Vanguards VA10201 Princess - Glacier White

1:43 Scale

When launched in 1975 the ADO71 project, or Princess, carried over the transversely mounted 1.8-litre and 2.2-litre engines from the car it replaced, the ADO17 'Landcrab'. At £2562 the smooth and quiet larger engined 110 BHP six-cylinder Princess was a very appealing and luxurious car that would perhaps have done better in the market place if Leyland had actually made it the hatchback both its stylist, Harris Mann, and its chief body engineer, Tom Penny, wanted it to be. However at the time management thought it would take sales from the Maxi, which was, by the time the Princess was launched, a six-year-old design.