The Triumph TR6 is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 six-cylinder

Straight-6

The straight-six engine or inline-six engine is a six-cylinder internal combustion engine with all six cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase...

 sports car

Sports car

A sports car is a small, usually two seat, two door automobile designed for high speed driving and maneuverability....

 and the best-seller of the TR range

Triumph TR

The Triumph TR range of cars were built between 1953 and 1981 by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom.* Triumph TR2* Triumph TR3* Triumph TR3A* Triumph TR4* Triumph TR4A* Triumph TR5* Triumph TR250* Triumph TR6* Triumph TR7* Triumph TR8...

 built by Triumph

Triumph Motor Company

The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company. The Triumph marque is owned currently by BMW. The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann of Nuremberg initiated S. Bettmann & Co and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling them with his own...

 when production ended in July 1976. This record was then surpassed by the TR7

Triumph TR7

The Triumph TR7 is a sports car manufactured from September 1974 to October 1981 by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom. It was initially produced at the Speke, Liverpool factory, moving to Canley, Coventry in 1978 and then finally to the Rover plant in Solihull in 1980...

. Of the 94,619 TR6s produced, 86,249 were exported; only 8,370 were sold in the UK.

The bodywork closely resembled that of the previous model, the Triumph TR5

Triumph TR5

The Triumph TR5 was built for a 13 month period between August 1967 and September 1968 by the Triumph Motor Company in Coventry, England....

, but the front and back ends were squared off, reportedly based on a consultancy contract involving Karmann

Karmann

Wilhelm Karmann GmbH, commonly known simply as Karmann, in Osnabrück, Germany was until 2009 the largest independent motor vehicle manufacturing company in Germany...

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All TR6 sports cars featured inline six-cylinder engines.