On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Odd Hedberg wrote:
> Andrew Mace wrote:
> >
> > 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...
Right: Dolomites, 2000 and 2.5, not to mention the, er, Herald and
Vitesse range. If the name comes back on a saloon car, I'd hope for
rather more than, say, the Triumph Acclaim-type of "revival" of the marque.
--Andy
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