On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> '76 TR6
> bought new in '76
> from a dealer who now sells Subarus
Well there's a turn up for the books....Coventry Football team are now
sponsored by Scooby-Doo, theres painfull irony for you.....!
Johnny '70 Viterald 15/70 estate
>
> "Stinocher, Bryan D." wrote:
> >
> > I have a question for the list.
> >
> > I have a TR250. From what I have learned, Triumph only made roughly 8600 of
> > them in a one year period. In looking at the TR6, it looks like they only
> > made 10-15K per year. I'm not sure of the other models, but my question is
> > this: I have worked in automotive for over 10 years, with Honda for 5.5 of
> > those. Typical yearly production numbers are 250--400K, depending on model
> > of Honda. Same for Toyota, except for niche cars, of course. But even those
> > run at roughly 3--9K/month. If Triumph was only making that many cars a year
> > (and North America was supposedly their largest market, if I remember
> > correctly), how could they do it? Given the investment, wages, materials,
> > etc., how did they do it? Or were they running other things besides the TRs
> > at the same time?
> >
> > Just curious. Obviously they stayed afloat for a long time, but just
> > professional curiousity.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Bryan
> > bdstinocher@sewsus.com
> > 502-782-7397 xt. 2284
> > 68 TR 250 CD 5853 L
>
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