kr79:
Ok geoffrey your right jags and triumphs were the best cars on the road and were built like they were carved from granite and never broke down.
It was a conspiracy by thatcher the eec and the chinese to make out that if you could get one built inbetween strikes the doors would fall off and the electrics only worked three days a week
Or put it another way.It would have been interesting to have seen what type of car ze Germans would have turned out and the reaction of ze verkers in ze varterland might have been ‘if’ Mercedes’ and BMW’s managements and the German bankers had said that all Mercedes and BMW products had to reduced in price to a level which reflected that of their British competition.Such as a price reduction of around 40 % in cases such as the 450 etc in which much of the savings would need to be met by paying 40% less wages for the same amount of work.In addition to which the same percentage in savings would need to be found concerning all other production and materials and component costs. 
