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Unfortunately, Italian skill with the paint box was not enough to exact any respect from the neolithic types who handled the Tuareg during its trip from Northern Italy to Northern England, and it arrived at the Manchester base of importers [[Aprilia]] UK with the extensive (and expensive) bodywork bashed to bits. Replacing it was no problem, except that the only spare plastic was in last year's | Unfortunately, Italian skill with the paint box was not enough to exact any respect from the neolithic types who handled the Tuareg during its trip from Northern Italy to Northern England, and it arrived at the Manchester base of importers [[Aprilia]] UK with the extensive (and expensive) bodywork bashed to bits. Replacing it was no problem, except that the only spare plastic was in last year's colours. | ||
So it was that we didn't really get a new bike to test at all: last year's bike, last year's paint and a nagging suspicion that we were being fobbed off with a machine that, although deemed to be no longer up to scratch for the rest of Europe, was an easy option for the UK market compared to the hassle of homologating the new model. Add to this a gremlin attack on the starter solenoid and a broken connection in the wiring loom as a result of the frequent removal of the tank and it would have been easy to write the Tuareg off as another example of Latin flair for design let down by poor quality control. | So it was that we didn't really get a new bike to test at all: last year's bike, last year's paint and a nagging suspicion that we were being fobbed off with a machine that, although deemed to be no longer up to scratch for the rest of Europe, was an easy option for the UK market compared to the hassle of homologating the new model. Add to this a gremlin attack on the starter solenoid and a broken connection in the wiring loom as a result of the frequent removal of the tank and it would have been easy to write the Tuareg off as another example of Latin flair for design let down by poor quality control. |