High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Austin Ambassador was a medium-to-large hatchback car model introduced by British Leyland (BL) in 1982. The vehicle was a heavily updated version of the Princess, an ageing model that had lacked a hatchback. Only the doors and inner structure were carried over, but the wedge-shaped side profile betrayed the car`s Princess origins, and it was not considered a truly new model.