The Good Old Days...

[treehugger]

Story goes that when George Harriman was Chairman of BMC he ordered the BMC numberplate to be removed from his company VdP as he apparently kept getting harangued by angry customers about the shit they had bought.....

Who was the guy on AS that bought a VDP and was going to bastardise it? Can't recall.

[mercrocker]

Probably that colc cunt.

[Warren t claim]

Which? really catered for a market who's only interests were reliability and ease of use. I had a mate in the early 80s who's mum was an avid Which? subscriber and needless to say she drove a 1981 Datsun Sunny estate.

Which? road tests listed performance as sluggish, average or rapid.

My childhood was blighted by Esther Rancid quoting the editor, a Mr David Tench, at every opportunity on That's Life.

[Eddie Honda]

My childhood was blighted by Esther Rancid quoting the editor, a Mr David Tench, at every opportunity on That's Life.

My childhood was blighted by Esther Rancid mentioning the Reliant Robin bracket problem, at every opportunity on That's Life.

#notquiteasoldaswarren

[Hooli]

My childhood was blighted by Esther Rancid quoting the editor, a Mr David Tench, at every opportunity on That's Life.

My childhood was blighted by Esther Rancid mentioning the Reliant Robin bracket problem, at every opportunity on That's Life.

#notquiteasoldaswarren

My childhood was blighted by having to ignore Esther Rancid while waiting for Doc's silly song.

[paulplom]

Things had improved by the mid eighties. My first car on finance was an F reg metro in 1991. It was three years old before the rust started.

[mercrocker]

Three years before you saw it.....It started at Longbridge with a damp piece of foam.

[SiC]

My childhood was blighted by Esther Rancid quoting the editor, a Mr David Tench, at every opportunity on That's Life.

My childhood was blighted by Esther Rancid mentioning the Reliant Robin bracket problem, at every opportunity on That's Life.

#notquiteasoldaswarren

That's life?

#notQuiteAsOldAsEddie

(Actually a lie, I have vague recollections of That's Life! But I was 8 when it was culled. )

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's surprising that any survived when they were that shit.

[AutoshiteBoy]

Its fucking insulting that Europe built such shit cars. Great reporting by Which? there.