On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 11:29:00 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:


The Nash Metropolitan was hideous then as now. A UK designer's attempt at
a scaled down US car incorporating all the worst aspects of them.


********, I suppose because it was assembled by Austin you assume it
was designed here as since the days it all went pear shaped in the
late 60's it has become fashionable to knock anything done by BMC and
the firms that were part of it.

The Nash Metropolitan was designed in the US by Americans
with some influences from some larger Nash cars that had an input from
Pininfarina.
Fisher& Ludlow who made the body pressings and Austin who provided
mechanicals and assembly did so purely as contractors , Fisher were
still independent when negotiations started but became part of BMC by
the time of production in1953.
Austin only sold a version for non competing markets from 1956.


G.Harman