Hi John.
How funny life is with cars. I've had a few British cars and a lot of foreign ones. In shear numbers of the foreign one's in order are these.
Skoda, Citroen, BMW, Audi, Fiat, DAF, Lada, Nissan.
Of the British ones in order it's, Rover/MG, Ford, Reliant, Austin, Commer Imp van.
Now I was slated so many times for the Skodas but never had one single breakdown in them, the DAF, Audi and Fiats also were trouble free, the BMW, Lada and the Nissan a primera being less than good, the Nissan being the worst car I've owned.
Of the British ones, the Ford's were well below average, worn engines at low mileage, rust and many other issues, far worse than any of my many Skodas were. The mini and a short time with an 1100 were brilliant years ahead of Escorts and MK 1 Fiestas. Although the Imp was a wonderful car, nippy, good handler and great on fuel the cooling system was a joke. If they had taken the radiator out of where it was and put it where Skoda had theirs in the MB & S series it would never have got all the road dirt reducing airflow, one overheat on the Imp and it was curtains for the head and often for the block.
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Cheers from Trevor
MM0KJJ
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