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Definitely the British automotive industry is probably one of the worst in the world whilst there are a few independent manufactures that are British owned most of the Big ones (E.G Mini or MG) are owned Under foreign ownership It’s simply because of British Leyland and the horrible government can be said for any industry even railways for example the exact same thing as happened With many industries in the UK and so are lots of car factories in the UK nowhere near as much If any “British” Car manufacturers exist anymore

We dont make anything. Because the company's first responsibility is to make the shareholder money, so it has to go overseas for cheaper inputs.

American prefer american cars, Italian prefer italian cars, German prefer german cars, French prefer french cars; Swedish prefer buy swedish cars, Spanish prefer spanish cars, Japenese prefer Japenese cars. British prefer not buy british cars.

Really interesting and well-presented video!

I love TVR's!! Im just paranoid about their reliability

: Australian car industry enters the room.

Sorry 807 but that was in poor taste, on a good day. Not good

I drove a british car for ten years, because i was, and i still am a great fan of the people in the uk. That car costed me nerves until i finally had to sell it, because i had to commute 400 km the last years of my career. Since i drive my x1 BMW, i never had to look for new oil spots under my car. Sorry, brits, i love you, but concentrate on things, you are good in, like stand up comedy!😂🇩🇪🇬🇧🇩🇪🇬🇧🇩🇪🇬🇧❤

As a teen in the UK I always craved a TVR finally owned a S2 in Toronto back in the mid 90 ‘s , First time I took it for a serious drive in the country managed to achieve a 360 spin which was a major lesson in driving . Was constantly being yelled at while driving around Toronto “ what are you driving “ loved the car easy to maintain biggest issue was having to be so careful when parking as the front end was always subject to possible “ taps” on the concrete parking spacers . Never drove it October to March so I doubt if I put on 5,000 k in the 5 year ownership which was kinda silly but fulfilled a childhood dream .

Part 2?

I restored an MGB for my partner. It was fun. Driving it, not so much. Actually it was a terrible car.

Thank you and loved the S which I knew nothing about before.

BMC was a shitshow and dragged the rest down along with it, in a very protracted tale costing billions.

The video maker clearly has to educate themselves on the unions guilt in the deaths of U.K. car manufacturing, but nice try blaming Maggie for burying the corpse the unions and management killed.

When i was young in the 70s there were many British vehicles in Kenya Leyland, Albion, Bedford, Triumph, Morris even Ford was from UK. 80s ERF was a very good Bus.

Too bad. America really loves mid-engine sports cars!

Another problem with British cars has been their questionable reliability.

guidata una v8s...bellissima

Leonard Lord brought the car industry together, Tony Benn nationalised the car industry, Derek Robinson made the workers go on strike and Michael Edwardes helped Maggie Thatcher sell the car industry off.

I remember back in 1967, I was into club rallying with a SAAB 96. My friend whose parents owned the local garage had just bought and prepared a Mini Cooper S. On his first rally, the three spot welds on the bracket that secured the front suspension stabiliser arm let go leading to the collapse of the n/s front suspension and c/v drive shaft. A nut and bolt through the jigging hole would have resolved the problem, but a 2p bolt was just too much for British Leyland. Without quality control, all you do is is produce junk. So hardly shedding tears that the British motor industry went the way of the dodo. Not that SAAB was exactly defect free, but at least they went broke. OK, so rally driving a standard production car was hardly conductive to reliability, but I never bought another new car. Jack, the Japan Alps Brit

yes Britain had even lovely aircraft, but in the 1970s UK joined today's EU and then politicians decided to take out English companies and produce it elsewhere, thank you EU for effing up England and other countries, effing 2nd class dumb politicians. a German politician took out a very well known car factory in the early days Wartburg, 3 years after the owner died and left him with nothing.

The management didnt or couldnt manage. They blamed the workforce for everything and that just wasnt true. Then they privatised everything that the public owned. What a mess.

H15 VBS which is shown in the film, was featured at Motorfair 1991. Driven by Michelle Newman of Top Gear. H15 VBS was also featured in various publicity shots, also featured in the September 1991 edition of Autocar and Motor, Performance Car, Fast Lane magazines. December 1991 TVR Engineering decided to sell the car. The registration number was changed to H197DFR. In 2000 I bought the car. I still have the car which has been restored. Some history of a V8s. A history file as long as my arm!!

I had an S3C for 4-5 years. Fabulous fun, reliable and I enjoyed tinkering with it. I still have Steve Heath’s book which is brilliant. Always sounded fabulous but its problem was that it was not directionally stable. To keep it straight required constant small corrections and I felt it could bite in the wet. The E34 525i I got afterwards was probably a faster car point to point as it was so stable and accessible with good grip levels and predictable handling.

There is one reason why the British motoring industry is the cars were absolute crap and they sre still crap and of course the Japanese cars and the Japanese companies are still building cars and one if them is the best and largest motor manufacturers in the world famous for there reliability and build quality is the best and that is Toyota

Nicely shot... My Renault 17 you featured is actually a USA spec Gordini, not a TL, but nice to see it in there 🙂

I just bought a Chimaera but love those S models.

nice to see my Trabi on here. at 1:36 i drove down the day before from south humberside. Thought it wouldn't make it and back but it did. haha.

Has to be the subaru's to be honest, mine was parked next to the 99 rb5 you showed, mine is a 1994 acropolis special addition no 6/100 and not many left these days

0:37 The next Jeremy Clarkson right here! Amazing video mate! My favourite is probably Martin from TGT

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My Mk1 focus RS 😁

Waheyyy my 205!

My Lotus Mark 6 is a very early 1953/4 car with Ford Consul engine and very rare rear enveloppantes !

I know that TVR is a monolith of reliability, but I still want one, unfortunately we never got these in the U.S. Early Grifiiths' are my soft spot for TVR, would love to get my hands on one and put a more reliable but comparable engine in it, I would be the idiot to try to daily drive it at that point.

When it comes to British sports cars, people go for Jaguar, Lotus, etc. But for me, I think TVR is where it's really at.

Great vid! If I could have a TVR, it would be an 'S'.

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I don't think BL was what went wrong, BL was the culmination of what had gone wrong in the post-war era; the first step in a sequence of attempts to rescue BMC and the unfortunate companies that got drawn into mission highly improbable. Lack of cash hampered everything, as I think you rightly say, and they still didn't sort out the industrial relations. Many models were nevertheless better than is often depicted (the Allegro was a decent car in the end) but suffered because of lack of development before launch and because the workforce either wouldn't or weren't made to build them properly. I think your point about the Vanden Plas Allegro is a bit silly; it was a low volume version with a high price tag - what did it matter that it had a bit of running in first? At least the owners had a car that worked!!

Great video and I look forward to seeing the follow up

Well done that is a very impressive and informative video and great ton see a young person inspired by the classic TVR's

I have a 1990 Ash Green S2 2.9I and live in Spain, so with all this sunshine ☀ ☀ the British MSM are talking about (Propaganda) is certainly getting used to her full potential lol 😂 😂 I attend lots of car events and being so rare over here, there is always a conversation to be had..... 😎👍😎

See you for Part 2 soon…

Nice video. Just a small correction though, the car did not come with a driver figure. It had the golden jack wheels, opening doors and bonnet and sliding seats. There were also two versions of box for the 341 model, the one you have pictured and a similar one but with a kneeling mechanic with a wheel in the lower right hand corner .

British Leyland was a failed attempt at saving British auto manufacturers. British automakers were already destroying themselves before BL.

Horay, another DoCARmentary!

Splendid video sir, however, I believe that the delightful TR7 was the best possible outcome of this dark situation. It’s stylish looks and interior make it very appealing. Regardless of this, neither would stand up well against the brilliant cars being made in the land of the rising sun during this time.

The Brits were so full of hubris after winning the war that they thought they knew better than everybody else and arrogance led to their automotive industry's downfall.