Jonmac,
Your comments are well founded, and if us LBC's owners wanted comfort, we
probably be looking at a Jag coupe, or something in that category.
I was really commententing on the design stage, so much of the car (I am 41, so
I vaguely remember them for sale new) was so cool in design, To me it blew
away the 240Z, and the open cockpit desgin, slab sides, blackout rear, and long
hood was soo british and James Bond European to a little kid. Hey I even liked
the Spit, the way the bonnet opened is still eyecatching today.
It's just when they were putting the interior together, Triumph did not even
make an attempt at changing things to American Spec, except what they had to.
And I also belive you as far as left and right drive drive right setups go.
Very few right hand drive sixes were built, but things like oil filter
placement, and how your feet slide into the cockpit were obviously designed
with mirror image in mind, instead of the "rest of the world" spec.
But like I said, even if the Poursche Boxter is rated as the best sportscar in
the world right now (5th gear did a great story). I still am not driving my TR6
down to the Poursche dealer to trade it in.
GH
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> Gene Hart wrote:
> Makes you wonder, when the TR6's (95,000) were bought originally, and they
> (the new owners) took it for a test drive, were all those people under 5' 7"
> and not very wide? I mean these cars were sold in the USA, not Japan.
>
> Gene, the majority of sales were made because the car itself was so
> different from other run-of-the-mill products available at the time. Sales
> were made largely on oddity value than comfort. It's also prudent to
> remember that cockpit space in the TR6 is a carryover from the TR4 because
> the body understructure is basically the same. Equally, when the TR4 first
> appeared, the majority of US dealers didn't want it because it was such a
> radical departure from the sidescreen TR's. Hence the TR3B for North America
> only for a while. But the TR4 was largely dimensioned on its predecessor and
> space in a sidescreener is best described as *intimate* and there's also a
> raft of difference in comfort levels between left and right hand steer
> TR6's. I probably drove more left than right versions and always found the
> driving position in the left hand variant to be almost agonising and this
> was largely due to the position of the pedals. In the right hand version,
> the driver's legs were far more straight and a lot more comfortable. The TR
> does not compare favourably in terms of cockpit comfort and general space
> with the MGB on a car size for size basis and IMHO there was more room (and
> comfort) in a Spitfire with either steering layout than any TR yet made.
> Finally, the European motor industry has come a long way in the last forty
> plus years in general ergonomics and its unreasonable to compare any TR with
> a more modern car in this regard.
>
> Jonmac
>
> "I have only once followed a rigid, cholesterol-free diet and it was the
> most ghastly afternoon I can ever remember" Denis Norden
>
> Release Date: 17/09/04
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