The economics facing the postwar car industry in the U.K. were complex and challenging. The country was nearly bankrupt, and it had to sell its manufactured products abroad in an “export or die” model ...

The Triumph Spitfire was launched in 1962, and aimed to compete with the Austin-Healey Sprite, but in the same year another rival also surfaced – the MGB. Thanks to its separate-chassis construction, ...

For an auto maker that built such a wide range of cars in such volumes, Triumph always had an individual streak. In many ways, of course, its products mirrored those of MG, its great British rival.