Austin Metro

The Austin Metro is the supermini that British Leyland launched on 8 October 1980 as the Austin Mini Metro, intended to complement and eventually replace the original Mini. In 1982 sportier MG versions and a Vanden Plas trim followed, a Mark II came in 1984, and from 1987 the car was sold simply as the Metro after the Austin brand ended. It was built at Longbridge, which was expanded for it with a robotised body line, and in its best year, 1983, more than 130,000 were sold in Britain. This site gives every generation and every model year its own page, in 2 generations: the Mark 1 (1980 to 1984); the Mark 2 (1984 to 1990).