[Fot] Standard connections

[BillDentin at aol.com]

In a message dated 08/30/2008 9:18:05 PM Central Daylight Time, 
mlcooknj at msn.com writes:


> Just to clarify a bit:
>  
> The Nash (or Hudson) Metropolitan was built by Austin at the Longbridge 
> plant and had a BMC 4-cyl, 1500, I believe. It was also marketed in the UK and 
> Europe.
> Trouble is, it wasn't a sports car or an economy sedan so it was trying to 
> create a new market niche and never penetrated.
>  
> I don't know much about the potential Standard Triumph and Nash project but 
> it could have had a lot of similarities to British Leyland. Nash was in 
> financial trouble all through the '50s and joining up with Hudson and Packard 
> didn't help. By 1964, American Motors was taking a whole new direction with 
> Rambler as it's only product name. Nash, Hudson and Packard were all gone. Think 
> what a drain AMC might have been on Standard-Triumph's finances even before ST 
> sale went to hell in 1961.
> 

Mike...

Yeah.  With such a limp effort, it's no wonder there was no penetration.

Bill (Damdinger)



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