tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post2046965687018397713..comments2024-03-28T13:56:50.590+00:00Comments on Phil's Workbench: Delivering Leyland Lynx spare partsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-63907572395775942932015-08-08T21:40:16.444+00:002015-08-08T21:40:16.444+00:00Strange how BL sometimes recycled names - for comp...Strange how BL sometimes recycled names - for completely different types of vehicles.<br /><br />I was already aware of the Lynx name being used on trucks - but cars? I'd never heard of one by that name.<br /><br /><br />To be honest, when I started reading about a Leyland Lynx, I initially expected to see some stuff about a single deck service bus - with a jerky transmission.<br /><br />I actually liked those things even less than the National (which they replaced) - and I didn't like them very much because, together with those dreaded converted breadvans, they saw off Bristol REs in my part of the world.<br /><br /><br />Saying that, I wonder if killing off the TR7 fastback - whatever it might have ended up being called - was as bad an idea as some people might think.<br /><br />OK - from some angles - the TR7 might look good - but, even if you ignore all the jokes about 1970s build quality, was the TR7 ever the most practical of vehicles? I also wonder how many TR7 fastbacks they would have sold.<br /><br />Would the things have been seen as a welcome option?<br /><br />Would they actually have been seen as rarely as possible - or, preferably, not at all - except as an unwanted distraction that might have served to debase the "brand"? (Here, I'm thinking about the reactions of some US fans of Ford Mustangs - on some online forum sites - to suggestions that somebody might have been thinking of offering a station wagon version of their favourite "pony car".)<br /><br /><br />I'm not sure what to think - and I guess I'll never find out.<br /><br />Probably just as well, in the circumstances.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-70782814932281117282015-08-08T06:57:43.227+00:002015-08-08T06:57:43.227+00:00That is one gorgeous rear, shame it wasn't put...That is one gorgeous rear, shame it wasn't put into production. I have a lot of love for the MG SV in the background, with the right marketing department, that could have put MG back on the map as a sports car builder rather than just rebadged rovers.Nick Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16127175841352825227noreply@blogger.com