Talk:Austin Maxi
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Description of car as "small".
[edit]Not sure that the Maxi should be described as small. In the Leyland range the Mini was small, the Maxi more in the family size. Is there any Wikipedia standard for size descriptions of cars? Ardmacha (talk) 04:21, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Dropping of Austin name?
[edit]The Austin name was used until the late 80s, the Metro was an Austin and the cars that replaced the Maxi, Ital and Ambassador were the Austin Maestro/Montego.
Wasn't until the late 80s that Austin was dropped and the Metro, Maestro and Montego became 'Marqueless', with a Rover shaped badge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.76.131 (talk) 15:26, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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Htachback?
[edit]Surely the article, as it stands, is incorrect. The Austin A40 Farina was the first hatchback? Faffhard (talk) 19:14, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- The claim in the article was originally,
It was the first British five speed five-door hatchback.
Which at least has a chance of being correct. I'm guessing overzealous copyediting morphed that into the current,It was the first British car to feature a hatchback body style.
Which is (as you observed) almost certainly not correct. I've spotted other instances in this article of purported grammar tweaks that significantly altered the meaning of the text, so there's every reason to think this is probably another. - But, since an article's lead is supposed to summarize the rest of the article, and neither of those claims is supported anywhere in the rest of the text, I've just removed that sentence completely. If someone would like to restore it, please do, but with supporting language added to the article body, and ideally a citation as well. FeRDNYC (talk) 11:43, 15 April 2025 (UTC)