Andrew Mace wrote:
>
> As for "new" Triumphs, you're right. We'd best not expect too much of
> anything new from BMW/Rover with the Triumph name. It might be great,
> practical and fun (like a M**t*), and it might even captivate a whole
> new generation of sports car fans (like a M**t*), but it won't be what
> we remember, any more than the 1997 Ford Thunderbird is "like" the
> original 1955.
>
> I don't always agree with Graham Robson, but he might be right in
> noting that it could be for the best that the name is left to history.
> My $.02....
> --Andy
Andy et al.
I must say that I second that opinion, and we must always remember that
the majority of the postwar Triumph production was family saloon cars!
Not the sportscars that some of us (not You Andy!) tend to think being
the only proper Triumphs. So the eventual reviving of the Triumph marque
might very well end up on something like a Golf or Jetta with some extra
walnut on the dashboard, since that was what Triumph largely was, in a
large part of the sixties and seventies...
Just my tuppence,
Odd
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