Mandela alisema alipokutana na Mwalimu mara ya kwanza, 1962, Mwalimu alikuwa anaendesha gari ndogo aina ya Austin:
"I met with Julius Nyerere, the newly independent country's first president. We talked at his house, which was not at all grand, and I recall that he drove himself in a simple car, a little Austin. This impressed me, for it suggested that he was a man of the people." - (Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom:The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1994, p. 538).