Topic: Solved: gte4289_23 DeLorean Triumph TR8 proposal by Ed Peppall

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For a point: What is this, who designed it and why?

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Experts?

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Triumph DeLorean
The clever part was to expand DeLorean’s range by adding a second model which would increase revenue for the company and its dealers. The chance to do just that came when BL Cars abruptly ended production of the Triumph TR7 and TR8 in the summer of 1981. ‘We thought we could save DeLorean by putting the two cars together. The idea was to perform a low-cost restyle of the sports car,’ says Wills.
In the meantime, the TR7/8 element was known as the i-car, decades before Apple’s iPhone.
freelance designer Ed Peppall, a former colleague of Wills from his Reliant days, produced some promising sketches of a crease-less TR8 convertible sporting new bumpers and air intakes.

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Triumph DeLorean
The clever part was to expand DeLorean’s range by adding a second model which would increase revenue for the company and its dealers. The chance to do just that came when BL Cars abruptly ended production of the Triumph TR7 and TR8 in the summer of 1981. ‘We thought we could save DeLorean by putting the two cars together. The idea was to perform a low-cost restyle of the sports car,’ says Wills.
In the meantime, the TR7/8 element was known as the i-car, decades before Apple’s iPhone.
freelance designer Ed Peppall, a former colleague of Wills from his Reliant days, produced some promising sketches of a crease-less TR8 convertible sporting new bumpers and air intakes.

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