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and it is british. anecdotally in terms of longevity and development i have seen they do the best job.
by ilrwbwrkhv 6y ago
and it is british. anecdotally in terms of longevity and development i have seen they do the best job.
- qz2 6y agoAs a British person we tend to tell everyone we do that and people believe it. However it’s not necessarily true. We produced a ridiculously large amount of crap to the point we nearly killed our manufacturing industry. If there’s anything to aspire to its Hewlett Packard’s test and measurement and computing offerings between 1960 and 1990.
- forty 6y agoI cannot resist the urge of sharing this wonderful sequence (also made in UK :) ): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ
- acomjean 6y agoMy mom had an MGB in the late 60/early 70s. While she loved that car she didn’t love it’s reliability. Those Brompton folding bikes are pretty well made, though pricey even with the deflated pound.
- Angostura 6y agoI've still got a 1971 MGB. Apart from problems with the electrics - batteries go flat in winter, it's pretty easy to fix most things by hitting it with a hammer.
- werber 6y agoI've been considering buying one. How much cost do you think you spend per year on matinence?
- 95014_refugee 6y agoI have a family member that had a long flirtation with MGBs and MGCs. The short answer is "as much as you're able to".
- werber 6y agough, I want to pull the trigger so bad, but I don't drive at all now, but a fun manual would make going to trader joes regularly easy
- nextos 6y agoPerhaps that was the case with e.g. vintage sports cars from the 50s and 60s. But I don't think the British manufacturing industry has been doing well ever since. I would love to be wrong, though.
- markb139 6y agoAccording the uk official national statistics manufacturing product sales for 2019 was £396 billions.
- pmontra 6y agoStats for all the EU at https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/prodcom/data/excel-files-nace-rev.2 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/prodcom/data/excel-files-n... years 1995 to 2019.
- nextos 6y agoI meant in terms of quality.
- yodelshady 6y agoEver watched formula 1? I'll bet you're thinking of British Leyland, which behaved a bit like Boeing currently does. But much, much worse, and at every level. British companies that are aware they can fail produce quality just fine. It's a fairly simple tale.
- nix23 6y agoSometimes it still is, Rolls-Royce (Engines and Turbines) are still the Topline.
- moonbug 6y agoIf you believe that, I've got a vintage Allegro to sell you.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoMy dad had one of those, it had so many faults they gave him a new one after a year. I wrote off the new one a few days later.
- moonbug 6y agoYou got lucky.
- bitbckt 6y agoI can’t stop laughing at this. No /s?
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- __m 6y agoBritish jokes have the highest quality
- scruffyherder 6y agoMaybe it’ll be adopted better than the Sinclair QL, you know that cheap British 16bit micro of the future... /s