The ugly truth about the Triumph TR7

Many people think the Triumph TR7 was too slow to be fun, terribly ugly, badly built, or all three. But actually it served its real purpose rather well, in difficult circumstances - and I think is pretty handsome and good to drive, especially in the right spec. Here's the story.

Recommended further reading:
https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/trium...

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 What were they thinking?
01:49 Getting the Bullet
03:09 Thin end of the wedge
03:57 A striking look
06:17 Look, a strike
08:14 Driving: a Triumph
10:06 “A chassis in search of an engine”
12:47 End of the line


Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/the-in...
License code: FXFY5RDVTGMLID0F

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Image credits
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Triumph TR2:
Alf van Beem, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Triumph TR6:
JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Austin Healey:
Riley from Christchurch, New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

MGA, MGB, Triumph TR3:
Excerpts from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! © EVE Productions 1965, reproduced on fair use basis

VW-Porsche 914:
SG2012, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Triumph Bullet and ADO-21 prototypes:
Image reproduced from https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-a... - original source not cited

MGB interior, Triumph Dolomite Sprint interior:
The Car Spy, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Triumph TR7 Sprint rally car at Heritage Motor Centre
Mark Brown from Hampton, New Brunswick, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Triumph Dolomite Sprint:
Arpingstone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Triumph TR8:
dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Documentary footage, reproduced on a transformative fair use basis:
TV Eye, Thames Television, Feb 1980
Nationwide, BBC Television, March 1978
British Transport Films: