where can i buy one

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.

One in Groovy MOT r's near me

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

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.

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.

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

A family sedan that was nothing special.

Nice sharp video :) NOT!

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

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

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

Thank you for Your UPLauD.

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

HOS!

gorgeous little car

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

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.

Totally a Honda with a Triumph badge.

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.

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.

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?

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

same the coment of CarShionDs．．．

learn what /s means I was kidding! :D

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

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.

The honda Ballade!

workers striking every 2 days did not help the BL situation

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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!

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

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

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

@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.

@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.

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

@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.

Acclaimjon is right -- long live the king!

@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.

Is the voiceover John Hurt ?

@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.

Great car had one in the eighties

Nice tune from early 80's ;)

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

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....

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

does the synth come with the car?

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