What should Hornby produce next?

My only experience of the hornby APT is watching the stupid amounts of money second hand sets fetch on ebay. The only dapol pendolino i've seen running had an alarming wobble at one end. Probably just like the real thing knowing the bad reputation some of these wonderful Fiat products have!!
Its amazing that the APT and blue pullman both went the same way in model form as the real thing at around the same time.
If hornby redid the apt it'd have to go round the track for a couple of laps before remaining tilted and being dumped in a siding.
Interestingly I visited the NRm last year and saw the poor thing sat in exactly the same place outside and open to the elements as it was when i visited with the junior school 20 odd years ago just a bit greener in places.

The blue pullman is widely regarded as the precursor to the HST or inter city 125. The triang model of the 1960's and 70's is now somewhat unusual in the fact that the carriages are invariably worth more that the power and dummy cars despitetheir inaccuracies and their being only one or two types made. They were phased out on the rail network in the late60's and early 70's and none were preserved due to them being full of asbestos a fate which befell a lot of early dmu types as well.

The reason it may be popular could be the nostalgia of the real thing or the somewhta cack running of the old triang models, mine wqhich i sold recently howled like a banshee and sounded like it was derailing due to the wheel flanges running on the sleepers, not ot mention the sparks that it produced. A full train set is worth a mint as is the lord of the isles set which doesn't seem to have been greeted too enthusiastically by the looks of it.

If hornby is going to resurrect some of its more archaic types i suppose there is still hope in the future after all they remotored the hymek in the late 70's and surely the ringfield motor wouldn't take too much aggro to fit.

See it seems to be a large number of people on here agree then. Pullman goood , Pendolino Baad

I wonder if hornby will look at reintroducing the class 87's with mk3's while the pendolino is being developed given their love of all things virgin. Much like virgin are looking at while the real pendolino's go in for yet more improvements, this time sanding equipment upgrade to help with adhesion problems and wheelflats! I wonder if the mainland european variants are as problematic as these seem to have been.

I wonder if they'll bother with the lima n gauge range all 30 odd items of it

I think the best thing for n gauge at the moment is if dapol and farish stop playing silly buggers and competing for the same buyers with duplicate items like the class 66. There is more than enough in the british outline to go for without pointless duplication however good the products may both be. There will be a winner and loser and sadly i can see which will be which. I've never quite figured dapol out as a manufacturer, they could've sewn up the pendolino market long before the new hornby model was announced but didn't bother as they seem happy to release very limited editions at very infrequent periods. Then they go completely off track and seemingly dive headlong into another scale altogether admittedly there is less competition in n scale but its a risky venture in my opinion as there are also fewer modellers(he says not wishing to offend any n scalers who may read this).

As i say the best thing is to sort it out before hornby decide to take the plunge and possibly outstrip the both of them.