Selling Leyland

摘要

By the time Leslie joined Leyland, Issigonis had started working on the 9X - the proposed replacement for the Mini, which was never put into production. I asked her if she had any dealings with the 9X or Issigonis himself. "We saw it from time to time. It never had much support internally. There wasn't the money for it, budgets were tight and there wasn't room for it. His was an approach of what he thought the motor industry ought to be, as opposed to what it was. I don't think anybody thought it had legs. There was a bit of support from the emotional sense, but not in a commercial sense.