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Old 7th August 2021, 15:24   #6
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Originally Posted by torque2me View Post
It's all a question of perspective! BL, and their engineers, produced a wide range of cars which seemed to fit the styling and incomes of the people at those times. The Marina 1.3TC was a good seller, the Metro sold very well etc., etc. We may be disdainful at times but the real problem was QUALITY and thus RELIABLITY (but they were not alone in that - think French).

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The ones built in Belguim (Seneffe) were no better, and in some aspects (paint) were worse!
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