Thursday, October 27, 2011

Triumph

The Triumph Motor Company was the higher end British sports car back in the day. It all started in 1863 when the company started making motorcycles. In the begining the motors for the bikes came from other industries but later Triumph themselves started developing there own motors. Some Triumph Motorcycles were used in WWI. In 1918 Triumph Motorcycles were number one.

The first car Triumph introduced was the 10/20 in 1923. Then in 1953 triumph introduced there sporting line up starting with the TR-2. The TR line up lasted from 1953 to 1981. My favorite TR's are the TR-4, TR-250, TR-6 and the TR-8. I think the TR-4/TR-250 had the best body style. The TR-250 had a better engine (2498cc Straight 6) then the TR-4 (2138 inline 4). The biggest engine of them all was seen in the TR-7 and TR-8 which both had a V8 engine. The TR-8 was the last model of the series.

Sadly, the name Triumph disappeared. In 1984, when the Acclaim was replaced by the Rover 200, which was a rebadged version of Honda's next generation Civic/Ballade model. Nowadays Triumph is owned by BMW. It is sad to see how Triumph was not as reconized in America as MG was. Triumph was the higher end version of the MG.


Triumph were great rally cars back in the 60's and 70's as seen in this video: Triumph Rally Cars


This is a clip of a TR-7 in action: TR-7 V8


10/20
1800 Roadster
TR-2
TR-250
TR-6

TR-8

4 comments:

  1. This car is the ugliest, blandest piece of junk if I have ever seen one. What you need to be spending your time looking at is the 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo, 2012 Lamborghini Murceialago, and 2011 Audi R8 GT Quattro. Get on my level, boi, boi!

    -Slavic Movement

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  2. Triumph's actual cars are terribly engineered vehicles, on the other hand Triumph has made amazing motorcycles which have one numerous chamionships in motorbiking. Plus who ever designed the Triumphs must have been blind, there are ugly cars, slow and handle like a boat in corners.

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  3. Why do you keep wasting your time doing your blog on crappy cars? You should do it on better cars that actually have quality and dont break down every five seconds. I suggest that next week you a company like subaru or something good.

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  4. ANDREI I LOVE YOU! Anyways trevor nice blog, i like the amount of information that was posted dope shit breh.

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