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[Sir Tigger KC]

Maybe the government should step in,
get a British car company to build a "peoples car" 

I believe that there will be a car factory going cheap in Swindon soon! 

They'd better get in quick before it meets the same fate as Longbridge and becomes a housing estate! 

[Nick W]

Morris Minor, now there's a car for the people.😀

With its predecessor the Austin 7, succeeded by  the Austin 1100 and then the Rover 200/25

[dave the builder]

we have 3 Vauxhall 4 pot tractor juice cars in the fleet now and I quite like them  they seem to accelerate ok in traffic 
(obviously I don't have to drive them much , )

Maybe the government should step in,
get a British car company to build a "peoples car" 
say a 4 door saloon,RWD obviously , 4,898mm long should do 
choice of engines ,a 4 banger dirty tractor juice lump, a V6 engine with free unlimited petrol or V8 with petrol subsidy of 90%
and a choice of automatic transmission (for the old ,lazy ,infirm  ) and one with a full set of pedals 
most of the design ,moulds/tooling etc already exist,and could be purchased quite cheap as OPEL are not using it 
if they hurry and sort if BEFORE Brexit shuts down all trade with the Euromob 
all sounds reasonable to me 

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Morris Minor, now there's are car for the people.😀

1139 mm too short and I doubt it would fair well with my choice of engines 

[Sir Tigger KC]

90 and 110 inches are good sizes for Brexit British cars! 

[2boxerdogs]

we have 3 Vauxhall 4 pot tractor juice cars in the fleet now and I quite like them  they seem to accelerate ok in traffic 
(obviously I don't have to drive them much , )

Maybe the government should step in,
get a British car company to build a "peoples car" 
say a 4 door saloon,RWD obviously , 4,898mm long should do 
choice of engines ,a 4 banger dirty tractor juice lump, a V6 engine with free unlimited petrol or V8 with petrol subsidy of 90%
and a choice of automatic transmission (for the old ,lazy ,infirm  ) and one with a full set of pedals 
most of the design ,moulds/tooling etc already exist,and could be purchased quite cheap as OPEL are not using it 
if they hurry and sort if BEFORE Brexit shuts down all trade with the Euromob 
all sounds reasonable to me 

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Morris Minor, now there's are car for the people.😀

1139 mm too short and I doubt it would fair well with my choice of engines 

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Have seen one with a V8 lump had huge rear wheels to cope with the power.

[dave the builder]

Have seen one with a V8 lump had huge rear wheels to cope with the power.

bet it drove fine in a straight line , up to 30 MPH 

90 and 110 inches are good sizes for Brexit British cars! 

I had to drive a Defender years ago ,towing breakdowns with a bar
utilitarian ,I probably could get my tools in it though 
they stopped making real land rovers though IIRC

[Nick W]

Have seen one with a V8 lump had huge rear wheels to cope with the power.

bet it drove fine in a straight line , up to 30 MPH 

The one a friend built used Jag uprights and diff with everything else scratch built. Wide steel wheels under an unmolested body painted a stock colour, it looked innocent. Large roundabouts at 100mph? No problem, the car was far more capable than me. Allegedly