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***I'd rather ask for forgiveness after than seek permission before!!***
Jon Tilson wrote:Note the staggering prices for the Bmw 2002tii and the Alfa
Jonners
The sprint was an absolute bargain (at first) by comparison with the competition listed in the article. I doubt none of those cars were anywhere near as well appointed as the sprint. The beemer appeared to offer very marginally better performance, but was a staggering £1000 pounds more money! You'd have to be hard pressed to justify the extra expense of the beemer in comparison to the sprint in my opinion. Even the spartan Escort was slightly more expensive to buy when the sprint was first introduced!
It is amazing how keenly the Sprint was priced on launch...
Triumph could have easily charged a couple of hundred more and still had a bargain in the showroom!!!
With the extra cash generated from that they could have worked on developing a Sprint Turbo or such like to really put something super, SUPER, hot at the top of the tree...
Failing that they could have spent the extra money on sorting the Stag out...!!!
What have the UK motor industry launched since that was so blindingly class leading?
The SD1 Rover was a pretty big deal at launch but the build quality issues didn't take too long to knock the gloss off.
I liked the series 3 XJ6 too. The XJ40 was naff and they didn't get it right again until the X300, but it was still hardly class leading
against the various Beemers and Mercs. XJR was seriously cool though.
The R8 was ok but still too much a Honda....nobody preserves them now do they?
Rangies have been good and I like the MGF but I'm struggling to see even them as so far ahead of the competition.
When the Sprint came out you couldn't really make a case for buying anything else....some of us would say you still can't.
Jonners
Note from Admin: sadly Jon passed away in February 2018 but his humour and wealth of knowledge will be fondly remembered by all. RIP Jonners.