MartinW
17-07-2008, 11:09 AM
As usual! I wonder how the questions were loaded? Which of the following cars would you least be seen in? Now, of the 4000 (wow, huge survey by some internet based motoring mouthpiece of which I have never heard) I wonder how many respondents were actually alive when the Allegro was current or even remember it.
One example of its poor construction was that it was more aerodynamic when travelling backwards than when it was being driven forwards.
That was the best example they could come up with? A fallacy anyway, as many cars are more aerodynamic in reverse than forwards, it's the nature of the teardrop shape of small hatchbacks. I am not saying the car was great. The fact that its predecesor outsold it over the same time period, and that the South Africans came up with a better looking car IMHO for the 70s at a fraction of the invesment, and it's lack of proper rear hatch are all negatives, but I guess the stigma of poor build quality has blighted it since. It wasn't a bad looking car, no more so than any of its contemporaries of that era.
And as fot the rest, (all British, strangely, where were the Ladas etc):
The rest of the top 10 worst cars were: Talbot Sunbeam with 11.4 per cent, Austin Princess with 10.7 per cent, Hillman Imp with 10.6 per cent, Rover 200 with 5.7 per cent, Triumph Acclaim with 4.4 per cent, Rover 800 with 3.8 per cent, Morris 1800 with 2.6 per cent and the Triumph TR7 with two per cent.
Which of course reminds me, I see Richard Hammond is promoting British beef, it would seem that thanks to his ilk that have made a living out of satirising the British motor industry, his current British Beef advert leaves just the merest hint of irony, and frankly, makes a mockery of his patriotism towards the meat industry - presumably he's being paid for this advert!
Right, got that off my chest, back to work!
One example of its poor construction was that it was more aerodynamic when travelling backwards than when it was being driven forwards.
That was the best example they could come up with? A fallacy anyway, as many cars are more aerodynamic in reverse than forwards, it's the nature of the teardrop shape of small hatchbacks. I am not saying the car was great. The fact that its predecesor outsold it over the same time period, and that the South Africans came up with a better looking car IMHO for the 70s at a fraction of the invesment, and it's lack of proper rear hatch are all negatives, but I guess the stigma of poor build quality has blighted it since. It wasn't a bad looking car, no more so than any of its contemporaries of that era.
And as fot the rest, (all British, strangely, where were the Ladas etc):
The rest of the top 10 worst cars were: Talbot Sunbeam with 11.4 per cent, Austin Princess with 10.7 per cent, Hillman Imp with 10.6 per cent, Rover 200 with 5.7 per cent, Triumph Acclaim with 4.4 per cent, Rover 800 with 3.8 per cent, Morris 1800 with 2.6 per cent and the Triumph TR7 with two per cent.
Which of course reminds me, I see Richard Hammond is promoting British beef, it would seem that thanks to his ilk that have made a living out of satirising the British motor industry, his current British Beef advert leaves just the merest hint of irony, and frankly, makes a mockery of his patriotism towards the meat industry - presumably he's being paid for this advert!
Right, got that off my chest, back to work!