@NCW250 I used to work in a BL/Austin/Rover dealership in the early eighties, and remember the Triumph Acclaim, it turned out to be very reliable and easy to drive with it's 1335cc twin carb engine, it was what buyers wanted, when we sold one, the salesman used to say "the next time we see that car, is when it comes in for a service" he was right.

The Acclaim was a big seller where I lived as people who wanted a British car, but wanted reliability, bought the Acclaim in large numbers. Also a five speed transmission and twin carb engine made driving relaxed.

I agree with you. The Honda-Rover tie-up produced some great cars.

Thanks to Honda, Leyland managed a few more years mate. Leyland's fortunes were down and the Honda Civic( badged as Triumph Acclaim in UK) was the answer to their prayers. Do some research.

The "stop-gap" Acclaim sold well 81-84 - and was a reliable motor for BL/Austin-rover... Tragically BL was sold out to BMW by Bae and the rest is history... Honda were the partners to take the group forward and the Triumph name should never have been binned in the process... If BMW bring Triumph back in the way MINI has - the World could be their oyster!

I'm owning one and is absolutely great. Great handle, great comfort and with the Honda DNA lovely engine...love her!!!

If (it became eventually) MGRover had stayed with Honda it likely would be still here today - rather than being swallowed up by the chinese...

BL were skint at the time. the Dolomite needed updating, the only option was to collaborate with another firm. considering that this car was nearly a re-badged Renault 9, I think the acclaim was fine the way it turned out. it was designed from the start for ease of manufacture, which meant that build quality and reliability was good. Rebadged Honda it may have been but it was still built in a BL factory by BL workers. more importantly it was a genuinely saleable profit making product.

I remember these cars back in the day, I was at first school my mates mum had one round about 1983 , great car during the day

Totally a Honda with a Triumph badge.

Though it didn't look it, the Acclaim was surprisingly fun to drive. Got mine for fifty quid and did 25000 trouble free miles with only an oil change for maintenance!

the transmission on the 1981-1984 Triumph Acclaim Transmission 5-speed manual 3-speed automatic

acctualy, the Acclaim is a more equipt upmarket Honda Ballade (Civic Sedan). :P

nice to see advert for the acclaim! i was lucky to have owned 3 of these cars, they were 100% reliable and never let me down i was 18 then! i have since had the rover 213 and the rover 416 (92K reg) which also had the honda engine fitted and did 147,000 miles with not a glich, now have a civic (98 Sreg) which is 100% reliable too!! (had 4 years) so the woody123 home guy should do some research and look at what are the 10 most reliable cars in surveys! usually honda, toyota, mazda, nissan, etc..

My headmaster had one in primary school!.... Was a lovely car!....

Nice tune from early 80's ;)

Defenetly the most reliable Triumph ever. The irony is that it would be the last as wel...

only about 50 of these left on the road. ive been to a car show today and one was in mint condition so some people like them.

If BL would have made more cars like this, and not the other drivel that came after, perhaps we'd still have a bouyant car industry....

Thank you for Your UPLauD.

The honda Ballade!

the engine on the 1981-1984 Triumph Acclaim Engine 1335 cc Straight-4

Great car had one in the eighties

A new Triumph Stag with the new Honda V6 A-VTEC engine, that would be the ultimat Triumph!

one of the best cars Triumph ever made... too bad it was a Honda!

Likely the most reliable Triumph badged car ever made???

If you can find one, the acclaim avon turbo is a real wolf in sheeps clothing!

This is so true! i believe honda wanted to buy rover but bae systems (then british aerospace) sold it to BMW this is when honda pulled out their input and shares, shame, after what honda did to help save the company,triumph acclaim, rover 213, rover 416 (concerto shape) and rover 600, all had honda engines and were superb cars!!(owned all but the 600) i can just see the new shape civic with rover badges on!! imagine, thats all we can do now, along with all the great longbridge factory workers.

brings back memories! my dad has owned many of these over the years but now likes to dabble in the modern world of cars...ah well!!

@NCW250 Yes, i agree with you there....they kept MINI, after discarding Rover, but back to the Acclaim, they were a good small saloon offering reliability which until then with BL was variable, the Dolomite was still a good car, quite solid and well finished, but getting old, the Acclaim was a rebadged Honda, but it was reliable, and comfortable, and sold very well due to that, when i worked in that garage, we sold a lot.....the right car at the right time.

A nice car but afflicted by the dreaded tinworm and rampant rust which spoiled it. Only minus points going for it is the cramped rear legroom which especially isn't good for tall people. Quite an effective heating and ventilation system fitted which was even more better if you specified the optional extra air-conditioning which made for a even cooler interior in the summer and a rapidly warmed interior in the winter plus effectively demisted windows and it also provided speedy heating.

gorgeous little car

The car that saw off the Triumph name for good. The name Triumph does not really fit on a small family saloon car range which has been actually designed by Honda. The car was good and reliable but suffered the rampant tinworm disease and nasty rust.

@woody123home is that why Honda is still around and sadly Triumph is no longer around. The Acclaim was a lifeline for Austin-Rover, the car in question was not 'a piece of shit' as you said. And I love Triumph cars.

Is the voiceover John Hurt ?

yes its in auto express or autocar. Triumph is coming back!! about time too.

I think if you had done some research you would have realised that the Acclaim was sold as the Honda Ballade, so they quite clearly did put there name on it. What car do you have?

CLASS ADVERT OF A CLASS CAR !

Acclaimjon is right -- long live the king!

@GRAHAM5020 my mother in law had an automatic one, she loved it until some twit smashed into it. You use to see them all over the place about 10 or more years ago, I do think they were underrated compared to other Triumphs. I think Austin Rover should have teamed up with Honda rather than BMW, who seem to have a knack of killing off rival makes. Borgsward is one the makes that springs to mind. The rest is history.

yep the acclaim was well quick!! i had 3!! thanks to the honda engine!! much better than a ford!!! u r lucky to have one look after the old gal! thanks to the acclaim i have owned honda engined motors for years and enjoyed total reliability!!

Triumph are part of BMW but there no plans for it to be brought back, Austin are set to be brought back though by Nanjing

Had more class in the British Leyland stable than a Morris Ital and Austin Ambassador.

@FrightfulAccountant I presume you mean the Stag V8 at that, but how was the engines obsolete that it was based around?

where can i buy one

So which car do you think is worst? Triumph Acclaim or Plymouth Acclaim?

haha, i remember there used to be a green one parked in front of our house when i was little, always thought it looked cool

does the synth come with the car?

A top match for "Only Fools and Horses champagne". Now explain that to me lol. "Totally equipped" with special things like a fifth gear, eh? In retrospect we may remember the last-ever Triumph for being rusty but the elephant on the back seat is the (then seen as) "Japanese" reliability which all cars have achieved by 2012!

One in Groovy MOT r's near me

I had 2, crashed the first one and blew up the engine on the second. Fun cars, but a total rot box built from cheap BL steel.

@AshtrayI I didn't know Elvis Presley built cars. What is a Sinder, does it catch on fire? You missed Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam.

An okay car I think.You can feel the passion in this advert.

are they?

This should have never been badged as a Triumph. Triumph was known for making sporty and sports cars. This is a good car (after all, it's based on Honda engineering) but calling it a Rover would have made more sense. January 4, 2018 5:20 pm

wow! a 5th gear! :O

always wanted one since the 80s, one of the cars that i thought stood out. and one of the cars ive always wanted, but is it any good?

It's a pity that BL did not try and base it's mainstream austin products on Honda designs during the late 70's and 80's, what BL needed were mass market cars that were resonable well built, reliable and modern instead we got the Metro, Meastro & Montego all under developed and based on old designs which were compounded by poor build quality and poor reliability issues throughout the 80's so much so that the austin brand becaome a joke word for crap cars

@MidlandNinja I take that Nanjing own the Austin name. I hope they don't bring Austin back. It was a good make in it's time. It would be like Peugeot bringing Hillman back to live. Which would be good, but we know it would be a Peugeot with the Hillman name on it, and that would be wrong.

same the coment of CarShionDs．．．

HOS!

I think triumph try to recclam relibality thrue honda but i like triumph tr6 but when i eat ckn i like to test like ckn not duck.

a british honda....

learn what /s means I was kidding! :D

yes indeed joh2 rover would still be here if they had stayed with honda! thing is BAE owned it then they sold it to BMW (even tho honda bidded for rover as they had a 20% stake in rover at the time) honda were less than pleased when BAE accepted BMW's bid (after all the acclaim,rover 213,216/416 and 600 series saved rover! all honda engine cars.) They pulled out of rover, BMW took all the 4x4 technolgy (land rover) and mini brand and dumped the rest for next to nowt!

I remember seeing some bopping about in the 1990s as a kid. And I called them Trumpets, because I couldn’t pronounce the name on the back lol. I still think it’s as hideously ugly now as I did back then

didnt see them when they were about not Britains greatest im afraid

bmw are bringing back triumph. a new tr6

workers striking every 2 days did not help the BL situation

At least Honda it's V6, that did power the all mighty NSX, doesn't break down every 50 miles. Not that sure about that 'lets melt 2 obsolete straight 4 in lines together and call it a V8' British Leyland Cars came up with. ;-) In fact, I even think Honda his Civic Type-R Engine, a small 4 cilinder, wound do a good job with the Stag. It wasn't a real big and heavy car...

hate acclaim. love triumph. love 70s synth music

A family sedan that was nothing special.

I had one of these - it was great at the time. Until my stupid glaswegian alcoholic bi-polar nutcase girlfriend jumped in it pissed and drove into 5 or 6 houses before wrapping it around a lamp-post. God - I loved that car. Needless to say I steer clear of scottish girls these days....

Acclaim = The car that killed-off the Triumph name forever! A new Stag with a Honda V6? Nah mate, a Stag isn't a Stag without a V8 in it! ;)

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Right, but the situation didn't improve much even after the turmoil ceased and Red Robbo got chucked out. BL was plagued with BAD management and BAD styling and engineering, first. It was only natural for manufacturing to follow suit and to be as BAD as it could be.

Doggidoo prob driven a Nova or something equally gay

You gotta admire the marketing department for making what was a crock of shit look like - well a crock of shit really. But got silly people to buy them. Arses

Its because you all spend too much time at the pub, get pissed and run around with signs all over town lol /s

Nice sharp video :) NOT!

Go away and do some research please.

This was'nt special at all it ws just a Honda it could'nt live up to the Dolomites reputation as a replacement

Horrible car! It was so ugly it's not surprising Triumph went down the pan. Think of all those gorgeous cars Triumph built before this .. TR6, GT6, Spitfire and they end up with this. Sad. Very Sad.