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Whatever our feelings Time magazine carry a strong reputation and Stags being labelled a lemon along with all the other publications who insist on applying 40 year old viewpoints will continue to act against any dea of stronger prices for Stags no matter what we demand for the cars...the market ( who read these publications ) will decide.
Enjoy it ! At least it keeps them affordable and able to be repaired by specialists, if necessary, whose labour charges reflect the mistaken idea that...it's just a Stag.
The Stag is in good company with disasters like the Ford Model T, DeLorean, Ferrari Mondial, Jaguar E-type S3, Lotus Elite, MGA Twincam etc etc and other cars nobody wants...
Last edited by jagorstag; 24 September 2018, 21:36.
Actually its quite amusing.
it would be interesting to remind the author that a third of all Stags ever made are still in existence. How many other failures can match that?
Recalling my Stag back in the '70's he isn't far wrong. Thankfully many people persisted and cures for the ailments were found, and a lot of better informed people exist nowadays to expound the virtues of the car.. The one thing he highlights as a good point, the design and appearance, is probably why people persisted with such a dog of a car, which, when in production, some main dealers were advising customers not to buy.
Actually its quite amusing.
it would be interesting to remind the author that a third of all Stags ever made are still in existence. How many other failures can match that?
Hhhhmmmm not really.
if you find a Stanpart original body panel for a TR series car it's supposed to be easier to fit than a repro panel, EXCEPT there are a few ex.Triumph employees still with us who recount that certain original panels that were NOT a good fit originally were swapped with another better fitting example and put back into stock for some other mug to have trouble fitting ! That probably means the lucky buyer who has happened upon it in an auto jumble 50 years later.
By the same virtue journalists ruminating upon why a 1970s car with rumoured bad problems ( mainly mechanical) still has large numbers left available will probably surmise that cars with a problem are left in garages and lockups until discovered 20 years later thereby showing up as larger than normal numbers in existence. Talk about looking at the glass half empty !
Suppose in 30 years time perhaps the Tesla Model 3 will feature in a similar article should it not sell in big enough numbers to turn Tesla from a loss-making venture into a profit-making business....
Suppose in 30 years time perhaps the Tesla Model 3 will feature in a similar article should it not sell in big enough numbers to turn Tesla from a loss-making venture into a profit-making business....
The software will have crashed by then and the car wont work!
The Stag is in good company with disasters like the Ford Model T, DeLorean, Ferrari Mondial, Jaguar E-type S3, Lotus Elite, MGA Twincam etc etc and other cars nobody wants...
No, really, NO-ONE wants a Mondial 8 ! (as opposed to a Mondial QV!)
The comments on the cars cracked me up - nice humour! Try this one out:
The most ineffective bit of French engineering since the Maginot Line, the Renault Dauphine was originally to be named the Corvette, tres ironie. It was, in fact, a rickety, paper-thin scandal of a car that, if you stood beside it, you could actually hear rusting. Its most salient feature was its slowness, a rate of acceleration you could measure with a calendar. It took the drivers at Road and Track 32 seconds to reach 60 mph, which would put the Dauphine at a severe disadvantage in any drag race involving farm equipment.
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