CLASSIC TAILS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO AUSTIN’S MINI METRO
“I can still recall doing an indicated 90mph in a Cortina and a 1.0 Metro sailing past on a downhill section of the M40”
September 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the Austin Mini Metro, as it was originally called. It was bound for success, but was quite deeply flawed in its own way due to the typical BL defeat/jaws/victory scenario.
The Metro is well known as being BL’s make or break car because if it failed in the marketplace, that would have been the end of BL and especially Longbridge, if not Cowley as
