Asides from BL, Rootes were best known for their badge engineering. Another brand from Coventry, with connections with the bicycle industry, the Singer brand became successful very quickly but the brand’s heyday was mainly during the pre-war era. Taken over by Rootes in 1956, they simply became plusher versions of Hillmans. The first of four […]
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The first-ever Japanese car to be price-listed in the UK was a Daihatsu, having beaten Toyota to these shores by a year. This car was imported as press demonstrator in the autumn of 1964 and is a rather conventional machine with a separate chassis and torsion bar front suspension. It certainly didn’t offer any clues
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The Lancia Beta was a significant car brand, as it was the first Fiat influenced Lancia and their first all-new design car of the ‘70s. It was to provide a basic platform for four basic designs to replace the Fulvia, which was still flourishing as the companies works rally car. It was to accommodate 8
