The Leopard had enjoyed huge success as a bus in Scotland, usually with the Alexander Y-type body, but had lost some Scottish Bus Group orders to Seddon's Pennine 7, owing to Leyland's unwillingness to offer a Gardner engine in the Leopard.

Although the threat from the Dorchester was successfully warded off, there proved to be a limited market for the Gardner-engined Tiger outside of Scottish Bus Group.

The Scottish Bus Group bought batches of Tigers usually with Alexander TS-type bodywork and Gardner 6HLXCT engines.

[18] Premier Illawarra, Wollongong,[19] Rover Motors, Cessnock,[20] Surfside Buslines, Gold Coast[21] and Thompsons Bus Service, Brisbane[22] all built up large fleets of new and second hand Tigers.

It took two years to find a buyer, being purchased by Wests National Coaches, Nambour, Australia and bodied by Superior in June 1987.

[25] Leyland Bus was acquired in a management buyout led by Ian McKinnon in January 1987, and it looked like the Tiger would continue as before.

The penultimate major buyer of the Tiger, Shearings, switched to the B10M in 1991, and Volvo decided to cease production and close the factory at Farington.