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Post by Ravasher on Nov 11, 2018 18:56:43 GMT
Our Sky box is playing up today so been on YouTube for the last hour or so. Came across this motoring report quite interesting
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Post by davidwilson on Nov 12, 2018 12:54:01 GMT
I enjoyed watching that!
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Post by unclebob on Nov 12, 2018 15:10:29 GMT
Think the motoring press was very anti japanese/ European cars in the 70’s but it’s all about choice and British leyland was a poor and limited range .
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Post by firemac on Nov 12, 2018 17:02:49 GMT
Unfortunately, neither the British nor American manufacturers took the foreign competition ( esp the Japanese) seriously until it was way too late. Hence no indiginous UK car manufacturers anymore and the biggest selling cars in US are Japanese and German.
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Post by Ravasher on Nov 13, 2018 7:56:22 GMT
My dad has the same colour Datsun 120Y as in the YouTube photo.
Before this he had a 1600E. The heater in the 1600E barely used to warm up but the Datsun it was like an oven in comparison
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Post by unclebob on Nov 13, 2018 16:10:43 GMT
My late father only bought British until I showed him a Nissan sunny top spec and he was smitten 😎
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Post by davidwilson on Nov 13, 2018 16:30:15 GMT
My late father only bought British until I showed him a Nissan sunny top spec and he was smitten 😎 Yes my Dad was the same until he noticed other people where he worked were buying Datsuns and they were very reliable! I thought I had posted earlier but can't see it, I also had a Datsun 120Y which looked, to me, very smart in white and I really enjoyed driving it for a number of years. |
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Post by phaeton on Nov 15, 2018 13:47:24 GMT
Honda built their success in the motorcycle industry based on a 4 cylinder engine designed by a British engineer who couldn't get BSA/Triumph/Norton to even look at it.
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