Actually, if you take into account the Saloon range of cars, Triumph
competed head on with BMW. My 2.5PI looks very much the part next to an
early 70's Beemer.
Bob Kramer
TR6, TR4A, TR4
Hill Country Triumph Club
Corinthians Vintage Auto Racing
rgk@flash.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Bowen, Patrick <pbowen@intellinetics.com>
To: 'Eric Kieboom' <ekieboom@xs4all.nl>; Bowen, Patrick
<pbowen@intellinetics.com>; <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Cc: <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:31 AM
Subject: RE: Is Triumph coming Back???
>
> Triumph never competed against BMW, as BMWs were considered to be in
another
> size and defineately price class. Its like comparing a Chevy to a Porshe.
> I also find it hard to believe that BMW would be afraid of any startup
> autogroup, especially based soley upon the name. - Remember they just
sold
> a ton of names off anyhow. Remember that MG and Austin-Healey were sold
> off, if any BMW would be more concerned about those - MG actually has
> production rolling.
>
> BMW must have some plan for Triumph.
>
> Patrick Bowen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Kieboom [mailto:ekieboom@xs4all.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:31 PM
> To: Bowen, Patrick; 'Triumphs@autox.team.net'
> Cc: 'Spitfires@autox.team.net'
> Subject: Re: Is Triumph coming Back???
>
>
> At 10:47 11-1-2001 -0500, Bowen, Patrick wrote:
> >
> >I was researching trademarks today for work and got curious, so I checked
> >Triumph. Well there were 237 trademarks with the Triumph name in them,
of
> >interest was the fact that on October 19th of 2000 BMW trademarked
Triumph,
> >I was not able to find an earlier trademark on the marque. So why the
> >sudden interest in Triumph, a marque that has not been used in 20 years?
I
> >know last year they refused to sell the Triumph and Riley name. HMMM,
Now
> I
> >am getting Curious.
>
> The name Triumph is connected by the public to open two-seaters and
> so-called 'sports saloons'. In the good old days, BMW and Triumph were
> almost direct competitors in the European sports saloon market. I suspect
> BMW wants the name Triumph only to prevent another company using the name
> Triumph for sports saloons. It would be bad for BMW's business if they
> turned out to be good cars.
>
> >Anybody have inside info.
>
> No inside info, this is just my theory.
>
> --
> Eric Kieboom - The Netherlands
> 1976 Spit 1500 - Original Java Green
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekieboom/spit/spit.html
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