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 ...

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 ...

Its name may have been a moniker for “fast, cheerful and lively,” but the award is not as exciting. It has been declared “Britain’s Worst Car” in an online poll conducted bythe digital motoring ...

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 ...

They were the bread and butter cars of British family motoring during the 1970s and ‘80s and still remembered nostalgically by millions– yet today they are an endangered species. But a generation of ...

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 came as no surprise the Austin Allegro has been voted world's worst car. They were banned from the Blackwall tunnel as dangerous to tow, because their shells would bend and back windscreens pop out ...

Compile a list of 10 British motoring icons, and Sir Stirling Moss would undoubtedly top it - but nestling somewhere in the middle among the Aston Martins, Jaguars and F1 drivers, you would probably ...

The Austin Allegro has been voted Britain's worst-ever car. The much-derided British Leyland car - often referred to as the 'All-aggro' - beat the Morris Ital and Talbot Sunbeam to the top spot in a ...