A reasonably good car, sales of which were destroyed by grossly inaccurate
reporting by the press. The same ignorant, ill-informed or just plain dishonest
journalists, by the way, which in two consecutive years voted the two worst
rust-buckets ever, the Lancia Beta and the Alfasud, as Eurpoean Car of the Year.
I suppose they were correct, sort of, because many Betas in particular did not
even last the year. Allegros tended to last very much longer. We see the
same thing in the software industry, with our well-known opponents Pretenderle,
Lyings, Didiot, MOGster, Botty and Brown (did I forget any?) spouting voluminous
trash about anything which does not originate from their applicable
puppet-master. In those days, and still, the puppet-master of most motoring
journalists seems to be BMW, a producer of very ordinary but greatly over-rated
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