Category: Triumph

UNUSUAL CARS MODEL GUIDE The Triumph 1300, 1300TC, 1500 and 1500TC form one of the marque’s most easily confused families. The 1300 introduced front-wheel drive in 1965, the 1300TC added twin-carburettor performance, the original 1500 retained front-wheel drive with a longer nose and tail, and the later 1500TC moved to rear-wheel drive using Toledo-derived engineering.…

UNUSUAL CARS MODEL GUIDE The Triumph Toledo was a compact rear-wheel-drive saloon produced from 1970 to 1976. It used the Michelotti-styled centre section of Triumph’s earlier front-wheel-drive 1300 but replaced that car’s complex transmission with a conventional longitudinal engine, gearbox and live rear axle. The result was simpler, lighter and cheaper—and it created the mechanical…

The post-war Triumph Roadster story: aluminium bodywork, a disappearing dickey seat and the 1800-to-2000 engineering change.

How a Cowley-built Honda Ballade derivative became the final Triumph car, plus model differences and ownership checks.