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Prototypes with a purpose: while some design exercises are destined to get no further than the styling studio or motor show stand, the cars produced under Leyland's Saftey and Energy Conservation programmes were to provide ideas that would, to one extent or another, influence the generation of models that followed.
Safety First: the SSV/SRV cars
Following the massive move to passive safety in the USA, the European manufacturers quickly realised that in order to remain in US market, they would need to comply with upcoming legislation. |
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BL Technology: the ECV cars
R&D finally became a serious business at BL at the end of the 1970s – the ECV cars were the result of this ongoing research. |
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The aluminium Austins
ALCAN and Austin-Rover worked together on more than the ECV3 prototype, as this Metro based research programme reveals... |
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Copyright © 2002 Keith Adams
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