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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. However, the Acclaim 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.
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 ]
Triumph TR7: 1998 cc inline 4 1975–1981 Triumph TR8: 3528 cc V8 1978–1981 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 TR8. The Triumph TR8 is a sports car built by the British Triumph Motor Company from 1978 until 1981. It is an eight-cylinder version of the "wedge-shaped" Triumph TR7 which was designed by Harris Mann and manufactured by British Leyland (BL), through its Jaguar/Rover/Triumph (JRT) division. The majority of TR8s were sold in the United ...
The new removable hardtop for the TR6 was designed in-house by Triumph, and was available as an option. [5] Construction of the TR6 was traditional body-on-frame with four-wheel independent suspension, front disc brakes and rear drum brakes. All TR6s were powered by Triumph's 2.5-litre straight-6 engine. The TR6 featured a four-speed manual ...
To overcome the lack of performance inherent in the heavier body style the Spitfire's 4-cylinder engine was replaced with the more powerful 2.0 L (1,996 cc) Triumph inline 6 originally derived from the SC and then in use in the Triumph Vitesse (which shared a similar chassis with the Spitfire and Triumph Herald). The car was further developed ...
Triumph TR2, the first production car in the TR series. The Triumph TR range of cars was built between 1953 and 1981 by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom. Changes from the TR2 to the TR6 were mostly evolutionary, with a change from a live axle to independent rear suspension in 1965 and a change from a four-cylinder engine to a six ...
The Triumph Bonneville T120 is a motorcycle originally made by Triumph Engineering from 1959 to 1975. It was the first model of the Bonneville series, which was continued by Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. The T120 was discontinued in favour of the larger 750 cc T140 in the early 1970s. [4]