Often referred to as a resounding failure or the ugly duckling of Triumph's post-war era, the TR7 has become an increasingly popular and affordable classic cult car, half a century after its debut.
Hailed as Leyland's first genuinely new sports car in a decade and a half, the Triumph TR7 hit the Australian market in mid-1978. Its only real achievement was to make every backyard kit-car maker ...
Detroit stopped selling convertibles after the 1976 Cadillac Eldorado, not resuming drop-top production until the 1982 Chrysler K-Cars. British Leyland never gave up on American-market dropheads ...
The 1970s gave us disco, blockbuster summer movies, and a whole lot of wedge-shaped cars. Today's Nice Price or No Dice Triumph is one of those pointy-prowed cars but will its price drive a wedge ...
British sports cars have a well-deserved reputation for indestructible build quality and stolid reliability, and the Triumph TR7 is possibly the crown jewel of them all. Between Triumph's reputation ...
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Sometimes, perception and reality can be so far removed it’s untrue. There’s no shortage of classics that have a terrible reputation, which is undeserved for whatever reasons, but at the top of the ...
From the August 1977 issue of Car and Driver. It's time to cut through the purist ma­larkey smothering the Triumph TR7. Ac­cording to the sports-car-must-hurt tradi­tionalists, it's too conventional ...