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Originally Posted by Bossxr8
And because they simply fell apart due to the awful build quality of british leyland products.
And there are no rules against marketing against your opposition.
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Certainly there were some build problems, but not because of BRITISH Leyland, this was a wholly Australian developed and built car by Leyland Australia.
I think you should also kep in mind that this was the first model for them, imagine if the HQ or XA was the first ventures for Holden or Ford, build quality would be much the same.
If they had ever got to a series 2, it would have changed many things.
From my experience most of the knockers had never even sat in one, let alone drive or own one.
There were many reasons why the project failed, strikes that held up parts from suppliers to start with meant they couldn't fulfil a great number of orders.
There was a lot of negativity in the press, but ultimately it was Lord somebody or other that bankrupted the parent company and caused a company wide collapse.
In hindsight there never was room for 4 players in the Ozie market, and especially one the government took away the market protection, there wasn't even room for 3 really.
And without the government protection, what have we got now?
Sweet stuff all.
Could you imagine the US government not buying US cars? or the Germans, Japanese? Swedes etc? A totally ludicrous situation we now have where we make next to nothing in Australia these days - and we wonder why we have high unemployment??
OK, sorry, rant over now...