The LOST Morris Marina II Prototypes! - The Controversial Successor Uncovered

In this video we cover one of the most debated topics regarding the british car industry and its decline the Morris Marina's lost prototypes it's second generation models and how they followed a car which some have called one of the worst cars ever made and declared one of the biggest British Leyland disasters and has been extensively made fun of by Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.

We explore the Marina II ADO77 and ADO73 it's facelift and uncover an incredible timeline of the lost cars.

The Morris Marina though isn't a bad car through Motorsport, sales success it proved itself against all odds to be a mainstay of British cars, we cover long forgotten stories from Cowley and analyse the anatomy of what some have called a failure. Morris' last car.

Just a note; not all was bad with British leyland and the British car industry isn’t dead it is very much alive. Regarding MG Rover and the many other eras I covered as much as I could in the small recap but longer videos will be produced covering these eras.

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Credits:

AROnline - BL History, Morris Marina and ADO77, sales figures
British Motor Vehicles - Marina Information
Morris Marina Club - Marina Information
BMIHT - archival photos and videos

If you'd like to read more my sources are linked below

AROnline Marina Sales - https://www.aronline.co.uk/opinion/essay-morris-marina-well-sell/
AROnline - https://www.aronline.co.uk/history/british-leyland-grand-illusion-part-one-export-die/
British Motor Vehicles - https://www.britishmotorvehicles.com/blogs/unraveling-the-myth-was-the-morris-marina-really-the-worst-car-ever-built
AROnline ADO28 - https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/morris/marina/ado28-development-story/
Morris Marina Club - https://morrismarina.org.uk/

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