You are, as a Curbivore, familiar with the BMC ADO16 (Austin America in North America, or Austin, Morris, Riley, Wolseley and MG 1100 and 1300 back home). Benoit clearly is, […]
(first posted 9/25/2015) From the late sixties on, BL and Austin-Rover consistently struggled to find any meaningful and lasting success. To be fair to them, they did try. How about […]
(first posted 9/12/2015) One of the hangovers BL had from its heritage of being a combination of numerous brands was an obligation (as the company seemed to see it anyway) […]
Many brands have complex and surprising histories, which may or may not be reflected in their later or current images and reputations. Companies like Wolseley that evolved from sheep shearing, […]
CC has looked at the Vauxhall Victor before, more than once as befits such a storied name and one with a key cameo role in the British motor industry’s history. […]
Ray was a sales representative (a rep in common parlance) in the 1970s and 1980s. His employer issued him a car to drive on business and for his personal use. […]
Red. Even the word says something. Short. Clear. It says something important quickly, somehow. It seems to link with the translations – rot, rouge, rosso, rojo, rood, rød. Red the […]
The name Haynes, of John Haynes CBE, Haynes manuals and Haynes publishing probably needs little introduction to a CC audience. The manuals have sold over 200 million copies; the publicly […]
(first posted 8/6/2015) This may seem, to those not fortunate enough to live in Great Britain, a most unusual solution to perhaps the most extreme problem a country could have: […]
The sight of this Citroen CX Safari on the Cohort, posted by Nathan Williams, reminds me of an arguably irrefutable fact. That for the European buyer from the late 1970s […]
The story of the British motor industry from the early 1960s can be told through a relatively small number of cars: The ingenuity of the Mini, the spot-on Morris/Austin 1100, […]
(first posted 7/9/2015) Last September, CC looked at the Morris Marina, and I concluded that it was too little, too late. If BL didn’t know it was inadequate and always […]