Score another vote for not resurrecting the Triumph name. I fell in love
with the Austin-Healey 3000 and the Triumph TR6 at first sight and forever.
The MGF leaves me cold. If they can't do any better than that, then forget it.
Now, if BMW were to make something like the new Lotus . . .
Jim Sudduth
'74 TR6 CF20076U
jims@autodesk.com
Berkeley, CA USA
At 08:33 PM 11/27/96 +0100, you wrote:
>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
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>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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