10 YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT… THE MORRIS MINOR
As soon as a motor manufacturer launches a new model, the collective thoughts of its staff invariably turn towards a successor because it takes several years to go from the first design sketches to the finished article. That generally means that a production run of eight years is pretty good going for a model, even though it must be admitted that most ‘new’ designs usually carry over a significant proportion of parts from the outgoing one.
Sometimes though, a lack of cash or simple industrial or political inertia means that a model stays in production long past its sell-by date. I am no stranger to this phenomenon because I have a fondness for cars from behind the former Iron Curtain, not because of any particular political views but because I like the unusual and the quirky. What many people don’t realise is that cars like the Trabant, the rear-engined Skodas and even the Lada were thoroughly modern designs when first launched, but they failed to evolve and were hopelessly outdated by the end of production.
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