It is not easy to predict the future
01/27/2022
It is part of the craft of automobile magazines to announce new models when there is still no image material and only rough ideas about the technology. Auto Motor und Sporttried this in 1972 and announced the successor to the ADO16 models from British Leyland, known in this country as the Morris 1300 and Austin 1300, among others.
The yellow design came pretty close to the future, even if they were obviously a little optimistic about glazing. The Austin Allegro then appeared in 1973 and looked quite similar to the drawing.
However, the forecast for the future Peugeot 104 was less successful, although the presentation took place only a few months after the drawing was published.
The final design had significantly less glass and also appeared considerably more angular than the brown-red design in the magazine. But you can't always be right.
