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Non-British Cars
General Public's Opinion of our LBC's

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Published on 06-02-2020 01:29 PM

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Anecdotal

Of Prejudice, Perceptions and LBC's...
by Dr Entropy

It has always confounded me: the manner in which a major portion of the US public perceive our cars. For the most part it has been my experience that they think of the cars as “toys” or “cute” and “flimsy”. “Unreliable” comes in there too.

A personal case in point:
In another life I worked as a photographer for a studio in western Pennsylvania. ...

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