Ever since Basil Fawlty moaned about "the British Leyland Concerto in four movements, all of them slow with a four-hour tea break in between", the car industry has been an emblem of national decline.

自从巴兹尔·弗尔蒂抱怨“英国利兰协奏曲分为四部分，每部分之间都因四小时的间隔而变慢”(利兰是英国的一个汽车公司，协奏曲为其中的一个汽车品牌)，汽车工业就成为英国衰退的一个象征。

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British Steel, British Leyland, the British National Oil Corporation, Associated British Ports, Cable and Wireless, Rolls Royce.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Not for Turning

The hall of infamy is filled with costly failures like Minitel (a dead-end French national communications network long since overtaken by the internet) and British Leyland (a nationalised car company).

ECONOMIST: The state and business