro and have driven a Marina quite a bit, both good cars. Vauxhalls were more hated because of rust problems. This video is total nonsense.

@stephenmanning1553 Ай бұрын

Drove a Morris Marina for 3-4 years delivering newspapers. Fantastic car, heaps of room for me and the dog and could load 100s of bundles of newspapers in it. Only one fault that annoyed me!!!! didn't like starting in cold or damp weather IN ENGLAND!!. The one or two hot days we had in Wiltshire was a dream. Love to Cindy, my very capable copilot of many years ago.

@TheWacoKid1963 Ай бұрын

My first car was a 1.8 mk2 Marina, the one with the curved dash

@ivormacadam Ай бұрын

I have a photograph of the mileometer on my Marina, just outside Gatwick Airport. A full set of nines ! A hundred thousand miles. And still going.

@Cjmatthews87 Ай бұрын

Being a proud brit its absolutely infuriating we could of had amazing car companies but always is bad management bad engines and bad designs!

@laetiziacoronet243 Ай бұрын

Could've had a good video instead of this badly informed AI crap

@Cjmatthews87 Ай бұрын

@@laetiziacoronet243 absolutely 💯 but what gets me is the amount of this bs AI content its misleading zero effort has gone into it and then they get rewarded. Just like todays "singers" ai writes the song software sings the song software is tge instrumental too so what has the person done f all. And you make a great point 👍

@jehib8533 Ай бұрын

Do you know what is preposterous? This video! Of the 8 cars you claim were the "most hated British cars of the 1960s", one is actually German (albeit with a British engine), several may have been conceived in the 60s but were actually only sold in the 70s, and you mention the Riley twice (it may have been updated, but there was no fundamental difference).

@scroggins100 Ай бұрын

The fact is, unless you know what you are doing with a spanner, or have a good mechanic and deep pockets ALL Classics are a expensive proposition. IF however, you are a fan and know your way around a classic car then they are just the thing for you. Whatever, make they are.

@ivormacadam Ай бұрын

This vid is utter and complete bollux.

@MrJpsspecial Ай бұрын

I had 2 stags & only 1 gave any trouble by knocking a bigend out which I fixed after no more trouble no overheating.

@brianmac1 Ай бұрын

The most reliable cars of the era were the conventional British Fords, Anglia and Cortina. Mechanically pretty well indestructible (I know I tried hard!!), bodies not the toughest and prone to rust but overall got one from A to B every time even while being driven unsympathetically.

$@iffracem$

@iffracem Ай бұрын

I think every car of that era rusted pretty bad.

@normandunckley3926 Ай бұрын

1.00 -1.04 Is not a Riley - that's a rehashed/modified Austin Cambridge A60 ( well done though, bumper over riders, and chrome work not in keeping with time period). BTW the Austin A40 - 1961's Americas No2 most loved "import" after the VW Bettle. 1961 popular mechanics & 1962 Popular Science ( I have the copies here). So much so, it's where VW used its concept to create/develop the Golf/rabbit. Considering they sold 1.2million Marina's they couldn't of been that hated.

@anemone104 Ай бұрын

What went wrong? 3 of the eight came out in the '70s and one I'd never heard of so couldn't hate. Where was the quick-rot Hillman Minx series 3? And the Marina wasn't that bad. I knew several people who had them in the 80s as dirt cheap, easy-fix basic motoring. Two were brush painted (loon pants purple and a dark green) and both ran and ran.....until the rot got 'em.

@jameskrell4392 Ай бұрын

The American accent says all you need to know about a film poporting to be about British cars. Unfortunately there are so many such posts out there. My sister had an allegro, it was a real crocodile. I had a Marina, it was just as bad.

@TheWacoKid1963 Ай бұрын

Man bearing? there's bugger all the matter with my man bearing, the other half has bared a few kids from it Re: Allegro square steering wheel, the Tesla Cyber Fuckedup has a square steering wheel

@vanceblosser2155 Ай бұрын

What is a man bearing? You said they failed on the Stag.

@EVISEH Ай бұрын

"Only 6 Marinas still plodding along British roads". That must be surprising to the several hundred Marina owners in Britain still plodding around the roads What other numbers and "facts" did you pluck out the air to support your rather ridiculous assertion. Clearly the eight cars you've listed are cars you personally dislike, but there's no evidence to support your contention those cars were universally and widely hated, indeed the sales figures for each car show that they were not. Were they so hated and despised as you'd have us believe, they wouldn't have sold in the numbers that they did.