----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Gharazeddine" <Laura.G@141.com>
To: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>; <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Cc: <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: RE: Is Triumph coming Back???
> > As I recall, The beauty of the Spitfire was *not* a British design at
all.
> > Michelotti's styling is, as is to be expected, entirely Italian.
>
> I think of Michelotti's style as being modern and without boundries. If
one didn't know that the Herald, the Spitfire, the TR4, TR6 etc. were
designed by an Italian, would that be their first guess? (I omit the Italia
because it's so remeniscent of Italian sportscars of that period.)He had the
ability to take his vision and incorporate it with "British" style (as well
as with "Japanese" style or whoever he was designing for at the moment.)
I parked my spit next to a 911. From the front, they look like sisters.
> As for
> > Germans... The TR-6 body was designed by Karmann.
>
> The TR6 was designed by Michelotti-but built by Karmann. The company found
it cheaper to do it this way rather then to build it themselves.
Actually, Michelotti was busy with another commitment when the updated the
TR-5 (TR-250 in the US) so the design work was completed by Karmann.
>
> >
> > I myself would kill for a retro-designed Spit with 21st century
engineering,
> > even if the profits went to buy Helmut Kohl a new swimming pool.
>
> Not me. I love the idea, the essence of the Triumph Spitfire too much to
see it become another Z3! (Read, ugly, over-priced, male mid-life crisis
who can't afford something *bigger* "sportscar".) Just call me a purist!
As I said, BMW would be foolish to do anything but go for the Miata-MR2
formula of price and style.
By the way, I get the Freudian reference.
|