I'm sure for our regular readers who spotted my byline here, this isn't really a difficult question. Yes, under that 1980 Austin Allegro body beats the air-cooled heart of an old Volkswagen Beetle.

Millions were spent on the Austin Allegro's development and the resulting car offered a wide choice of engines, a smooth ride, safe handling and ease of servicing. Credit: Photo: ALAMY "It's a car ...

If you're an American and you remember the Austin Allegro at all, it's probably because Jeremy Clarkson once famously decreed that it was marginally better than the Morris Marina. That's despite the ...

It must have been a moment of madness that resulted in my suggesting to my Hagerty editor that I write a column about the ...

Was there ever a car more reviled than the Austin Allegro? Perhaps its contemporary, the Marina, was just as unloved, but if there’s one machine that you’re guaranteed to see in any list of crap cars, ...

It’s been 40 years since the Austin Allegro was launched and it has finally won an award. Its name may have been a moniker for “fast, cheerful and lively,” but the award is not as exciting. It has ...

Its bloated looks, poor build quality and reputation for unreliability saw the Austin Allegro nicknamed the 'flying pig' and the 'all agro'. But as far as Isobel Billingsley is concerned, there is no ...

Let's be honest, cars in the '70s and '80s weren't particularly good. I can still recall the dawn chorus of coaxing recalcitrant engines into life on a cold winter's morning. They had a habit of ...

Only a club devoted to one of Britain’s most maligned motors, the visually impaired Austin Allegro, could be spawned by a practical joke. One prankster placed a magazine advert claiming his mate, a ...

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