Great motoring. Great value. Metro

Mention of a bottom of the range motorcar conjures up visions of a stark interior, with little comfort and even less luxury. In direct contrast, the standard Metro is extremely well appointed both inside and out, in a style that puts many so-called 'luxury hatchbacks' to shame. It offers incredible value for those who want all round low cost motoring.

This Metro has a single bench seat at the rear, which also folds down to create the Metro's unrivalled 45.7 cu.ft. of total loadspace volume. Metro solves the perennial problem of what to do with the parcel shelf when tall parcels are carried - it locks on to the back of the rear seat squab. All seats - and the inside door panels - are tailored in an attractive embossed vinyl, which is hard wearing and easy to keep clean.

The Metro specification contains many of the items to be found in the Metro L. And, of course, it shares all the advantages of advanced technology - performance, good handilng, refinement, reliability, safety, fuel economy and 12,000 mile servicing.

Hm. This car has absolutely nothing in it, so they're reduced to talking about how stylish it is. (Interesting that the word style is used in the write-ups for each of the cars in the range.) They couldn't even afford to stick a proper model name on the back and so just have to refer to it as "The Standard Metro".

Note that an even more spartan Metro was launched a few years later - the City. Whilst they stretched to a model name (scribbled on in felt tip), they took out the passenger sun visor.