Classic Cars of the 1980s

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Across
  1. 6. Best-selling car in Britain throughout the 1980s (4,6)
  2. 7. Plymouth model featured in the 1983 horror film Christine (4)
  3. 8. Japanese carmaker that was the first to open a plant in the USA, in 1980 (5)
  4. 11. “Fire up the –“ – complete the popular catchphrase from Ashes to Ashes (7)
  5. 15. British automotive company formed in 1958, also a Ford model built as a homologation in the 1980s (8)
  6. 16. Make of car that won the World Rally Championship three years in a row from 1987 to 1989 (6)
  7. 18. Car marketed as ‘a British car to beat the world’ (6,5)
  8. 19. The name of the orange Dodge Charger from TV’s The Dukes of Hazzard (7,3)
Down
  1. 1. The black Pontiac Firebird TransAm which co-stars with David Hasselhoff in Knight Rider is known as KITT. What does KITT stand for: Knight Industries…? complete the phrase (3,8)
  2. 2. Genus of flowering plants, also a British automotive company (5)
  3. 3. Speed Doc Brown’s DeLorean had to reach in order to send Marty McFly back in time __ mph (6,5)
  4. 4. Car nicknamed the ‘Jellymould’ (4,6)
  5. 5. Nissan model produced in 1989, also a word for the horizon (7)
  6. 6. Spanish word for party, popular Ford model (6)
  7. 9. This car brand introduced the F40 in 1987 (7)
  8. 10. One of the most famous and frequently photographed owners of an Austin Metro in the 80s was Lady - - (5,7)
  9. 12. Country that became the world’s leading auto producer in 1980 (5)
  10. 13. Popular nickname for the Dodge Aries and its twin the Plymouth Reliant (1,4)
  11. 14. Purchased AMC for $1.1bn in 1987 (8)
  12. 17. French carmaker removed itself from US market in 1987 (7)