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The Triumph Spitfire is a British sports car manufactured over five production iterations between 1962 and 1980. Styled for Standard - Triumph in 1957 by Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti , the Spitfire was introduced at the London Motor Show in 1962. [ 5 ]
The Standard SC engine is a cast-iron overhead valve straight-four engine designed and initially produced by Standard Triumph.Over its production life displacement grew from an initial size of just over 800 cc to nearly 1500 cc. Introduced in the Standard Eight in 1953, it would eventually be used in a wide range of vehicles from Standard, Triumph, and MG.
The Triumph 1500 is a small front-wheel drive car that was produced by Standard-Triumph from 1970 to 1973. In 1973 it was revised as the Triumph 1500TC becoming rear-wheel drive . Production ended in 1976, by which time it had been replaced by the Triumph Dolomite .
The next model up, replacing the Triumph 1500 TC, was the Dolomite 1500. The Dolomite 1500 offered identical specifications to the Dolomite 1300, apart from the seats, but with a 1,493 cc (91 cu in) engine and twin carburettors. Overdrive and automatic transmissions were offered as optional extras.
Triumph Spitfire 4 (Spitfire Mk I) 1147 cc inline 4 1962–1965 45,763 [14] Triumph Spitfire Mk II 1147 cc inline 4 1965–1967 37,409 [14] Triumph Spitfire Mk III 1296 cc inline 4 1967–1970 65,320 [14] Triumph Spitfire Mk IV 1296 cc inline 4 1970–1974 70,021 [14] Triumph Spitfire 1500 1493 cc inline 4 1974–1980 95,829 [14] Triumph GT6 ...
The styling of the vehicle was a success but the extra weight of the GT bodyshell resulted in extremely poor performance from the Spitfire's 1,147 cc (70 cu in) Standard SC engine, and plans for producing the Spitfire GT4 were shelved. Triumph GT6 Mk III rear. Michelotti's fastback design for the Spitfire GT4 prototype was adopted by the ...
The Triumph slant-four is an inline four-cylinder petrol car engine developed by the Triumph Motor Company. It first appeared in 1968 in the Saab 99. The first Triumph model to use the engine did not appear until 1972. With an original capacity of 1.7 L, displacement grew over time to 2.0 L. Triumph production ended in 1981.
The demise of the TR7 (and the Dolomite a year earlier) marked the end of the lineage of Triumph sports cars, with the marque continuing on the Triumph Acclaim until 1984. The Acclaim however was a licence-built Honda Ballade , built at the Cowley assembly plant and was pitched as a family saloon rather than as a sports car.