The Maxi's rats nest of gearbox linkage cables was soon replaced by a conventional linkage (almost as bad - I passed my driving test first time despite rather than thanks to that awful thing!) Toyota finessed cable linkages not long afterwards, and my father-in-law's cable-geared Safrane (now 18 years old) still slots into gear smoothly. Not only could the Maxi be rowed along fairly quickly , it actually popped up as the getaway car of choice for a couple of assassins in one episode of The Professionals back in the day! ("Quick, the Kalashnikoff, pass it to me it NOW! What do you mean it's under the rigid one-piece parcel shelf and you can't fold the back seat forwards because it's fouled by the rear door armrests? I told you we should have hotwired that Renault 16 at Watford Gap, idiot!")
Edited by Bilboman on 05/05/2016 at 21:04
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