Clarkson talks Stag

waxing lyrical on the Stag

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Autos & Vehicles

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• auto
• triumph
• stag

[Staaaag]

Commswarrior: as an engineer, you would have been to spell "galleries" - as to the Stag engine being shit, I would venture to suggest that your engine rebuilding skills match your spelling and that's why you had to replace the engine with a Buick - go back to fixing telephones and leave your Halfords socket set in your garage.

[Staaaag]

The Triumph engine is an absolute peach when it is running right - and mine usually is! Since I have had my own Stag, it has been the model of reliability and has never left me stranded and I use it daily in all weathers. All this from a car over 30 yrs old? Try that from a Mondeo - Most people who bitch about the Stag have never owned one, and are just regurgitating ill-informed secondhand opinions as fact.

[Nicodemus1971]

Having said that, I think Clarkson does not pay due credit to Rover by calling it a Buick V8. The engine was a dog when they got it. It was only on account of Rover's vast experience in alloy casting technology that really made it into the legend it was (and still is).

[commswarrior]

My Stag is still going strong - after taking the engine out and rebuilding it piece by piece. When that didn't work (the engine suffered countless piston faults and snapped valves, I replaced it with an engine from the V8 Disco - and I've never had a problem with the car again.

As an engineer, I can see the problems with this engine - it's weak block, with very little reinforcing, twists and contorts. The coolant galaries are WAY too small.

It's a shit engine that never should have been made

[BuzzLOLOL]

.. Americans know the song Spirit in the Sky by the original author and recorder of it: Norman Greenbaum

[BuzzLOLOL]

.. The Buick 215" aluminum V8 first appeared in a 1952 Buick Show car... an extremely long-lived engine...it went into full production mid 1960... highest points in USA were 1963 Buick 200HP w/ 4 bbl. carb. and the '62/'63 Olds 215 version with turbocharger and 215 HP... Rover kept it in full production till about 2000... still in limited aftermarket production today, up to 5.0L/305"... survived neglect British engines/cars were expected to get close servicing almost daily to keep them going...

[RobertoAndClaire]

@powerje75. You have to look after and service an original Stag engine. If you do, it will perform as designed. Mine does. 1976, and still working just fine thank-you. Lazy owners brought this car to an end, not shite engineering.

[spartacusvikinga]

He forgot to say that the Buick V8 first was installed into the Rover P5B in 1967.

[80sfordman]

Clarkson also fails to mention that the Buick/Rover V8 was also used in the Rover P5.

So is the Triumph V8 basically 2 Dolomite slant-4's welded together?

[midsaint776]

don'nt know about clarkson talks stag , but clarkson definately talks bollocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[powerje75]

@peterfarrow My Stag has the original V8 in it and it's a beaut!

[triden55]

@EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME Spirit in the sky

[MrJezza31]

stags are great but i cant see what jeromeys got against the marinor its a great car so was the rover p6

[peterfarrow]

The stag 3.0 v8 engine was a total dog, the best thing to do with it was to remove it, through it in the bin and stick a rover v8 in it instead.