The Morris Marina is an automobile that the Morris division of British Leyland manufactured in the UK throughout the 1970s—a period of great turbulence and difficulty for the British car industry. It was known in some markets as the Austin Marina, Leyland Marina, and Morris 1.7.
The 1980 replacement for the Marina, the closely related Ital, was essentially a body facelift and a change to the front suspension that replaced lever dampers with telescopic dampers but still retained torsion bars, to address criticism from the motoring press. Still, it sold reasonably well.
The Marina has been described as one of the worst cars of all time, although it was one of the most popular cars in Britain throughout its production life, narrowly beating the Ford Escort to 2nd place in the UK car sales table in 1973 and regularly taking 3rd or 4th place. The car was also exported throughout the World, including North America, and assembled with varying degrees of popularity in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
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