It’s been 40 years since the Austin Allegro was launched and it has finally won an award. The Allegro was introduced to replace the Austin 1100 and 1300 range, which we knew in Canada as the Austin ...

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If you're an American and you remember the Austin Allegro at all, it's probably because Jeremy Clarkson once famously decreed that it was marginally better than the Morris Marina. That's despite the ...

It came to exemplify the worst of the Seventies, but the replacement for Britain’s best-selling car wasn’t as bad as its critics suggested Dr. Andrew Roberts is a cinema and motoring historian whose ...

To millions, the Austin Allegro typifies the miseries of 1970s Britain: unreliable, uncomfortable and ugly. Stand by, though, for some rose-tinted nostalgia as the rust-bucket standard-bearer for an ...

It came as no surprise the Austin Allegro has been voted world's worst car. They were banned from the Blackwall tunnel as dangerous to tow, because their shells would bend and back windscreens pop out ...

Millions were spent on the Austin Allegro's development and the resulting car offered a wide choice of engines, a smooth ride, safe handling and ease of servicing. Credit: Photo: ALAMY "It's a car ...