Autocar 100 best BRITISH cars of all time

The Evoque has just made it in at No 100! The next listed Land Rover is the original Land Rover at No 29 then the original Range Rover (the 3 door 1974 one) is No 4. And The Best British car of all time.............. the original Issigonis Leyland Mini. Interesting that the original Discovery hasn't made it into the listing. This week's Autocar is worth a read as it is a great celebration of the British Car industry. Evoque is beaten by the Nissan Juke........... at number 89............... most of the cars listed are not modern cars though.

That's a Nissan Joke, that it beat the Evoque by eleven places.
But I do like number 2...........The Maclaren F1

I was a bit surprised to see a Renault Megane and a Subaru Imprezza WRX in the list until I read the notes - both made in the UK at specialists - Ricardo makes the Megane RS for Renault and Prodrive makes the WRX Subarus.
Aslo a bit surprised that the truly awful Hillman Imp was so high up the list too and the MG Maestro 2.0l, yet the Lotus Sunbeam was lanquishing down near the Evoque, it was a cracker of a hot hatch back in the old days.

A lot of nostalgia in that list... I remember an Imp from my childhood, Rear engined, Rubber driveshafts revolutionary... for unreliability, aluminimum head for leaky head gaskets, slippy clutch... still it got us on holiday a few times loaded to the gunnels roof rack and all

The Joke is a very popular car and value for money against a lot of competition, maybe not so refined but value.

Discovery should be in the top ten! How on earth did the Nissan Puke even get in there? Most people would be put off by looking at them!

(07-05-2014 03:29pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  Aslo a bit surprised that the truly awful Hillman Imp was so high up the list too and the MG Maestro 2.0l,

We'll have no MG Maestro bashing lol. I love my MG Montego.......... These MMM cars are seriously starting to appreciate!!

I'm not bashing the MG Maestro Valeter, I owned 2 of the 2.0Efi versions and I reckon that they were very under-rated cars. I had one of them supercharged and that car didn't half frighten the hottest hatch of the time, the Astra GTE i - my next car after that was a Rover 820i Fastback that I also had supercharged and was also a GTE/GTi basher that looked just like a plain jane production car.................

(08-05-2014 09:17am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  I'm not bashing the MG Maestro Valeter, I owned 2 of the 2.0Efi versions and I reckon that they were very under-rated cars. I had one of them supercharged and that car didn't half frighten the hottest hatch of the time, the Astra GTE i - my next car after that was a Rover 820i Fastback that I also had supercharged and was also a GTE/GTi basher that looked just like a plain jane production car.................

Supercharged..... Would love to have seen them.

Did the Stag make it in?

Yes it's in there at No47.
Plenty of other Triumphs in there too
Dolomite Sprint = 93
TR 5 PI = 85 (Did you know it was the UK's first Fuel Injected mass produced sports car?)
Triumph 1300 = No 80
Triumph 2000 = No 61