What is the Stag?

[Guest]

This is a question a lot of us have probably had asked and one on which we all have our views.

Lets see what the forum thinks

[keeny]

C a grand tourer, but with a few suspension mods it makes the car a great grand sports tourer
Keeny

[martin]

Keeping to your criteria, it's a true GT, more power than a saloon, but not the handling of a sports car. Martin.

[Ian Durrant]

My Dad, who owned one in the seventies and has owned lots of vehicles in and around that price range before and well since thinks its a "luxury sports car", I'd have to check with him but my guess is that in your definitions, that would make it a sports tourer.

From my point of view I think the term GT was so badly abused in the seventies and early eighties, mostly by the Ford Motor Company, (we can take a capri fit a twin choke carb and some fake wood and call it a Capri 3000 GT) that its entirely possible the term became meaningless.

The stag is a GT in the oldest meaning of the term, but its also a sports car in many peoples minds because it has a soft top. I know these aren't the real meaning of the word sports car, but frankly I challenge anyone to provide me with a hard and fast definition for a sports car. I have a feeling my Dad is right, its a luxury sports car and I think I am right too, it fits the correctly applied term of a Grand Tourer.

[jleyton]

Bearing in mind your original question "What is the Stag", I also wonder whether owners (those who can be bothered with this sort of thing !) view their cars as female or male.

Frankly, I'm not sure I always refer to mine as 'she' because she is so beautiful (I didn't say anything about stubborn, temperamental, costly etc etc ) but 'Stag' certainly isn't the most feminine of terms !

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Julian

[GDPR]

Mine is definitely male, and sometimes known as Colin.

Male because he is always happy to go down the pub with me at a moments notice

[richardthestag]

GT but in the Italian sense rather than Marina / Crapri etc etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tourer

Way too much tyre scream and not enough straight line performance to have the word sports added

My Stag is male and called Rupert - quite butch but maybe a little bit too pretty

[Moraystag]

Mine is deffo a female, because as like my wife, she's high maintenance, bad tempered etc etc LOL

Mike

[73stagman]

Mine is still an "it".... IT has become know as "The Stag" Maybe the name "Ruby" will stick once "She's" on the road LOL

[73stagman]

I also am the "votee" of the "sports" car... wishful thinking perhaps but with a fuel hungry 250 plus BHP its got to be re-considering its future as a tourer of any kind.

[Guest]

I think the Stag is a GT. Although its a STAG i think mine is female because its pretty, expensive and high maintenance. I call mine the Stig!!

Jason

[Guest]

I also am the "votee" of the "sports" car... wishful thinking perhaps but with a fuel hungry 250 plus BHP its got to be re-considering its future as a tourer of any kind.

How are you planning to get that level of BHP?

[73stagman]

With the Rover V8, Cylinder head work big valves high compression (10.5:1 pistons). The block has been "decked" to piston height I have a four barrel carb set up to go with it all and then a fast road camshaft.

250 maybe a bit of an exaggeration but over 200 is a good target

[KOY 23]

Ian.

Your spec is not far from this?

Have to rename yours "the flying pinkie"

[AlanD]

well mines called pricilla, named by the guy's wife who owned her for 25 years and i have documents with it on! so now she will keep it, and to be honest it suits her