Homage to record car
Triumph is still a manufacturer of motorcycles, but Triumph Motor Company, which screwed together cars for years, hasn’t done so since 1984. Triumph Motor Company is back, especially temporarily. This is the Triumph TR25 Concept, an electric roadster that BMW has loved.
Since the disappearance of the far-Triumph-the Honda Ballade in 1984 – the Triumph Acclaim – Triumph cars are no longer produced or assembled. Real Triumph production actually stopped in 1981 when the last TR7s were built. Triumph Motor Company is no more, but Triumph Motorcycles is still very active. Yet we now read brand name Triumph back on a car. What’s up with that? The Triumph TR25 Concept presented at the Goodwood Festival of Speed ​​was created by design agency Makkina. Still – if you’re open-minded – it really is a Triumph to some extent, despite being fully electric.
The record TR2 to which the TR25 Concept nods.
When BMW Group took over Rover Group in 1994, it also acquired the trademark rights of Triumph Motor Company. Design house Mikkala has officially requested approval from the German concern for this Triumph TR25 Concept and that makes the TR25 Concept a bit real. The Triumph TR25 Concept is a tribute to the ‘Jabbeke’ Triumph TR2, a car that set a speed record (201 km/h) in May 1953 for production cars with an engine with a displacement of less than two liters (photo 24 ). So this year marks 70 years since the record was set and 100 years since Triumph’s first car hit the road. Time to come up with a modern incarnation of the record TR2, argues design house Makkina.
Like the record TR2 – actually a prototype – the Triumph TR25 Concept is also painted in a light blue-green color. The TR25 Concept peers into the world just as innocently as the original and is a single-seater with the passenger compartment covered. Did BMW have anything else to do with it? Doubtless. Under the body of the TR25 we find the platform and technology of the BMW i3S, the strongest variant of the i3 that was delivered in recent years. The 4.03 meter long Triumph TR25 Concept logically has the same wheelbase as the i3S, stands on 21-inch light metal and, like the BMW, therefore has a 184 hp electric motor on the rear axle. The TR25 Concept does benefit from slightly larger brakes.
The body of the TR25 Concept is made of carbon donkey, which means that the car weight is only 1,095 kilograms (i3S: 1,290 kilograms). The Triumph TR25 Concept sprints from standstill to 100 km/h in 5.2 seconds and has a top speed of 185 km/h. That makes it faster than the BMW i3S, which takes 6.9 seconds for the o-100 sprint and gets stuck at a speed of 160 km/h. The TR25 Concept squeezes a range of 306 kilometers (BMW i3S: 280-285 kilometers) from its 42.2 kWh battery, which also comes from the i3S.
Production plans are (unfortunately) not discussed.
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