According to Triumph, the 1975 TR7 was supposed to be "the shape of things to come," but it wound up being the shape of a tanking company. But how? A radical departure from the old-fashioned but well-liked TR6 it replaced, the TR7 looks like a wedge of cheese, its pop-up headlight doors look a lot like toilet seat covers, and the character line on the body sides is just distracting.
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