Start with what the Triumph TR4A is: a 2-door open two-seater with 2138 cc I4, built from 1965 to 1967, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Giovanni Michelotti.
How it came about
The Triumph TR4A is a sports car built by the Triumph Motor Company at its Coventry factory in the United Kingdom from 1965 to 1967. It is an evolution of the Giovanni Michelotti styled TR4, with the TR4's Hotchkiss drive replaced by an independent rear suspension, indicated by an "IRS" badge attached to the car's rear.
The hardware
The engine is 2138 cc I4. On the scales it comes to 1016 kg. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2235 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Triumph line-up the Triumph TR4A has a clear place: it replaced the Triumph TR4; it handed the line to the Triumph TR5/TR250; the factory was Coventry, United Kingdom. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Ford Bronco, the Ford Transit, the Nissan Silvia. Its Triumph stablemates include the Triumph SD2 and the Triumph Renown.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Triumph TR4A — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.