Was the TR7 the last?

[PeterTR7V8]

Triumph was started by a German.


Never say die. At least not while you're still breathing.

[wedggie perrin]

Ah, Mr Bettmann.

[FI Spyder]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by jeffremj</i>

[quote]The MGF was the last mass produced british sports car.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Rover was owned by BMW when the MGF was first produced - it was technically a German sportscar! Do you consider the new Mini British?
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We allow the new Mini's in all our shows (for what might have been sake). We don't have any MGF's over here but if we did we'd have to allow them as well (or face an uprising from the MG crowd).[:D]


TR7 Spider - 1978 Spifire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra

[Wayne S]

Debatable point this, but the Jaguar XJS Convertible and Cabriolet remained in production and was of british origin through the late 70s, 80's and into the early 90s. During its production run the co. was of course bought by ford, but the XJS was an existing part of the line up.

The problem is that now in the global economy world we live in you simply cannot mass produce cars and be a one country company, various companies, design houses and components are manufactured in various places around the world and you would be surprised at how British some very foreign cars actually are - take Nissan for instance!

<b>2.0 Litre DHC Grinnall
Red 4.0 Litre V8 DHC Grinnall (with huuuuuge arches...!)</b>

[FI Spyder]

Yes, I've heard and read that BMW and Chrysler teamed up to develope the engine to go in the Mini and Chrysler Neon.



TR7 Spider - 1978 Spifire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra

[Mowog73]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Rover was owned by BMW when the MGF was first produced - it was technically a German sportscar! <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Rove may have been owned by BMW at the time of first production but it was developed while owned by British Aerospace.

Mark

<font size="1">1973 MGBGT Teal Blue
1976 TR7 Mimosa
1980 Spitfire 1500 Vermillion</font id="size1">

[jeffremj]

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Rove may have been owned by BMW at the time of first production but it was developed while owned by British Aerospace.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Without much help from BAe. I believe it was initially a 'skunkworks' design. Note that BMW also had a hand in the design before it was released. I was told that the windscreen surround was redesigned at BMW's behest.