Have you ever?

[TWR]

Been stung buying a 2Nd hand or fairy new car?

[sunny-dave]

'fairy new car' - I think I had a Riley Elf once :+)

< sorry TWR old pal - just couldn't resist >

[emmie]

elf and safety must be someone near.

[sunny-dave]

But I did buy a new Volvo V40 once - terrible, terrible decision

I'd had a long test drive in the previous model year version (which was fine) but when mine was delivered they'd changed the seat design and it b*ggered my back ...

[mrs_overall]

This is what you need

http://www.google.co....i:95&biw=1249&bih=559

[Baldric]

That would've been the Fairy sd,........look out, he's behind you!!

[TWR]

Bloody hell Dave, you were quick there lol

[FredPuli43]

I had several demonstrator, low mileage, Triumph Stags in succession ! Does that count? Some, indeed, might have been unused cars; dealers are required to stock all models, and have to get rid of them.( I was a director of ther family firm, which sold them) All of them were a disaster on wheels

Ah, the good old British makers! Don't you just miss them?

[boxtops]

There's a woodland theme here - fairy, stags.... :-)

[jake-the-peg]

//Ah, the good old British makers! Don't you just miss them?//

The British car makers are alive and well and sending their profits to Germany, Japan and India

I'll bet that was the time my father was running a garage selling Renaults and just before that Fiats

We forget it wasn't just British cars that were rubbish in the 70's - but they invested in robotics and new designs and new technology and we didnt

[d9f1c7]

The British car industry was killed off by Red Robbo and co allied with pro union legislation which made management impossible. They were on strike every 5 minutes for the stupidest of reasons. The Japs would not have come here had the laws on unions not been changed to make management possible. Anyone remember the Dundee debacle were the unions refused to accept a single union agreement so they built the factory somewhere ion Europe? yes ladies and gentlemen I give you the most potent of all anti jobs devices, the unions!

The Triumph stag was potentially a great car but due to several major design flaws it was a pup.

[TWR]

Although I am a union member D9F1 this bloke was a bloody idiot, if you put a screw in that door when Mr so & so should put it in 2 Strike" the bloke was a clown & tarnished the unions, but the unions where there to stop exploitation of the work force by unscrupulous bosses, but what is the position now?? are we going backwards when the workforce cannot say what is right, what is wrong because they fear their jobs are on the line, the clock is going backwards. work places need the union as much as the union need the work place, when they work together things are fine, until you get a boss that thinks differently and starts bulling the work force.

[tonyav]

The Triumph Stag V8 engine was basically two 1500cc Triumph Dolomite engines pretty much welded together and they all pretty much suffered with cylinder head problems, most people replaced the naff Triumph 3.0 litre V8 with the engine that Triumph should have used to begin with which was the Rover 3.5 litre V8 ( Buick origin ). Very rare these days to find a Triumph Stag that hasn't had a Rover V8 conversion.