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09/03/2026

A car the size of a shoebox. 🏁🇬🇧
The world's most brutal rally. Snow. Ice. Mountain roads.
The biggest most expensive cars in Europe — sliding, struggling, losing.
The Mini Cooper S — threading through them all. Perfectly. Impossibly.
Britain beating the entire world with something nobody took seriously.
Three times. 1964. 1965. 1967.
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Were you listening on the radio when Britain won? 👇

09/03/2026

A family saloon from Solihull. 🏆🇬🇧
Dominating the British Touring Car Championship.
The Rover SD1 — the same car your neighbour drove to work every morning.
Winning races at Silverstone every weekend.
Britain building family cars that win races.
That is what Britain does. That is what Britain has always done.
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09/03/2026

Le Mans. 1955. 1956. 1957. 🏆🇬🇧
Three consecutive wins. One British car.
Against Ferrari. Against Mercedes. Against the entire world.
The Jaguar D-Type — built in Coventry by men on ordinary wages.
Winning the greatest race on earth three times in a row.
No other British car has ever done this.
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09/02/2026

Made in Cowley. By British workers fighting for their jobs every single day. 🇬🇧
The Austin Maestro — not a Cortina, not a Cavalier.
But solid. Honest. Dependable. Completely British.
He never once regretted buying it.
Not for a single morning in twelve years.
Britain deserved to love this car more than it did.
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Did you have a Maestro — or did someone in your family? 👇

09/02/2026

All three built in Britain. All three finished by hand. 🏛️🇬🇧
The Jaguar XJ6. The Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit. The Bentley Mulsanne.
Moving through London together on one evening in 1983.
A moment that will never exist again.
Britain at the absolute summit of what human hands could build.
Nobody else on earth was doing all three simultaneously.
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Which one would you have chosen? One answer only 👇

09/02/2026

Most stolen car in Britain. 🚔🇬🇧
Also the car the police used to chase them.
The Ford Sierra Cosworth — criminals wanted it, police drove it, young men saved for it.
No car in 1980s Britain divided opinion more completely.
No car was more totally, magnificently, unapologetically alive.
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Did you own one — or did you always want one? Tell us honestly 👇

09/01/2026

The rarest Jaguar of the entire 1980s. 🤎🇬🇧
His colleagues drove Granadas and Rovers.
None of them knew this car existed.
He liked it that way.
The Jaguar XJ-SC cabriolet — V12 engine, targa top, built in tiny numbers.
For men who read before they bought and knew exactly what they had found.
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09/01/2026

RS Turbo. Astra GTE. 205 GTI. 🏁🇬🇧
Every junction in Britain. Every weekend in 1986.
Three young men. Three sets of eyes in three mirrors.
Lights change. All three move at once.
Britain versus Britain versus France.
The greatest hot hatch argument the 1980s ever produced.
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RS Turbo, Astra GTE or 205 GTI — which was the best? One answer only 👇

09/01/2026

156 horsepower. 16 valves. Built in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. 🏁🇬🇧
The Vauxhall Astra GTE 16V — the finest hot hatch in Europe in 1987.
Not built in Germany. Not built in France.
Built in Britain. In a factory in Cheshire.
By British workers. On British wages.
Nobody saw it coming. Britain never needs anyone to see it coming.
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GTE 8v or GTE 16V — which was the better car? Settle it below 👇

08/30/2026

He watched the Austin Metro launch on the news in 1980. 🇬🇧
His job depended on it selling.
His neighbours' jobs. His whole street's livelihoods.
He didn't say anything.
He just thought — please. Please let Britain still be able to do this.
Britain could. Britain did.
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Did you have a Metro — or did your family's work depend on it? 👇


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