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In another surprising failure for the British Leyland company, the Austin Maxi should have been a superb complimentary model for the small family car range between the likes of the Mini and the Morris Marina, and had all the ingredients on paper to become a market leading car with its 5-door hatchback design and 5-speed gearbox for ideal motorway cruising.

Unfortunately, management interference and the ill-conceived attempts at putting together the much-publicised gearbox led to a public relations disaster upon the car's launch in 1969 as the first new model of the British Leyland company, combined with an aesthetic that looked to be at least a decade out of date on the day it was released.

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