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[albitz]

Saw a Clarkson programme several years ago where he said that they used to transport the unpainted bodyshells from one plant to another on lorries,even when it was raining,sounds like they didnt stand much chance from day one.

[Parts_Monkey]

Doors fall off too if Top Gear is anything to go by.

[Peter H]

There are not enough pinches of salt in the world for top gear!

[Kevin Wood]

Lol.....my aunt had one of the last of them....a Vitesse auto (twin plenum).

A mate of mine was unfortunate enough to briefly own the 2.6 straight six one.

I remember being in it and smoke coming out of the trip computer.....which apparantly rarely worked anyway and was a swine to operate.

Another mate of mine had a Maestro Vanden Plas with a similar trip computer (the annoying talking one). It would blurt out totall cr@p at random. Fill it up with fuel and it would tell you "low fuel" at the next roundabout just to wind him up.

He had a special tool (actually a windwcreen de-icer) with which he used to beat the trip computer when it misbehaved. The irony is, when it developed a habit of telling him periodically that his brakes required service he totally ignored it, and after a few weeks his brakes failed.

That and the pointless digital dash. It was anybody's guess what speed you were doing. Just had to try and ignore it. I think it read 188 MPH for a while. Wishful thinking for a 1.6 litre S series <shudder>.

Kevin

[tmx]

i had a Renault Laguna RXE that could talk and it did similar things Rear doors werent shut and the fuel was critical even though the guage said a full tank!

i seen this on my clarkson dvd its called Head2Head

MDTM's right VBH should of dumped a C20LET in or atleast a C20XE would of given the rover a good run then