JUDAS PRIEST Bassist IAN HILL Mourns Demise Of The British Car Industry

July 4, 2008

Motor Trend reports: Ian Hill, founding member and bassist for pioneering heavy-metal band JUDAS PRIEST, drives a 2004 Mercedes ML 500. But he would prefer to own more cars made by a British-owned company.

"I sort of mourn the British car industry that's now owned by foreign concerns," Hill said, from Luxenbourg, during the band's European leg of the tour to promote their new album, "Nostradamus".

He wistfully recalls growing up in the Midlands region, where the heart of the British motor industry once was. The British Motor Corporation had such marques as the Austin, Austin-Healey, and MG and made the popular Austin Minis in the 1960s.

"At one time, the British Motor Corporation, was one of the world's leading manufacturers of everyday cars," Hill said. "It was technologically streets ahead of the opposition. But because of bad management and communist union leaders who seemed to be striking over the slightest little things, it went under. Which is a great shame."

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