Published on 03 January 2022
Quite a few folk would not know that one Triumph in the Herald styling was Front-wheel-Drive. The 1300. The 1300 was Leyland's first front-wheel drive (FWD) design. Their major rival was BMC, who was at the time producing three FWD model ranges including the Mini and the best-selling Austin 1100 series; Triumph decided to adopt a different layout to BMC however, placing the engine above the gearbox in a longitudinal configuration (but not sharing the same oil) rather than BMC's transverse engine layout. This resulted in a tall profile for the engine/gearbox combination which limited styling options. That is one Triumph I would not be interested in, but might have been ideal for some folk.
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