<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><span>that is surly some kind of joke?</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>they type of joke you would find on sniff petrol site.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312999"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_313000">they cant really be thinking that is any any way nice.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312998"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_313005"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_313004"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312997"><span><br></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312996">flabbergasted</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312996"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_313032"></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312996">Frank<br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312942" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312941"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312940"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312939"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312995"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_313033"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John Macartney <john.macartney@ukpips.org.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> triumphs@autox.team.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 15, 2016 7:15 AM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_313035"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_313034">Subject:</span></b> [TR] A so-called 'Design Study'?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476240213460_312943"><br>I'm not much good at attaching pictures to files so maybe this won't go<br>through?<br>As we all know, BMW now owns both the Riley and Triumph names and the<br>manufacturing rights. It also owns what was once known in the UK as Rolls<br>Royce (Car Division) and since it passed into BMW ownership, the company has<br>been producing a so-called Rolls Royce car which has about as much visual<br>appeal as any of the WW2 concrete German blockhouses still found throughout<br>the north coast of France as part of Adolf Hitler's much acclaimed 'Atlantic<br>Wall'.<br>This latest design study (pic attached - hopefully) to emerge from the Land<br>of the Hun (or even from the UK based rolls Royce factory) defies belief<br>that the former 'grace' of line that was (nearly always) the hallmark of<br>this erstwhile British company, has clearly gone for ever. <br>If BMW in its infinite wisdom ever decides to resurrect either/and/or the<br>Riley and Triumph names and launches car that are so tasteless and abhorrent<br>as what it's played around with for Rolls Royce, we can all be certain that<br>the once noble names of Riley, Rolls Royce and Triumph will have been<br>prostituted for ever. But in my view there's nothing coming out of Audi,<br>Benz, BMW or VW that called ever be called visually pleasing and that's why<br>I've made it clear that when I die, I'd be far happier to be taken to church<br>in a wheelbarrow or pulled on a horse drawn farm cart than ever be put in a<br>hearse that has German origins. <br><br>Jonmac<br><br><br>---<br>This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.<br><a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus" target="_blank">https://www.avast.com/antivirus</a><br><br><br>** <a ymailto="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a> **<br><br>Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/archive</a><br>Forums: <a href="http://www.team.net/forums" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/forums</a><br>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/yellowtr3@yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/yellowtr3@yahoo.com</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>