[TR] FW: Emailing: triumph

[Mike Denman]

I woke up this morning to find that one of my car makes, Marcos, is going 
bankrupt (again) and another of my car makes is being re-born (Triumph). The 
news doesn't affect either car that I own since the Marcos factory doesn't 
stock or sell parts for my 1966 Marcos and the new Triumph factory won't 
stock or sell parts for my 1962 TR3. I also have a 1961 VW beetle and when 
the new retro VW beetle came out there was a lot of speculation in the VW 
clubs how this would raise the awareness and prices for the original 
beetle... didn't happen. The new Triumph is interesting but the revival of 
the make is only important if you plan on buying one of the new cars 
(assuming that they export the model to the USA... the new Marcos never 
reached that stage and I couldn't afford it even if it was exported). The 
Triumph logo in the press release is not only a Triumph Motorcycle logo but 
it appears that the picture of the logo is of a Triumph motorcycle.... note 
that the body work has a compound curve like a motorcycle tank and that the 
body work is black while the car (prototype) is red.  Looking closely at the 
red car you can read triumph across the front edge of the bonnet in what 
looks like the original chrome Triumph type logo/letters that we all are 
familiar with from the earlier cars. I suspect an advertising person came up 
with the Triumph Motorcycle logo picture from a "stock photo service" and 
didn't realize that the picture wasn't of the correct logo. The car pictured 
doesn't make me want to run out and buy one but if BMW builds the car it 
will be worth looking at if it ever arrives at the local BMW dealer.
Mike Denman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Suhring" <suhringtr36 at comcast.net>
To: "Triumph Mail List" <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:40 AM
Subject: [TR] FW: Emailing: triumph


> Another speculation to stir discussion.
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> Scott Suhring
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> Mechanicsburg, PA
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> '70 TR6
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> '59 TR3
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> From: Jay Snavely [mailto:jays at paonline.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:10 AM
> To: John Krause; Scott Suhring; Joe Laurito; Bill Shover
> Subject: Emailing: triumph
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> Shortcut to:
> http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/210892/triumph.html
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> This is interesting, but it is the Triumph motorcycle logo???
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