Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Ellis]

The image below is one of the Triumph Stag I owned for nine and a half years and the images of the cars below it below it were meant to be it's successor - the Triumph Lynx.

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Although thousands of words have been written about the troubles of the Stag, I believe most people would agree that Michelotti's design was a very handsome car with fine lines and a certain presence.

I owned two Stags of the 25,877 which were produced between 1970 - 1977 and my opinion of the car's good looks have not changed over the years.
Mechanically unreliable and underdevelopped as the car was,had it have been properly sorted from the outset, it should have been a world beater.

It was not however, but would it's proposed successor have fared any better?

In my opinion, no. However contemporary the car looked in the late 1970s and despite the promise of the reliable ex Buick/Rover V8, I believe it would have been a step too far for an upmarket British sports/touring car with the Triumph badge. The Rover SD1 influence is clear for all to see and if the former was a handsome design deserving of "The car of The Year" in 1976, the proposed Triumph Lynx looks hideous. The project was abandoned.

I wanted to buy a Stag, I would not have bought it's successor.

Have a look at another abandoned Triumph proposed car - the monocoque development of the TR series - codenamed Triumph Fury :




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Now, isn't that gorgeous?

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[mikeC]

I agree on all counts: I drooled over the Fury when it was for sale at Sherwood Restorations, about a mile from where I then lived.
The Stag was a fine machine that was spoiled by shoddy British Leyland workmanship - it could and should have been a match for the Mercedes of the time.
The Lynx is/was a mis-proportioned abomination which would never have appealed to existing Stag owners, and didn't find much favour with anyone else either

[rjt10/4]

i have to say i like the look of the lynx convertable over the saloon version even with the rover styling and is it me or has the fury got tr and spitfire parents

[poodge]

The "saloon" version of the Lynx(the brown one on the right) looks disticntly like the then current Honda Accord.A sign of things to come?
The Fury looks nice from the front,but I'm not so sure about the rear half.It seems proportionally too small.
I'm sure that most of the Stags now on the road would have any ills sorted by now.That lovely burble makes me go all gooey

[V8 Nutter]

The Stag was a lovely looking car, the concept was great, but that engine.
It wasn't just poor workmanship on the lines they should have shot whoever designed the the engine. Those stupid angled studs with a screw driver slot to remove them.

[Riley Blue]

Lots more pictures, from all angles, of the Fury on Google Images. I think the rear overhang is too long, otherwise it's a very attractive car.

As for the Lynx, the only appealing thing about it is its name - and they pinched that from Riley!

[mikeC]

[ukdave2002]

As a kid I fell in love firstly with the sound of the stag, and then the lines; now as a supposed grown up! nothing's changed, the Lynx never looked as if it was styled with passion! The SD1 looks better! IMHO

Dave

[V8 Nutter]

Thats right, Dolomites had the same studs, but Stags also had crank problems always knocking out big ends and the timing chains were of such poor quality they regularly used to break. A German company used to supply decent timing chains

Dolomite Sprints used to have piston problems, apparently caused by poor design

[lowdrag]

Strikes me they've taken the front half of a TR7 and glued it to the rear of an SD1. No, it doesn't work in my book. But the Fury - that might have become something.

[peter scott]