New "Shape of Things To Come"?

[Mickey Richaud]

Hmmmm.....

https://www.newtriumph.co.uk/TRE.htm

Fun to speculate, isn't it?

 

[NickMorgan]

I am sure BMW will have a thing to two to say about this!

 

[tomshobby]

Nice looking and I do like the Mustang like air scoops next to the grill opening. Looks like a fun car.
Not sure where the Triumph heritage is though. And it looks like a sawzall is required to put the top down.

 

[aeronca65t]

I am sure BMW will have a thing to two to say about this!

Yes...here's part of what it says on their website:

The Company's aims for 2007 include defending the BMW infringement lawsuit.....

I like the "eco-viewpoint" of this company, but I'm not sure if it's "real" or just a marketing scam. We'll have to see...

 

[swift6]

I am sure BMW will have a thing to two to say about this!

Yes...here's part of what it says on their website:

The Company's aims for 2007 include defending the BMW infringement lawsuit.....

I like the "eco-viewpoint" of this company, but I'm not sure if it's "real" or just a marketing scam. We'll have to see...

A princip[al from that company was posting on a British TR site a few months ago, maybe still is but I haven't checked recently, and was trying build support from the British Triumph community to aid in their lawsuit defense aganinst BMW. I don't think he was seeing much success though.

 

[kc_doyle]

I would hope that they also do a roadster version.

 

[Twosheds]

Not sure where the Triumph heritage is though.

I found it. It has zero suspension travel. No room for up-and-down movement in the wheel wells.

 

[gsalt57tr3]

Why does it have to look so much like a Boxter?

 

[martx-5]

I'd rather see BMW use the Triumph name similar to what they did with the Mini. Take an older design and 'modernize' it. Roadsters from Bavaria, built in the UK, based upon TR traditions. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Then they can get rid of that hideous Z4. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/pukeface.gif

 

[StagByTriumph]

I'd rather see BMW use the Triumph name similar to what they did with the Mini. Take an older design and 'modernize' it. Roadsters from Bavaria, built in the UK, based upon TR traditions.

If BMW were savy, they would buy this company out, use them as the base for their new line of Hydrogen engined vehicles.

 

[NutmegCT]

My goodness - I thought the thread was about:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358/

(quite a film, by the way, for 1936, with views of the coming world war and eventual global dominance by a single government based on air power)

Tom

 

[swift6]

I thought he was more playing off of the Triumph Ad slogan for the TR7.

 

[toysrrus]

I feel She looks really Good but as kc_doyle says; They better make a Rdstr!!

Russ

 

[Andrew Mace]

My goodness - I thought the thread was about:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358/

(quite a film, by the way, for 1936, with views of the coming world war and eventual global dominance by a single government based on air power)

...and I was thinking of the movie, "Wild In The Streets" and the song "The Shape Of Things To Come," written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and performed by Max Frost and the Troopers! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

 

[Mickey Richaud]

I thought he was more playing off of the Triumph Ad slogan for the TR7.

Yep - that was the ad campaign for the "last" of the Triumphs, the TR7/8. As it turned out, the wedge pretty much did help set the stage for designs to come. It's been said many times before, but it's a shame that the TR's were never allowed to run their course.