The Morris Marina is a car which was manufactured by the Morris division of British Leyland

British Leyland Motor Corporation

British Leyland was a vehicle manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd . It was partly nationalised in 1975 with the government creating a new holding company called British Leyland Ltd which became BL Ltd in 1978...

 in the UK throughout the 1970s, which was a period of great turbulence and difficulty for the British car industry. It was known in some markets as the Austin Marina, Leyland Marina, and Morris 1.7.

The 1980 replacement for the Marina, the closely related Ital

Morris Ital

The Morris Ital was a medium-sized saloon car built by British Leyland from 1980 until 1984.-Design and launch:The Ital was first launched on 1 July 1980. It took its name from Giorgetto Giugiaro's ItalDesign studio, who had been employed by BL to manage the re-engineering of Morris Marina, a car...

, was essentially a facelift with a change to the front suspension, using telescopic dampers rather than lever dampers but still retaining torsion bars, in a hopeful attempt to address the criticism of the motoring press.