Triumph Spitfire dot com has a trivia page, with such
items as:
Spitfire's "code name" when it was being built and
tested for pre-production was "BOMB". (though,
contrary to some DPO's, it wasn't due to an inherent
tendancy to blow up.)
The shortest turn radius of any 4-wheeled Production
vehicle title has been given to the Spitfire by
several magazines. Including Collectible Automobile
and Classic Cars.
http://www.triumphspitfire.com/Trivia.html
I don't see it on the list, but a company called AMD
designs and manufactures computer processor chips.
Regularly they code name their chips in the prototype
stages after cars ("Mustang", "Corvette" and
"Thunderbird" to name a few.) I believe it was in 1999
they announced the creation of a scaled down and
cheaper version of the "Thunderbird" called the
"Spitfire" named so because of the fact that it was
designed to be "fast yet inexpensive".
I also don't see the reference to the fact that in the
late 80's Mazda used a mocked-up body of a Triumph
Spitfire shell over the Miata to disguise it during
road test trials (much in the same way as prototypes
are painted strangely or given odd shaped body
panels). This is according to Collectible Automobile
magazine, Dec. '89.
-Terry
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