My parents had 2 VT's, an Executive and an Acclaim. The Executive was one of the early ones and was a complete and total dog, was gutless, poor paint quality, looked like it was thrown together at 4pm on a Friday, interior rattled like there was no tomorrow etc. The Acclaim was one of the last VT series2, and was 10million times a better car.
socram,
Mar 10, 3:18am
No British Leyland Cars produced in the last ten years so hardly a valid set of comments.
Just for the record, I have never owned an unreliable car in my life and in 45 years, all my daily road cars have been BMC/BL/Rover/MG/Land Rover.
On the basis of cars my closest friends have owned in recent years, Honda CRVs (2), Ford Falcons (2) and Holden Commodore (1) have all proved less reliable than my Brits!
Worst paintwork has been daughter's Toyota; most rust, wife's Honda Civic S; most money spent on stuffed engine/mechanicals, son's Toyota Surf.
flockton55,
Mar 10, 3:19am
Early XJ-Ss had some real British Leyland disease. Some good some real bad. Much better after about 1982 when John Egan took over.My V12 has only let me down when the capacitors in the fuel injection computer died.Changed them, and it hasn't missed a beat since.
cuda.340,
Mar 10, 3:26am
all my cars have been good but my mate has this '02 Fiat Stilo pos that i've towed 3 times in the past 12 months & usually when it's raining. it's such a pos that the euro car yard he bought it from won't buy it back or accept it as a trade. i think they know something they're not telling him.
geedubu,
Mar 10, 3:29am
Agree tgray, I had an XJS V12, constantly unreliable.But I liked it, being reliable isn't everything.
bubbles244,
Mar 10, 3:32am
the moral of the story, never buy the first model of any production. the series II were great cars
johnf_456,
Mar 10, 3:33am
But the benefits of british is the constant under body protection from these god dam oil leaks.
dent,
Mar 10, 3:35am
isuzu wizard with the 4JX1 Engine YUK
ferita,
Mar 10, 3:36am
Fords, especially ones from the 90's
scoobeey,
Mar 10, 3:36am
Apart from pastic trim breaking,seats pulling through from floor pan,rear door stay breaking off at body,crap electrics,wheel cylinders shite from NEW,many more faults.great motors lol
directorylist,
Mar 10, 3:38am
Hell no, i had a Lada Samara back in the mid 90's that beast would not die.
I drove about 150,000km in the space of 2 1/2 years All the plastic bits snapped off, i dropped it into a 6' ditch got it towed out with a tractor and a rope around the front, popped the dent out of the door, she was good as new. I think i did the last 100,000km on the same oil. The thing was a monster, ugly as all hell but the motor and box was neigh on bulletproof.
dent,
Mar 10, 3:38am
And braking the timing chain slipper pads.
directorylist,
Mar 10, 3:40am
I have a set of whitworths ;)
johnf_456,
Mar 10, 3:40am
It is plenty of cars over ten years old here in nz that are British, might not be british leyland but still very british.
craig04,
Mar 10, 10:19am
2000 Mazda MPV
mk3zephyr,
Mar 10, 11:23am
My 1st 1/2" drive socket set that i bought 26 years ago has metric, imperial and Whitworth sockets in it, Old Sidchrome set, still going strong
intrade,
Mar 10, 1:02pm
funny enough is that untill late 70s any car was not terrible reliable at higher milage 100,000km was like 1 million on todays cars. mitsubishi and toyota where the first to crack it and make riliable cars lasting past the 200,000km mark however mitsubishi soon lost the plot and startedmaking rubish from 1984 onwards it started with the new colt model .the old one was tuff
sifty,
Mar 10, 1:39pm
Me too, but you need them with the old BSA's. Regards reliability, the only modern'ish car i've had let me down was a 94 Subaru, and that was only a position sensor (5 min job to replace). Have had 2 HQ's shear the fibre timing gears on me, and one Ford trashed it's torque converter but to be fair that was after a pretty imnpressive burnout.
texastwo,
Mar 10, 1:42pm
I notice the Cavalier only got one mention. Considering this is one of the most maligned cars on here I found that strange.Personally I thinkythey have an undeserved bad rep. Seen lots with 150+k on them that have been mostly very reliable. Still makes them a good buy for those prepared to ignore the myths.
intrade,
Mar 10, 2:04pm
mitsubishi fall apart inside and out .
trogedon,
Mar 10, 2:05pm
More words; read the op ??
robbo36,
Mar 10, 2:06pm
More commonly known in the day as."Land Crabs"
trogedon,
Mar 10, 2:12pm
Not the ones we have /had. I got our Libero at 58kms. It??
drog,
Mar 10, 2:13pm
aka Landcrab.
intrade,
Mar 10, 2:16pm
we forgt 1 car that surley would have been the ultimate in unreliable they are all gone now . and i never seen one for real. but they where made right here NZ made.enter make here (.)
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