What Could Possibly Go Wrong. . . - Plot & Excerpts
With the financial muscle of Manchester City, it could have employed anyone to lead this new venture, but, for reasons that are not clear, the man it eventually selected was an Englander called George Turnbull. George had made a name for himself as managing director of Austin Morris, where he had steered the Morris Marina from what must have been a drunken doodle on the back of a beer mat into what passed in the Midlands back then for ‘production’. Rather than work with Koreans, who obviously wouldn’t know a shock absorber from a stick of rhubarb, George brought with him a team of other Englanders, including the man who’d designed the chassis of Princess Anne’s car of choice, the Reliant Scimitar. The car they created was called the Pony – rhyming slang, probably – and apparently it was exported to Britain, although I don’t remember hearing about it, seeing one or having met anyone who had decided that their life was incomplete without an oriental Marina on the drive. Certainly I never had a picture of it on my bedroom wall.
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