3 Cars that define British motoring.

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Deadstar

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If you were to define British motoring by selecting three cars, each which had to be good enough for modern day motoring, which cars would you pick ?
 
That's not fair, Deadstar! Your criteria rules out the Vintage Bentleys!

Seriously, though. The Mini has to be one of them. Then a Jag, not sure which one - perhaps an S3 XJ6? After that a small Ford, choose from Anglia, Mk1 Escort or perhaps Mk1 or 2 Cortina.

Chris
 
Are we talking up until a certain year of manufacture?

Range Rover, Aston Martin DB6, Bentley Mulsanne.

Ron.
 
From any era, just so long as you could use it every day - oh I forgot to say - why would you pick the car ?
 
Morris 1000,cheap, practical, reliable.
Jag XJ6 Series 1& 2, affordable luxury.
Range Rover, robust workhorse.
 
I would have 3 Aston Martin V8 Vantages. or maybe just 1 an A Range Rover series 1 and a P3 Rover

RR cause I miss mine and it was the best all rounder,
P3 for local running about
AM v8 because it is my dream car and if I have the spare cash I would be swapping all my Rovers for one....
 
Too many choices so will give it some thought and come back later.
Strange how P6 hasn't been mentioned yet :eek:
 
Rolls Royce Silver Shadow 1 = Complete luxury and gloriously imposing to look at...
Jensen Interceptor FF S1 = A luxurious, and purposely beautiful, Grand Tourer that really is a technical Tour de Force...
Rover P6B S = Brutish, beautifully made & quintessentially British (I suppose I'm a tad biassed too!)...

I'd be exceptionally happy to have these parked on the gravel driveway of my country retreat...!!!
 
Citroen DS because they were so advanced when introduced in 1955 and can still hold their own
I'll think about 2 more
 
wow this has given me some food for thought, I still have not posted my 3. One of my 3 was going to be the mini - but for practical everyday motoring and carrying passengers, I'm thinking the Morris might be a better bet. Keep the cars coming.
 
The Morris Minor cannot be out of this list.

I would go for:

1 Morris Minor

2 Jaguar MKII/Daimler 250

3 Rover P6

4 I don't want to forget the Austin 1100 and relatives.



Dave, why did you mention the Goddess? She's a French car!!

Well, we could say that the DS is such a wonderful car that it exceeds boundaries, but anyway it's definitely not British!


Regs
 
Shazzbat said:
4 I don't want to forget the Austin 1100 and relatives.


Regs
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Sorry I am still trying to forget those cars just like 70's haircuts and bell bottomed jeans.

Graeme
 
First one has to be the P6B - use it every day. fix it yourself, beautiful lines, comfortable, luxury - just love it.

VX4/90 FD - just love the grill and that coke bottle stance

S Type jag - original one
 
Shazzbat, the DS was British - or at least for some of its life. Citroen had a factory next to the Railway station in Slough and buit first Traction Avante's and then DS's up to the late 60's. The Slough DS's were different to French ones as well - Lucas lights for one.

Chris
 
No, I do not agree Chris. Spain also produces hundreds of thousands of Citroëns every year since the Fifties and I do not dare to say that Xsaras, Picassos or Berlingos produced at Vigo plant are Spanish. Design and development are French (as well as the investment) so the cars are French, no matter where they are produced.

I work for a Japanese manufacturer here in my city. Any of the workers here, neither blue nor white collars, think that our vans and trucks are Spanish, although our plant remains in the same plot since 1957. Japanese made in Spain, we could say.

Spain manufactured thousands of Austin 1100, MG 1300, Austin Victoria, Minis and some other BL models at the plant of Landaben, Navarra, back in the Sixties and Seventies, also with some differences compared to those made in Britain. Would you say then that these cars were Spanish?

Well, maybe it is just a matter of culture difference, but for me (even being a car's professional) the place where the car is manufactured is not important. Important is the design, the development and, top of all, who puts the money on the table.



Regs
 
chrisyork said:
Shazzbat, the DS was British - or at least for some of its life. Citroen had a factory next to the Railway station in Slough and buit first Traction Avante's and then DS's up to the late 60's. The Slough DS's were different to French ones as well - Lucas lights for one.

Chris
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Hmmm Rover P6's must be an NZ car then :LOL:

Graeme
 
Dave, why did you mention the Goddess? She's a French car!!

Well, we could say that the DS is such a wonderful car that it exceeds boundaries, but anyway it's definitely not British!
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Either because I didn't read the title correctly OR ( luckily for me ) they built DS's in Slough
 
Saw this car the other day, so there is hope that I still may one day own one of the UK's greatest ever cars
http://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=ckq878

only 2000 odd miles on the clock, not a mark not a scratch a total rebuild to new, not even so much as a mark or scratch or blemish on any of the glass on the car better than showroom condition and it would look soooo good sitting next to my P6B in the garage.....wish I had a camera with me at the time.

Graeme
 
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