Originally Posted by HillRider
The Austin was a great car as long as you were willing to overlook the shoddy build quality, dreadful electrics and terrible reliability. All a Honda Civic offers is vastly better quality, wildly better reliability, the willingness to start and run every day year after year and handling and precision the Austin couldn't come close to on the best day it ever had.
Nostalgia can be very blinding.
Substitute the Austin for some other more practical American car of the past known for it's reliability...don't drag the Brits and Lucas into the mix...
-Kurt