When the time came for British Leyland to replace the aging Triumph TR6, a machine that was both affordable and didn’t compete directly for sales with the BL-built MG MGB, MG Midget and Triumph Spitfire was needed. This car was the radically styled TR7, which first went on sale in the United States as a 1975
During the middle 1970s, British Leyland offered car shoppers in North America four different two-seat convertible sports cars: the Triumph TR6, the Triumph Spitfire, the MGB and the MG Midget (the convertible version of the Triumph TR7 didn’t go on sale here until the 1979 model year). Of those four, the cheapest was always the
Triumph was best-known in the United States for selling rakish sports cars, from the TR2s of the middle 1950s through the very last TR7s and TR8s of the early 1980s. Back in its home country, though, Triumph offered a much broader range of vehicles, including quasi-sensible family sedans such as the Herald. From 1961 through
Land Rover is known for high-end, off-road-capable luxury SUVs, but the company is moving even further up the premium brand food chain with an in-house bespoke service for the Range Rover Autobiography and SV trims. The Range Rover SV Bespoke program includes 391 interior material choices and 230 paint colors. Land Rover said it would
Henry Ford began building cars in Great Britain all the way back in 1911, when the first Model Ts came off the line in Manchester. By the 1930s, Ford Britain was assembling models designed just for the European market, leading to something of a parallel Blue Oval universe across the Atlantic. After World War II,
