It's all about reputation

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Bad reputations. As classic car owners we all hear about them regularly. Some more than others, and we wonder which nation manufactured the most notoriously bad cars? The Italians? Or perhaps the British, or still the French? And how about Germans with their reputation of solid and thorough builds then? What was really true about that? Or the Americans with their love for anything excessive and model years changing faster than the seasons?

Alfas had the reputation ‘to already rust in the brochure’, and we’ve heard people saying about specific Fiats ‘that you could hear them rust’. But there were also the French famously mixing unreliability with delicacy. The Japanese, the East-Europeans, anyone? And, last but surely not least the British cars, with all those parts by Lucas ‘King of Darkness’. So… What’s going on here, in Longbridge, with a batch of early Minis running along the assembly line in ‘59? We leave the tongue-in-cheek comments to you, as you may caption this fabulous PR (?) shot.
 

Picture by courtesy Britishcarmuseum.co.nz

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