Inside the Austin Allegro: The Car That Became the Symbol of British Leyland's Collapse

This is the story of how a family car ended up in front of a High Court judge, and how the most laughed-at car in British history became the symbol of an industrial collapse it did not actually cause. The Austin Allegro was handed an impossible brief, built from a parts bin, launched six months before the oil crisis wrecked the market, and then blamed for the failure of the company that had already failed it. The real story is what happened in the boardrooms: the wrong engine, the wrong wheel, the wrong body, and the recall that never came.