To celebrate the British International Motor Show this year we picked our 100 best British cars. Check out our selection to help you choose your favourite home-grown motor.
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25 Triumph Stag (page 25 of 25)
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The Stag was the archetypal man-in-midlife-crisis car of the 1970s. A Michelotti design using the 2000 saloon's underpinnings, it was designed to take Triumph's own new fuel-injected 2.5-litre six, but British Leyland took over and the Stag was ambitiously repositioned as a Mercedes SL rival so it was given a carb-fuelled 3.0 V8. This proved hideously unreliable, prone to overheating and blowing head gaskets, and many Stags were converted to take the Buick-Rover V8 - the engine it should have had in the first place, but didn't get, due to internal Leyland politics. A bit of a disaster, really, but much loved during its 1970-1977 production run and beyond. It even appeared in the Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, which endeared it further to those in need of a testosterone boost.
