He begins with a review of the Triumph Stag, a four-seater open top sports car launched in 1970, which won praise for its style and performance, but was condemned for its terrible engine, a 3.0 eight cylinder unit which was created from two Dolomite 1500 engines welded together, despite British Leyland having access to the reliable and powerful Rover 3.5 V8 at the time. Over its seven-year production run, the Stag was blighted by reliability problems.
