10 Worst British Family Cars of the 1980s — Full Shame List

10 Worst British Family Cars of the 1980s — Full Shame List Britain in the nineteen eighties promised its families better cars. After a decade of strikes, rust, and unreliable electrics, the industry swore it had learned. These are the 10 worst British family cars of the 1980s and number two fell apart on a road test before the journalist had finished writing his notes. The eighties were supposed to be different. Privatisation, new management, Japanese production techniques imported to British factories and yet the Austin Maestro launched with a talking dashboard that owners immediately requested be silenced. The Austin Montego arrived with panel gaps its own quality control teams had flagged before the first car left Longbridge. The Metro was launched by Margaret Thatcher as Britain's answer to the European supermini and within three years its body panels were showing rust at a rate that independent consumer surveys placed among the worst in its class. And the Triumph Acclaim the last Triumph ever built was a rebadged Honda Ballade assembled in Britain, a car that finally worked properly because a Japanese company had designed it. The nineteen eighties did not fix British family cars. It just made their failures more expensive. The Talbot Horizon was a genuinely capable car trapped inside a brand that Peugeot was actively dismantling parts availability declined faster than the car itself. The Ford Escort Mark Three 1.1 had forty-five brake horsepower and a claimed top speed of eighty-three miles per hour that required conditions no British road in the nineteen eighties reliably provided. The Vauxhall Astra Mark One was Germany's Opel Kadett assembled in Britain and the British-assembled examples consistently scored lower on quality surveys than the German-built versions sold on the continent. And the Vauxhall Cavalier Mark Two 1.3 was purchased in enormous numbers by British company car fleets who needed something that looked like a company car without costing like one. The Kickstart Files tells the real story of Britain across the decades classic British family cars, forgotten British history, and the moments that shaped the country from the 1950s through to the 1980s. Every video is built around the history and the stories most channels never find. New videos every week. Subscribe to The Kickstart Files today. 🔔 Subscribe:    / @thekickstartfiles   ‎‎#BritishPoliceCars #UKPolice #FordSierraCosworth #JaguarMark2 #ClassicCars #British