Cars We Loved in the 1980s

It was brash it was loudthe 1980s put paid to the glumness of the 1970s and nowhere was that more obvious than in cars which took a quantum leap in durability performance equipment and style They had to Japanese quality and European design were luring away ever more customers Features like fuel-injection turbochargers computer-controlled systems and four-wheel drive became commonplace This was also the decade that brought the people-carrier and the off-roader new classes of car that radically reshaped family transport Meanwhile seatbelt-wearing became law the M25 opened speed cameras appeared and ram-raiding was the new motoring nemesis Relive everything car-related in Britain in the 1980s with Giles Chapman