Model record
Morris Marina
Background
The Morris Marina is a small family car that was manufactured by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland (BL) from 1971 until 1980. It served to replace both the Morris Minor and Morris Oxford in the Morris product line. The Marina was also sold in some markets as the Austin Marina, the Leyland Marina and the Morris 1700. It has a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout and was produced with saloon car, estate car, coupé, pickup truck, and van body styles.
Text adapted from “Morris Marina” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
Specification
- Produced
- 1,163,116 units
Still on UK roads
401
licensed vehicles · 2025
2014 ▲ 60% since 2014 2025
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Sources
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Matched on body class, era and origin from register data — never hand-picked.
Same marque
Other Morris models
- 250 JU —
- Big Six —
- Commercial J-type —
- Commercial J4 —
- Eight —
- Eighteen —
- FE —
- Fifteen —
- Fourteen —
- J2 —
- Major —
- Major 6 —
- Marshal —
- Nomad —
- Oxford Empire models —
- Oxford Six —
- Oxford bullnose —
- Oxford flatnose —
- Oxford series II —
- Oxford series III —
- Six —
- Six MS —
- Sixteen —
- Ten —
- Twelve —
- Oxford 1913
- Cowley 1916
- Minor 1920
- MINI 1926
- Isis 1931
- 8CWT 1936
- 10 1957
- 1100 1958
- Oxford Farina 1959
- 1300 1963
- 2200 1965
- 1800 1966
- 7CWT 1977
- 440 1978
- Ital 1980