SQUARE DEAL
Triumph’s cost-effective way of updating its traditional TR sports car line for the Seventies, the TR6 was essentially a neat facelift of the TR5 performed by German coachbuilder Karmann, which added a squared-off nose and tail in the style of Michelotti’s work on the firm’s saloon car range.
Introduced in January 1969, it wasn’t a revolutionary step change for the Triumph TR series, but neither was it out of line and in many ways it was a significant car. It was much the same as the TR5/250 models underneath, with a separate chassis and a front-mounted straight-six sending power to the rear wheels through a four-speed gearbox. The TR4A of course, had introduced independent rear suspension, and since the TR4 there had been rack and pinion steering. For the first time, though, there was now a front anti-roll bar.
The obvious change for the TR6, and the source of some distaste from enthusiasts of the earlier models, was its restyled nose and tail which gave it an altogether more butch appearance at
