The REAL Triumph production champion! [was Numbers of TR's built; Miatas]

[Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Barry Schwartz wrote:

> >Don't forget the winner and cham-peen in the Triumph production
> >number game, the TR-7, at about 111,500 cars, or nearly a third
> >of all TR- models
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> Hmmmmm, have to dispute the winner for triumph production.  I seem to
> recall a picture of I believe a 71 or 72 Spitfire coming off the production
> line with a banner reading 100,000th Spitfire made -

IMS, that was a Mk.3 Spitfire. Total Spitfire production was over 300,000. 

Of course, production of just the Herald 1200 saloon version was over
200,000. Total Herald and Vitesse (Sports 6) production was over half a
million. 

The winner and new champion!

--Andy

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p.s. Who else would point this out to the list? :-)