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Selasa, 17 Juni 2014

From the C/D Archives: Our Test of the Austin Healey 3000 Mark II

From the C/D Archives: Our Test of the Austin Healey 3000 Mark II


Capping a three-year period which has seen BMC score a series of truly dramatic engineering and marketing breakthroughs with cars like the Mini-Minor, the MG/Morris 1100, and the MGB, the new Austin-Healey is a bit of an anachronism. It really doesn’t seem to be in keeping with the newly won BMC reputation for brilliantly executed dream-cars-come-true. It’s marvelous fun to drive, it makes a great whomping six-cylinder noise, and it has all the qualities one traditionally associates with wind-in-the-face sports cars. But somehow these qualities, of themselves, aren’t enough to keep us from being a trifle disappointed with the over-all result. READ MORE ››






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