The Story
Unreliability and bad quality scuppered the TR7, but there's so much to love about it.
What most people know about the Triumph TR7 of 1974-1981 is that it’s a metaphor for the whole British car industry at the time: an adventurous design scuppered by ropey early manufacturing quality that fatally damaged its reputation.
It wasn’t a complicated car, just a front-engined, rear-driven roadster with a moderately warm 2.0-litre four-pot engine, driving a live rear axle. Brakes were disc and drum. But its design, the work of a team led by oft-misrepresented Harris Mann, was very progressive: a wedge with an upwardly sweeping swage line, labelled “the shape of things to come”.
Why It Matters
It wasn’t a complicated car, just a front-engined, rear-driven roadster with a moderately warm 2.0-litre four-pot engine, driving a live rear axle.
CarMotion Daily’s Take
Industry watchers will be following the follow-through, not just the headline.
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