Japanese cars | Mazda 323 | Drive in |1977
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- The Mazda 323 Hatchback trying to take the British market by storm back in 1977.
First shown: 27/04/1977
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Still own my 1979 model. Excellent working condition. At 38 years this car is indeed a great little gem.
it looks great too! wouldn't mind one now meself...
Fredzorro Che daily driver?
Driven on a daily basis. Original everything . Starts like a dream .
Fredzorro Che the hero we need
Do you live in the UK. My parents had a Mazda 929 when we lived in Australia in the seventies. Great car. But Japanese cars had terrible corrosion problems in Britain at that time. As I found on returning. Hence why the old ones are so rare here now. He talks about rust trap protection but it didn't work. Italian cars were even worse. All cars rusted then here. But Japanese cars disolved withing a few years. Sorry but true.
Great little cars. My aunt had one with aftermarket air conditioning that would start shooting ice in humid weather, very effective for Brisbane summer days!
I absolutely LOVE these old car tests.
My parents switched from an Austin Maxi to a Toyota Corolla in 1979 and the difference was immense. The Corolla, while not brand new, came with equipment that wasn't standard on the Maxi such as cloth seats, reversing lights, a push button radio, lighter, clock and map reading lights. It never went wrong once in 18 months of ownership and returned 40 mpg on the open road.
A great car, reliable, inexpensive and well equipped.
I passed my driving test in a T reg 323. Lovely little car and to be honest it's no wonder Japanese cars did so well. The Japanese listened and gave the customers what they wanted - good levels of equipment, reliability and darn good value for money. Whilst the Japanese were giving us cars with carpets as standard, we were still producing the Morris bloody Minor.
Cute little car in a lovely colour. It sadly came off the road in March 1990 though.😢
I've had several cars in my life, by far miss the 323 the most.
Aah, the 1970s. When building a children's playground over a concrete base wasn't dangerous enough, so we drove cars around them in tight circles for good measure.
I got one of these in the 80's as a bargain basement corner at a dealer for £150 pounds , best money I spent then as it showed me about reliability and dependability ! all the british cars I had were crap !! and always breaking down but not this Mazda it just kept going and going, these days i'm a toyota/honda follower/owner , those Japanese know how to build reliable cars.
@Thamestv keep these clips coming, they are a fantastic insight to what the cars of my childhood were really like.
70s England was a special place back then. A children's playground in the middle of a parking lot. And lots of brown sweaters and brown nylon trousers
My uncle was in the motor trade when the first of the Japanese cars came into the market. When they began to receive the first shipments of cars, from the likes of Nissan Mazda etc they asked for the common fault list. This was normal for British manufactures to supply a list to assist the trade to identify problems likely to be inherent with the product.
The Japanese companies were surprised at these requests for faults. They claimed that when their vehicles were released into the market any faults that had been found had already been resolved before release.
The British car trade were highly sceptical of this. However, the British car manufactures soon found out that they had underestimated the new suppliers. As history now shows, the inability of British manufactures to produce quality high volume vehicles eventually almost collapsed the industry.
"almost" ... what is still made in the UK ?
Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin, General Motors, Nissan, Honda , Toyota, Mini, Bentley, RR
Don't forget Ford!
GM is exit in Europe
Vauxhall is now PSA (Peugeot).
The only 100% UK car manufacturer remaining is Morgan.
All the rest are India, Japan, China and Germany owned car brands.
amojak more cars have been in Britain in recent years than every before - what’s your point?
I had a couple of these in early eighties, good little cars.
My mother always warned me about creeps driving round the playground in Japanese hatchbacks
3:00 Ah yes, reminds of tearing round the local playground, sending all the kids flying, leaving behind me a trail of abandoned half eaten Mivvi's and mangled Choppers.
Good times.
Haha, that's hilarious
My cousin taught me how to drive his 1978 chevette which was the same color as this Mazda in a playground.
These new cars from Japan came as a major shock to British manufacturers, and as a welcome surprise to British buyers, in the seventies, cars that were reasonably well built, very reliable and fairly reasonably priced.
*How well they did you say? if l am not mis mistaken I believe they own a few of your car companies now.*
"Narrow-hipped orientals" -- Wouldn't hear that term in today's news reports, now would we?
I dont know Zack..are you offended? Go start a protest and tell the world how offended you are.
Better than being fat and wide I guess? :-)
Pipe down ricky gervais
In 1977 no one said Asian. Oriental was the proper word at that time.
It's just a fact they're generally more diminutive
Thank you so much for sharing. Information on this model on you tube is very hard to find! We had one of these and the room in the back seat was actually very good. It's only negative was a lack of torque but Mazda addressed this by increasing the capacity to 1.4 litres in 1978. A brilliant car...wish we still had it!!!
+1
Slam the boot why don't you! The rear wiper nearly fell off! Then the door with that 70's sound.. 'clang'. :)
I didn't know that Chris Goffey presented 'Drive in' before moving to 'Top Gear'!
He looked much more 70s in the 70s :-P
Stupit fuk
Once Mazda took its mainstream cars FWD, they really made the effort to make a world-class chassis in a way other Japanese competitors didn’t manage.
The GLC! These were mostly rust buckets when I was aware of them but they were still around.
Tax due: 1st March 1990. lasted 13 years better than most datsuns.
Datsuns were much more smoother to drive though, especially the little 100a
I was waiting for another tax due reply. I always enjoy them. I looked up that website. They would not let me on there because I don't live in the United Kingdom.
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It had a good innings.
GREAT to see Chris Goffey here.
Quite a cute little car, really. I remember these lasting into the early 90s.
Mazda made the station wagon / estate version of this car BRAND-NEW until almost THAT long...
Looks like a Great Little Car
My first car. A 1981 Mazda 323 1.4 SSP. I remember it with love.
mine was a Mitsubischi Colt 1.2 GL
Chris Goffey - looks insanely young but instantly recognisable by his voice.
As is Shaw Taylor!
These are fairly short and sharp reviews - much better than the soft entertainment of TG and GT of today.
Ok boomer
I hate to see people abusing things by flinging car doors out like that, making them bend back against the hinges. :-(
At least with modern cars, you could hang off the door sideways and it should be fine.
If you were an alpha you’d know it was a classic move.
Oh well!
Chris Goffey is the archetypal 70s man.
Those in the American audience (you'd be surprised the amount that would pop up for these Drive-in snippets) may remember this as the Great Little Car (GLC, model name recently taken by Mercedes for a compact crossover SUV), which came in 3 and 5-door hatchback and station wagon (estate) variants w/1.4 and 1.5L gas / petrol engines, depending on year. I don't believe there was a sedán variant until the next platform, then known in US as the 323, just as this Mazda was already known in Europe.
The US got a sedan on the 2nd generation one, and the name 323 arrived in the US for the 3rd generation for the 1986 model year.
I owed new in '78 base model. If I recall the car was very well built. No major driving issues. I've long traded years ago. Just happened to come across this video tape.
From Los Angeles California USA 🇺🇸
Had it, i want this car again. If they where made new they would not feel dated, not even in 2019. They are just not a smartphone with four wheels.
The quality of the recording is excellent for 1977!
the uploader is the production company, so it's sourced from the original studio tape cartridge
@@RWL2012 The tape format used for broadcast in the 70's was Reel To Reel 2" quad videotape format.
@@anthonyperkins7556thanks 😊
It's amazing how things have changed, I drive an automatic 3 litre petrol BMW limited to 155mph and actually achieve better fuel consumption than that. But, I'd go back to the 70s in a heartbeat just to experience again the freedoms we had then.
Very reliable and economic city runabouts!
The GLC here in America until 1985 when it was called the 323
I actually learned to drive in one of these.
1:04 - was he trying to get the rear window to break? What a berk
Clearly the "market" nor the presenters understood the concept of the hatchback as yet, complaining that it is shorter than a station wagon - that's the whole point my friend ánd it would grow to become the largest motoring segment for 30 years to come, only recently overtaken by the SUV / CROSS OVER
Sold!! That’s the car I would have bought
The 80s and 90s models was excelent
that "Thames" intro will always remind me the Benny Hill show LOL (yeah, i know, i'm not english)
carig121 also for me the " Thames" intro was not only for Benny Hill but also for The Tomorrow People, Danger mouse and Count Duckulia. I think the Dave Allen Show had this intro also. Even though I was raised in America my family and I watched alot of British television shows.
LOL!That was my first thought too
It reminds me of Rainbow...(Bungle George and Zippy....)
I'm also not English (I'm from Poland) and for me this intro also foreshows Benny Hill or Mr. Bean, but also i.e. Wind in the Willows, which I loved as a child in the 80's.
In "my neck of the woods" (Puerto Rico) it was both "Benny Hill" (on Cable TV from New York City) and "The World At War", the famous '70s docu mini-series (both on Cable TV and dubbed to Spanish on local TV).
It's how they describe themselves on the slogan "A Talent For Television" (give the "old timers" at Thames "a pat on their backs")...
Not a bad little motor. My dad had the 5 door which made it easier to get in and out of the back.
We had a golden yellow 1.4L GLC in the USA. Started every time but like many Japanese cars from that time, rust killed it in about 5 years.
That's quite a face rug Chris is sporting there!
He's got his 'Yorkshire Ripper" on!
I remember Griss Coffee from Top Gear - he was on the take I recall - always gave British Leyland cars a glowing review - those were the days!
compared to clarkson who was onthe take to destroy BL and rover
Jusb1066 I thought Clarkson had it in for Vauxhall as well!
Better than any chevette
Nice small but well made vintage car looks like a volvo
70's Datsuns are my favorite cars ever! I would kill to get my hands on a Datsun 180b SSS coupe! Pity they were also the fastest rusting cars of all time!
they're also getting expensive.
At tech last year in 2017 they still had E1 Mazda engines - 1100cc used in these era cars, to show how carburetors worked. I breezed carbs having motorbikes, I know my way around a carb or four. Had a 1986 323, E5? B5? Can't remember now. Fwd single cam and carb went good for what it was great little car, had it while I painted my first car panther black - 1989 GT sport hatch - factory gloss black paint (was faded) sunroof, Fe dohc efi engine, 5 speed almost 13 years later I still have it. Yeah, I quite like Mazda's, I blame the GT it started it all.
these things go so hard with with a rotary. Mazda made the engine bay the exact same as a RX3 less the bolt up engine mount.
Had a Austin 1100 in the early 80s which I crashed. I can honestly say even to this day I still think about it.I bought a Mazda 323 which was bullet proof but it was not a patch on the Austin
Ha, my father bought one in 1980, brand new. I remember the part vinyl seats getting really hot. We had to buy a trailer to get the camping equipment in for holidays, which was a faff, so he sold it after only a year and got a second hand Saab 99 Combi Coupé, a proper car in his view as it had a 2 litre engine.
A reminder of how thirsty cars used to be. 30mpg was normal even on hatchbacks.
Not necessarily. I had a 1968 Hillman Imp. I went on a touring holiday with a my family of four. We did 900 miles that week on 18 gallons of petrol. I think in urban use it did about 40+ mpg. However it did have an advanced engine design for that era. It was a light alloy overhead cam engine. Despite being only 875cc, it outperformed the 1100cc offerings from other companies, whose engines were still mainly pre-war designs. It was a favourite with the police for its agility and ability to perform a fast U-turn in pursuit of villains.
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Yes, the Imp got good gas mileage, but that's mostly because half the distance was covered in the back of a flatbed after the engine overheated once again.
Just imagine living in a time when car manufacturers would charge you extra for a laminated windscreen!
Heated rear window and non shatter windscreen 😍😍
Competing with the Allegro 🤣
That’s not too difficult
Ah yes but the Allegro is now a cult classic (?)
My dad had one of these - 5 door on a T plate....they may have taken rust prevention seriously - everywhere except the tailgate lol - my dad still waxes lyrical about his
The days before Top Gear, when auto tests had to be performed at a children's playground attached to a horse racing track.
"Narrow-hipped orientals." o.o Yep, this was definitely from 1977.
Read: normal sized humans.
I remember trying one of these as my possible first car (second hand). I agree the boot was poor, but I found the headroom was terrible in the front. It was a good solid car though.
Had a 79 model great reliability
I think this will be a really good seller, so glad theyre making it again :-)
back in the day when Car Reviews spoke referred to important things such as comfort, ease of spannering and equipment... how nice that there's not even a mention of its 0-60mph capability
It was either 17 or 19 seconds.. think 19.3 from memory.
had one started every time
I had one like this!!! however it was 5 door! my first CAR!!! bought in 1988 (second hand)
Also my first car in 1988, aged 17. It was a vivid green DL spec from 1980. MYB 513V. Paid £375 for it. The clutch soon burnt out, and not long after I had a new one fitted the electrics caught fire and killed the car. 😄
are towing hooks at the front a plus? Indicates the car may need to be towed................
4:29 "its got a good gearbox". Yes it was. A pity Mazda seemed to stop R&D in the gearbox department around this time. The engines are fantastic! GTX/R Familia/323's were legends for their time. And yet let down by weak gearboxes. 1987, and the GD 626 is launched. Let's use a gearbox from a 12 valve 95 hp engine in a 16 valve dohc 150 hp engine. with almost 80 Nm of extra torque. 320,000 km's my one lasted. I have another gearbox from a 12 valve going in which I'm taking apart and checking.
Nope, mazda's manual gearboxes are still excellent.
Strange that the Mazda 323 did not have a radio as standard unlike the rival Datsun 120Y.
Datsun tended to fit AM radios to their cars with MW and LW on them, no VHF-FM. So daytime MW fading in some parts of the UK on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 wasn't uncommon.
safety glass was an extra option back then ?
An Allegro competitor? It had much to live up to. To be honest, I quite like the Allegro, but I agree, this car had alot going for it in ways that the Allegro didn't.
Are James May and Chris Goffey related?
C’était ma 1ère voiture que j’ai eu en 1982 et que j’ai gardé pendant 3 ans 1/2 et que j’ai donné à ma sœur qui l’a gardé encore 3 ans .
Après celle là , j’ai acheté une Mazda 626 coupé 2 portes que j’ai toujours ! 😃
Always like the looks of this smaller car.
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Date of first registration: April 1977
Year of manufacture: 1977
Cylinder capacity (cc): 1272 cc
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I LOVE IT!
Ahhh the 70s... showing extras like tow hooks and laminated windscreen for 30 £ while test driving the car in children playground!
That is a funny "playground" : some climbing toys placed on solid concrete in a place accessible to vehicles. I guess safety concerns were lower then. Though an ambulance would have no problems getting to that playground.
Reversing lights!
Since these were apparently options on other cars, I do wonder what cars in the 70's actually came with. "Oh you want a brake pedal? That'll be £56."
Chris Goughey looking like a long lost big foot!!😂😂😂😂😂 nylon flares for those shocks to the testes!😂😂😂😂😂
323 in most of the world, GLC for "Great Little Car" in North America... really!!!
Mazda was working in conjunction with Ford in technological exchange so some of the yhings one this wrre ysed on Ford and vice versa
Wow young chris goffey
Meanwhile, the 2019 Mazda3(23) is a wee-bit short of space in the back as well. The more things change...
Was this show on the equivalent of like Bloomberg tv? The reviews always seem to take the angle of sales and competitiveness, rather than truly showcasing the cars in any significant way. I mean they didn't even say how much horsepower the engines have.
44kw
I remember these-Tarzan's favorite car.. Most were black if I recall correctly.
Looks twice the car compared to the blue 74 golf tested on the channel. Far fewer problems with Japanese cars in my motoring lifetime. You can keep your German rides.
When I hear "Deluxe", the Trabant 601 deluxe comes into my mind...
...the 'deluxe' meant, that there was a plastic 'deluxe'-sign attached to the back of the (lets call it) "car".
LOL my KIA does the same MPG But is much more performance more comfy rust resistant and equipment technology has advanced greatly since
All the luxury of stick on timber and more
Lovely.
Reminds me of my Mk l Fiesta.
SKK 494R was last taxed in 1989.
What?
Rear wheel drive
There's only one wing mirror. 😂😅🤣
That is mad...😮
How hard did he slam that f*****g boot?!?!?!?!
He looks likes Teddy Ruxpin with that hair and beard
Good grief Chris you can hardly see your face for hair
I wouldn't have recognized him if it wasn't for the distinct voice!