Whilst motorists in other countries do attach importance to the type of car they drive, in the UK the car appears to be of far more importance, even in some cases more important that the type of house someone lives in. Britain sells on average 2,500,000 cars per year and the contract hire and leasing industry has been built as a result of the British motorist acquiring a new car with such frequency.
So what happened? How did motoring habits change over the years without the British motorist realizing it? In the 1950’s motorcars like everything else were built to last, people bought products such as cars, ovens and fridges and expected them to last a lifetime and they usually did.
The cars built today, although they have a lot more safety features, are really quite flimsy compared with the cars of the Fifties; then they were heavy and solid. Nowadays a dented wing can be pulled out with a suction pad, in the fifties getting a dent out, was more like a Blacksmith’s job.
In Britain at this time, Americans were know for being wasteful, apparently buying things that they did not really need, only to throw them away after a few years. This was a concept that was difficult for the British to grasp, when during the war they had learned not,...Read Full Article From AXXA Article
