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Newspaper clippings from the 70's


Marty

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Comedy thing is, nowadays most vehicles whose VIN plates begin with "S" are built by foreign manufacturers."I thought I was buying a Japanese car, but when I looked under the bonnet of my new Qashqai the code started SJ and it turns out the car was put together by sodding Geordies" :lol:The Ford Fiesta is a hilariously bad example in the article. I quote, from an old "worst cars" vox pop:The Ford Fiesta was truly a marriage of bad design and bad execution! First of all, the idea of having every country from East Sudan to Liechtenstein supply Ford with parts for this junker was ridiculous. There are more flags under a Fiesta's hood than out in front of a West Hollywood Youth Hostel!which sounds like your typical hacked-off patriotic Yank who, having shelled out for Uncle Henry's federal market sub-sub-compact baby, then discovered it had been knocked out of a West German factory :D

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Car: Trablant"THE TRABLANT! This quiet little marvel of Soviet Bloc automotive engineering was even more fabulous than the Yugo! This one never made it to U.S. shores, as far as I know, but the "Trabby" was a favorite amongst the proletariat." Nice work! :roll: I didn't know that about VIN numbers, because they usually have stuff like "Nissan Manufacturing of United Kingdom", etc. stamped on them.
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There's still much love for the Mk1 Fezza amongst some Yanks, due to it's light weight, manouverability and tunability. Quite surprising that they sold 86,000 in the first year there (1978), given they cost $1000 more than the base Fairmont (Ford's new "compact" released the same year, which was about the size of a Volvo 240). They ended up shifting a quarter-mill over the three model years the car was imported...

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