http://localhost:8080/automobile-england Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:30:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/automobile-england#comment-65765 Fri, 26 May 2023 20:21:24 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=15552#comment-65765 Lovely piece, hank you. Please never give up on cars. “So it went with the British industry, whose approach to foreign markets was often myopic.” To “myopic” I would add “jingoistic, condescending and complacent.” If sometime you have time on your hands (!) might I suggest you search for which will take you to an opinion piece I wrote addressing that from the point of view of an ex-Brit service rep for the Canadian arm of a British car manufacturer (Rootes, actually) fighting uneven odds.

]]> http://localhost:8080/automobile-england#comment-65763 Fri, 26 May 2023 19:33:25 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=15552#comment-65763 I believe I have a copy of ‘1957 Cars’, but can’t locate it… maybe they have all dissipated into the ether.
Ferrari: I’m still delighted about the original Ford GT40. I’ve owned two British cars; both Jaguars (Mark 9 and XJS). Both were low mileage, the XJS was owned and scrupulously maintained by the original owner, whom I knew.
Both were disappointments. I say “They don’t nickel and dime you in repairs, they hundred and thousand you.” The hapless Mark 9 was purloined out of my driveway one night, never to be seen again. I still have the pink slip after 40 years missing.
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Thanks, Scott. For similar amusing Jaguar experiences, scroll to “O’Kane and the English” in my post: “Old Jags & Allards: The Whimsey and Fun of Dick O’Kane.” His experiences will be familiar to you. —RML

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