Originally Posted by
spclark
Nah, I was thinkin' TR m'self, maybe a 4.
(Was there ever a TR-5? Been too long for me to remember, but maybe there was & they never made it across The Pond? Yah, BAT says we got the TR-250 instead:
https://bringatrailer.com/2014/06/01...8-triumph-tr5/
- which I
do remember!! We missed enjoying almost 30 years of MINIS too, which I also remember and
deeply resent.)
Late to the party though, other'un got their's in first.
yes the rest of the world got a TR5 - essentially a TR4A with the fuel-injected 2.5/6 (~150 BHP) that ended up in the TR6. The US got the more feeble carbureted version in the equivalent TR250 (~105 BHP) and ultimately in the US TR6. The official line was that the injected engine fell afoul of US emissions regs - my sneaking suspicion was that, in the absence of a decent US service network to look after the rather finicky Lucas injection system, they didn't want to acquire a reputation for unreliability a la FIAT, so they opted for the more reliable, albeit less powerful, carbureted engine