Skoda Favorit 136

Something of a revolution arrived in 1989, with a Bertone styled FWD hatchback design showing Skodas intent to pitch the brand away from the bargain basement cars they had...

MK3 Ford Escort

Announced in the UK in time for the 1980 Motorshow, the FWD Escort was the companies most important release of the decade. A lot of the mechanical development had...

Audi 80

B11 1982-1986 Nissan Sunny

More powerful and bigger than its RWD predecessor, Nissan started to shift their cars to front-wheel drive, with the Sunny arriving in the UK in 1982.  Early models sported...

Small commercial vehicles from the early ’90s.

A series of car derived vans from the '90s, illustrating a declining number of vehicles on the market. The market was now more oriented towards larger van-type vehicles, rather...

Vauxhall Nova

Vauxhall finally enters the FWD supermini market in 1983, finally displacing the Chevette as their smallest car. The all-new conservative but neat GM design brought in three new engines...