It wasn't an accord, it was the exact copy of some model they run in Japan
and part of the deal was that they didn't market that thing in europe.
Sonnata or something (though that sounds rather hyundai-ish)was the name
imho.
Gernot
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> From: culture.virus[SMTP:blknwht@nwrain.com]
> Reply To: culture.virus
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 1998 2:56 AM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: re: Say it ain't so, Joe
>
>
> I could be wrong, but from all the pictures I've seen the Acclaim looks
> like an 80-82 Civic 4 dr rather than the Accord. General specs I've seen
> in
> Triumph World mention a 1300 cc engine. These were never installed in US
> spec Accords, even the 76-81 Accords started life as a 1600.
>
> At 05:29 PM 10/14/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >I believe that this was the Triumph Acclaim. It is suprisingly similar
> >[{:-)] to our Accord of the day.
> >
> >Shawn
> >-------------
> >Original Text
> >From: "Ken Bertschy" <kentop@dakotacom.net>, on 10/14/98 5:18 PM:
> >Whilst perusing one Michael Sedgwick's many car books, I came across
> this
> >quote from page 234 of his "Cars of the 50s and 60s":
> >
> >"...Soon, too, the Japanese would be drawn into the international
> picture,
> >with liasons between Chrysler and Mitsubishi, General Motors and Isuzu,
> and
> >Ford and Mazda. In 1981, a deal between British Leyland and Honda would
> >lead to a race of almost wholly Japanese Triumphs."
>
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