Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Ed's Auto Reviews" channel.

Interesting context. The Leyland Sherpa - and her upsized Convoy derivative - and its sort-of-successor-that-wasn't have a complicated history 🤔
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@uncipaws7643 Ironically Jeep is a near-non-entity in the UK, and has been since the latter cut off parts supplies for the Willys Jeep post-WWII... which ironically is the main reason Land Rover came about / had such a large market segment to sell in. Classic case of hindsight though; as Jeep probably thought demand across the atlantic postwar would be too low to be worth bothering.
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@mbryson2899 The Austin 7 too, which one variant of the classic Mini was named in honour of. (as the Austin Se7en , while Morris called their version the Mini Minor )
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A pity they never used THX as an acronym; especially for a V8 sports car ~_^ .
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@bradevans7935 True; though that would be a funny aside. "Did you know Lucasfilm once tried to sue Chrysler over a car name?"
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@southofthemersey7351 For a 4x4, the Defender was cheap, and available in decent numbers. A bit like the Mini too, there was no class segment attached to it; unlike the majority of plastic clad & largely offroad incapable SUV's that came later.
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Another classic nonsensical government imposition, from the same decade that imposed the god awful ""CAFE"" standards that've slowly ruined cars in the years since. Maybe we'll get lucky and said ""standard"" will be repealed, removing the motivation for massive and hideous lorry chassis in drag and useless ""crossovers"".
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FWD on a motor-home... 🤢🤢 .
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03:35 Not quite. La Puta (two words) literally means "The Whore" in Spanish. Laputa (one word) means nothing in spanish, nor English, where the word originated in the book Guillivers Travels. Mazda named the car after the fictional floating city from said book... well a certain Studio Ghibli film that also had to contend with this daft misreading of the name. (no spanish person who understands SPaG seriously states Laputa [one word] means what they claim it does)
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And yet with their UK subsidiary they failed to reuse any of its marques (unlike GMC with their Vauxhall & Bedford divisions)...and was the first of the US big three to crash out of the UK - and European - markets 😂 . (though Peugeot would fail even harder with the same Rootes & Simca assets) Chrysler isn't very good at marketing - among other things - by-in-large 🤦‍♂️ .
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Addendum to the Amphicar story: the only Amphibious Ice Cream Van in the world is a modified one. She's called HMS Flake 99 (no, really 😊). Then again we Brit's do have some of the only Ice Cream Vans with three axles and all wheel drive 😂 .
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The Austin Metro (1980's - 1997ish) arguably counts too; being the only all-British mass production car to outsell the Mini (1959 - 2000) or the Morris Minor.
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UK: same (not to mention that various fictional cars in children's media look like that)
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04:38 Best part ^_^ . A whole video of such ironic model names would be great.
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Strange that Packard didn't just buy a lower end car make, and have that be their solution 🤦‍♂️
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@bkark0935 Aye; there was potential there, especially if a facilities consolidation, common platform's and components strategy was adopted between them.
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Bulgemobile Fireblast So~ basically the precursor of the Thundercougar Falconbird .
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Tis called a joke 😂
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One notable prewar named car is the SS Jaguar . The maker, SS (aka Swallow Sidecars ), had started out only a few years prior, making sidecars for Motorbikes. The result was not just one of the first cars named after a big cat, but was also so well recieved that the manufacturer - after WWII when their original name was thought to make buyers think of a certain german organization - renamed themselves after their most recent model of car. And thus, Jaguar ( Daimler-Jaguar as they'd later be) came about. Side detail: IIRC there's never been a Jag' with the SS (Super Sport) acronym.
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Still: perhaps this weird obcession car companies had with acronyms is another reason why 6000 SUX was the only named car in Robocop. (other than being a certain car company [that was part-paying for the film] being cheeky to one of their rivals)
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Hmm; Ed's Boat Reviews ... I like this idea 😁
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@davidjones332 Precisely. It's a pity too, as they probably would have sold Chrysler platformed but UK adapted cars quite well under a Hillman (regular), Humber (luxury), Sunbeam (performance) & Commer (commercials) setup 🤔 . Saying this as someone who's family had a Chrysler (Hillman) Avenger in the late-'70's / early-'80's. Not a bad car, but one who's company image had been ruined by the inept Americans not making good use of their assets. Then again it's not just the Americans. MG lost out on a fortune of promising MGF sales to the USA, because then owners BMW didn't want the MGF taking sales away from their Z3 😑 . (which makes one wonder why they outbid Ford for Austin-Rover in the first place, instead of making a deal like they later did with VW over RR-Bentley [a deal VW lost out hard on])
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Nah. Historically (from the early 1900's until the late-1980's) the national UK car make was Austin . Since then; Jaguar & Land Rover have been the most relevant, as unlike Aston Martin Jag' & Landie are volume car makes. Vauxhall ceased to be relevant at all when Opel took over all Car R&D (another dumb GM penny pinch), and Ford UK similarly got diluted into irrelevance as Ford R&D and production was increasingly outsourced. So~ yeah; Jaguar-Land Rover is the one, as they're a UK based volume manufacturer that does all the R&D and production here (more or less). Tata may own them, but the indians seem to have learned the hard won lesson that Honda, Peugeot, GM, Chrysler & Ford never did: let Brit's do what they do best; don't limit them to rebadging foriegn tin.
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@smellsuperb1 That, and galvanizing wasn't common either. Still: not as bad as some FIAT, Alfa & Lancia cars though, which started rusting within weeks of sale, due to - among other things - the bodyshells getting damp before they got basecoated.
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