British Cars

>>13966623
Wait, Daf is American? Also, Aston Martin are owned by a fairly wide selection of different investment groups. Ceo is a Brit though, if anyone cares.

In any case, most of these are still designed, engineered and built in the UK, just for various international owners.

>>13966623
according to what I've learned from top gear, unions happened

>>13966623
The 70's happened. Watch Clarkson's Car Years episode on the british motor industry, it's on youtube.

>>13966633
>Wait, Daf is American?

Daf and Leyland split in 1993, now they both have the same American parent company (Paccar).

>>13966656
Well, didn't know they had American owners, then. Just knew that Leyland makes Daf-branded vehicles.

>>13966639
It's not quite as simple as that. Unions were a symptom of an overall industrial decline that Britain didn't really recover from until the 80s, though they were a symptom that exacerbated the overall problem. The origins of it all stretch all the way back to the economic aftermath of WW2.

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Morgan is still british and that's all that matters.

>>13966756
WOODEN CAR REVOLUTION WHEN?

Complacency and 70s happened.

Morgan, Caterham and TVR are the coolest British brands anyway.

The TVR name is owned by Russians now.

>>13966848
>On 6 June 2013, it was reported that Nikolay Smolensky had sold his entire ownership of TVR to TVR Automotive Ltd, a UK company led by Les Edgar.

>>13966623
Aston Martin is Italian now? Did I miss something?

>>13966623
When did gready wops get thier hands on Aston Lagonda?

>>13966876
Aston Martin is pretty multinational.

Some Italian company bought 40% of it back in 2012, but it looks like things have shifted around even more.

From Wiki:
>Prestige Motor Holdings)(39%) ["American" company run by some Spanish guy]
>Asmar (19%)
>Primewagon (Jersey) Ltd (19%)
>Adeem Investments (11%)
>Daimler (5%)
>DAR Capital (5%)
>Sthewaz Automotive (2%)
>Other Minor Shareholders (10%)

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>>13966623
British leyland.

>>13966623
Don't forget that Rover was owned by BMW too. Before that became kill.

Fugly pos cars

>>13966641
TL;DR: Thatcher done fucked it up, stupid old cunt.

>>13968259
They weren't the prettiest, but there wasn't anything inherently wrong with them.

Head gasket meme aside, the engines were pretty good.