From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
>I thought both "Swift" and "Attacker" would have been nice names for a
>sports car ("Seafire" and "Viscount" somewhat less so). Glad to know
>that we'll see a Triumph Attacker one day soon...
"Swift" is a Suzuki trademark in the USA. Used to call the twin-cam model
the Swift GTI, but had to change it to Swift GT when VW USA got a little
huffy about it and loosed their "attacker" lawyers.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/ http://www.vtr2002.org
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