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The Gay Look Minxes came in a variety of bodystyles, including a glamorous convertible plus the Californian hardtop as well as the more everyday saloon and estate. This final flowering of the old style model would soon give way to Hillman's considerably more modern 'Audax' Minx.
Made from 1955 to 1962, the MGA was MG's first new post-war sports car design and a looked far more modern than its TF predecessor. Over 100,000 were made, of which over 94% were exported.
@RSLozworth Executive I think. This was perhaps its most famous use.
The Mazda 929 (Luce in Japan) also came in saloon and estate car versions, and was the company's biggest model in many export markets at the time. It shared its body with the more expensive, rotary-powered RX-4.
The good-looking A40 was a rare example of BMC offering true choice to customers, with the car competing in the same class as the increasingly-antiquated Morris Minor, which used the same B-series engine. Ironically the decade-older Morris outsold and outlived its Austin sibling.
The Farina-styled Austin A40, although rear-wheel-drive, has a good claim to be one of the ancestors of the modern small hatchback in its Countryman version, with split tailgate and folding rear seat. This 1100 cc mkII was launched in late 1962. #carbrochure #Austin
When the Fiat Strada brochure came out the renamed model was described as 'the evolution of a new, and distinctive species - the car of the future'. Pictures showed the car in a vaguely other-wordly setting, with a family dressed to match the theme.
Confusingly, this generation also had a more conventional 323 3-door hatch, sometimes called the 323P. In this British brochure it had taken over from the 323C, which had not proved popular. 1.3LXi and 1.5GXi versions were available.
Once proudly independent, Riley had been fully subsumed into BMC by the mid-50s, but kept its 'For magnificent motoring' catchphrase. The body of the One-Point-Five (and its plainer single-carb twin, the Wolseley 1500) was originally penned as a possible Morris Minor successor.