{"id":14039,"date":"2010-04-13T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14039"},"modified":"2023-01-24T08:41:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T08:41:36","slug":"triumph-tr7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/triumph-tr7\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumph TR7"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tTR70.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14040\" title=\"tTR70\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tTR70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tTR70.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tTR70-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tTR70-278x382.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tTR70-322x444.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Now, call us old fashioned, but could it be that the Triumph TR7 was the ugliest automotive creation of these islands? It&#8217;s not a particularly rare point of view \u2013 legend has it that when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leylandprincess.co.uk\/HarrisMann.htm\">Harris Mann<\/a> penned design was first shown at the British leyland design meeting way back in the depths of three-day-week, recession wracked Britain of the early 1970s, it was thought to be a spoof. His other design had been, of course, The truly pug-ugly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/car\/C08817\">Austin Princess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The potential for the car was great. Billed as &#8216;the shape of things to come&#8217; at the time, the angular wedge was driven by a more or less the same two litre engine that appeared in the much loved Leyland stalwart the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolomitesprint.com\/\">Dolomite Sprint<\/a>. What&#8217;s more an iconic wedge-haired Joanna Lumley drove one in popular seventies action series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q80Wozl08J0\">The New Avengers<\/a> (notice the synergy of &#8216;wedge&#8217;). Whatever you think of the design now, the TR7&#8217;s rakish modernism must have looked refreshing on the stolid streets of seventies Britain. It sold pretty well in the UK, and was a sales phenomenon in the US.<\/p>\n<p>History, though, hasn&#8217;t been kind to its looks.<\/p>\n<p>But in fact, we think you&#8217;ll agree that from the perspective of this angle achieved for an ad campaign, that the (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giovanni_Michelotti\">Michelotti<\/a> designed) convertible version actually looked kind of attractive from the raised three quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Or could it be that the true genius of the campaign in question is the placement of the lingerie-clad lady on its wing?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Jk1QaAH-r_o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Jk1QaAH-r_o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugly ogre or British beauty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,110],"tags":[953,1113,2090,2735],"class_list":["post-14039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-blog","tag-british","tag-british-cars","tag-michelotti","tag-triumph","manufacturers-triumph"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Triumph TR7: Ugly ogre or British beauty?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We&#039;ve found an ad that shows the TR7 is a much better light than it is known... 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