1983 Triumph Acclaim Goes For a Drive
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- The Triumph Acclaim was the first major joint project between a British and Japanese car maker, and the last car launched under the Triumph brand.
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18:35 'This vehicle still retains some original rust as supplied by British Leyland from the factory' Great rear window sticker :D An old friend of mine worked on the TR6 production line at Triumph in the 70's. I remember him telling me that the cars were rusting before they'd even left the factory
My dad had a top of the line Triumph Acclaim CD with the optional fit air conditioning and it made for a cooler interior in the summer and a much warmer interior with quick demisting in the winter and at mid level heat settings gave a comfortable 'cool face warm feet' environment but if you went any warmer up the scale on the temperature slider then the air became warm and stuffy at the face level vents as well as the footwells.
It was a stratified Japanese style heater linked heating / ventilation system.
I've rarely clicked on a video so fast! Do love the Acclaim (admittedly because it is a Honda underneath). I'm surprised how similar that engine sounds to my '09 Jazz; similar capacity, too. Great to see Honda's reputation for sweet manual shift action was there all the way back in the early '80s!
Shame Honda and rover could work it out. I remember this car.
@james taylor my mate had little honda civic with hondamatic. With power steering and automatic transmission. Back in 1990 .
@@stokeontrentchannel3593 That Honda was a beautiful car to drive, so amazingly smooth and refined for the time.
Proof that Brits can screw together a decent durable car, even way back in the early Eighties. Those British/Japanese collaborations rarely failed to produce a nice car, I like the Acclaim a lot.👍
@@NSX921 A little bit of research might help you get your facts right, since you obviously haven't done any. There's plenty of car manufacturers around the world that have required mergers, bailouts or complete buyouts to try and survive. Designing a car, testing, getting factories set up with tooling, sorting out supply chains and actually getting it to market is a lengthy and very expensive process. Misreading the market, supply problems, unexpected delays, defects... all things that can cost tens of millions to rectify. Or bankrupt a company.
Retro restore is bringing a metallic gold one of these back to its glory. He has managed to get parts really easily well worth a look.
Triumph was my favourite brand from BL and I remember the Acclaim from when I was a child. Although I liked the Acclaim, I always felt it was misplaced within the Triumph line up, as Triumph was a sporting brand, (Dolomite Sprint, TR7, Stag). It would have fitted in more with the Austin, Morris brand. Great video.
Probably it would have, the twin carb was a nod in that direction
My dad had one of those!
He got it as a company car in about 1982 and his actually did have air con. You can imagine how amazingly posh we all thought that was back then.
Brilliant to see one again in the wild. The 5 speed gearbox on a small family car must have felt so exciting back in 1981. I think I have a chunky Corgi model of an Acclaim somewhere too.
My first car was an1982 Acclaim CD in pensioner gold with beige interior, I loved that car had it for 5 years fitted it with twin Webber’s and the wheels from a Honda Prelude looked great and went at a fair old pelt too!
Independent suspension all round is impressive, yet even now so many cars don't have that. Very nice motor indeed, and the Avon Turbo model sounds amazing.
Nice to see this little gem being reviewed! The start of a fabulous relationship between Honda and Rover. A real shame that they didn't use the Jazz / City as the basis of a small Rover to replace the Metro. And that they couldn't offer a slightly larger hatch version of this car (e.g. Honda Quintet). If they had gone even further with their collaboration, and Rover didn't bother trying to make their own engines (when Honda's off the shelf units were so much better and more reliable), I believe Rover would still be here today and Honda would also have a far stronger foothold in Europe and the UK. If only....
What a handsome car, very classy. I remember a girl in my 6th Form had a metallic gold A-reg Acclaim ‘Triomatic’ - I always remembered being very intrigued by it. Great video Matt!
Really enjoyed that, thank you. Any fans of great literature may like to know that the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, being a man of simple taste, love his Honda Accord. (He referred to it in one of his later books).
Thanks for more fond memories Matt. We had these in the day on our car hire fleet.
Had autos for visiting Americans etc. One lasted a few days before said American wrote it off when leaving Heathrow airport !
Another funny moment was boss fitting snow chains to the rear wheels only lol.
haha at least that one didn't crash in the snow if it couldn't move!
@@RussEdgar445y7tlfj worked for a rental company in late 90's. An American woman took out a Ford Scorpio 2.9 this. She had it 2 days, drove it down a jetty into Loch Lomond. We gave her another one. 2 days later it was in Loch Ness. We gave her another one, she crashed it at a roundabout. She didn't get another car. ..
Welcome back Matt! I love your enthusiasm in these road test videos. The Acclaim's styling reminds me of the Honda Quintet large hatchback, but with a boot. A road test on a 213S SD3 , or even a 1986 pop-up headlight Integra, would be great if you can find any left.
Matt, I can tell you truly love this little car, because this is your best video by quite a distance.
Your enthusiasm is infectious! :)
I think it looks really nice, still fresh! Those seats are really well padded, that's why there is limited room room in the back.
I bought a new Y reg HL . Most reliable car I ever owned . The Chevette it replaced handled a lot better though.It just didn’t like to be hustled down a road .I remember a lot of understeer ! But I liked it and good family transport. But holidays meant a roof rack and that destroyed what performance it had. I can remember a holiday to Wales and going across the M62 into a headwind and the car juddering like crazy. I wondered what the hell was wrong and it was only when I shifted down to fourth gear I realised it couldn’t pull fifth into the wind ! Excellent review as always . Your channel just gets better and better
I love the Acclaim. Unsurprisingly BL’s best car for reliability. So modern compared with other BL cars of the time. And it worked.
My first car in 1985 was an A reg Triumph Acclaim HLS in Biege. Loved it. My HLS didn’t have electric windows but I seem to remember metal internal door handles, unlike the CD model in the video??? It did break down once when the black box electronics for the ignition system failed. Later the external rubber head light trim / seals used to break free and blow about in the wind! The final straw was when the car started to resonate at exactly 70mph. Great memories of those times in what was my favourite car for many years. Thanks very much for the video and reviving those memories.
My mate's parents bought him the HLS model Acclaim in 1987 as he passed his test. I remember him not being overly excited initially as they were thought of as a grandad car at the time. He soon changed his mind when he realised that they would blow away the equivalent engine sized Escorts, Astras etc and even the bigger engined Capris, Cortinas and Sierras. It also never once from memory had a single issue mechanically, unlike the aforementioned motors.
I also had one not long after passing my test and my thoughts were about the same, first thought, what a boring car, a few months later, What a brilliant car and never had a problem with it.
I bought one of these as my first car in 1990, had it 2 years and thrashed it everywhere, like you say everyone at the time bought escorts and astras, working in the industry and knowing a fair bit about cars these were by far the better choice.
only problem I had was the clutch, instead of paying for a new one I traded it in for a rover 213.
haha this is my memories of Triumph Acclaims which had a bit of a following amongst my pals. Really revvy and punchy engine that was bulletproof.
I had the same experience as an 18 year old owning a 14 year old one of these as my first car. My friends couldn't believe how nippy it was off the lights and how revvy the engine was (I think 7000 RPM was the redline).
My dad wore the same rose tinted spectacles when he owned one of these. He would still comment about the Acclaims acceleration, despite having owned cars which were........on planet Earth.........WAY quicker and WAY faster!.
He would always talk up memories of traffic light grand prix's against BMW's and Fords, never for a moment thinking that, perhaps they weren't even trying to beat him!.
The same was always said about Lada's, and how fast they were, because everybody who bought them seemed to be out to prove a point by driving with their foot plastered to the floor!.
Every time we were on the motorway in the 80's, they would always be some dude in a 1.3 Lada sailing by us at 90 mph lulling us to believe that they were fast. Never for a moment did we think the dudes who owned those cars were thrashing them to bits, oh no........they wouldn't do that would they? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same goes for the Acclaim, fair enough it was nippy and I did manage to hold a 1.6L Maestro off from 0-60 on the M1 (clearing road works), but it was no XR3i or RS Turbo, like my dad used to make it out to be.
I did watch a YT video last night of a Triumph Acclaim with a B16 civic engine in........now that on the other hand........that was very quick!. Around 3 seconds from 0-60 as it was boosted to 370bhp. 370bhp in a car that weighs only 750kg = proper quick!
Owned for a short while both the Triumph Acclaim and the Rover 213s both good cars with reliable Japanese engines in british suits.
Good video, thank you.
I remember a close friend's father buying an Acclaim (CD I think) brand new in 1984 (when I was only 8 years old). It was silver, manual, and I loved it. My own father had a 1976 Rover P6 3500 S at the time, but the only thing I found interesting about that back then, was that it was almost exactly the same age as myself.
Great video, thanks Matt. The acclaim was a decent car in its day, pity about them rusting away though, the top speed was 96mph and 0-60 in 12.5 secs, so was quite nippy for its time.
I had one of these as my second car, it was also the CD got it 1990 , it handled really well it got thrashed all time. I lived in countryside so was out racing the back roads most nights. Love it.
Game changer. Had one as a company car in '82 ish. We'd run various BL scrap before we got a bunch of these. Everyone was gobsmacked by how good they were. We ran them into the ground. Bomb-proof things.
I remember back in the 80s I valeted one of these,beige one with the steel wheels similar to this one,after washing the engine it took a while to start.but rare to see them still going.
I had one of these when I was 18, whilst all my mates had novas , i had a 1983 acclaim 1.5 cd and i couldn't knock it , the equipment on this model was pretty good for the time , power steering , 4 dr leccy windows, headlight wash wipe etc etc, ultra reliable nippy and very smooth , great car for £150 , good nick too just not much street cred at the time, great channel and video thankyou :)
Sat in the back of one of these from Devon to Stafforshire non stop. Could not move when we got to Alton Towers. But it sat 80 mph all the way up and back and was faultless.
Honda Civic of that era was No1 in sales in Greece, but we never had the Acclaim. Triumph version looks slightly better than the japanese version...
@Arsenal Emirates The Acclaim is based on the Honda Ballade.
I owned an Accord ex which my dad bought new and gave to me in 88. It was fully loaded with air con, stereo/cassette player and electric aerial, all power assistance. I kept it for 6 years and loved it, driving in the summer with the windows up and a.c on feeling very smug.
My bro bought one of these for 30 quid about 15 years ago and we half-buried it for an art project! However, for the few days prior to that, we had some fun, great little car!
Tea shelf? I just bought some ice cream.
Still remember my grandfather buying a Simca/Chrysler 1308 with electric windows and headlight washers in 1978!
Interesting True Story: In the 1980s I worked in quality control for an engineering company, our quality manager had previously worked in the Motor Industry a few years before the Triumph Acclaim was first built. There was an earlier attempt at a joint project between Triumph and Honda, Honda had sent over all the engineering drawings for the parts that were to be made in Britain. On inspection of the drawings the engineers noticed that there were no tolerances marked on the drawings, at that time all mechanical parts in the UK motor industry were made to a specified tolerance so for a simplified example a shaft diameter may be 4.8mm +/- 0.1mm, so anything above 4.81mm would be scrapped and anything below 4.79mm would be scrapped. Anyway the drawings arrived from Japan with no tolerance marked, a meeting was held but it was middle of the night in Japan so they waited till it was 9am in Japan and called to speak to the Honda engineers. Our guys were asking what tolerance to work to and the Japanese were saying "Tolerance, no no there is no tolerance!" Anyway it turned out the Japanese engineers worked to a system called Standard Deviation using statistical process control where the deviation was expressed in Sigma and not as +/- amount. So the project was shelved for a few years while our engineers learned to work to "statistical process control" rather than simply scrapping bits that were to big or too small. True Story!
I drove the Honda version when it was still quite new and was mightily impressed by the refinement, but was put off by the diminutive rear seats and cost. But I should have bought one as my first car instead of the Opel I bought…. Thanks for this test of a lovely, but mostly forgotten car.
Really nice car, a credit to it's owner. My father very nearly bought one back in the day, in the end he plumped for a Mazda 323 instead. Great review, enjoyed that!
I worked on these as an apprentice mechanic back in the 1980’s. When viewed alongside (for example) the Metro, they were so obviously badge engineering. Far more reliable mechanically than home grown models, although bodywork was prone to rust. They look, feel and drive like what they are - a Honda.
The Triumph Dolomite, now that was a car! The Acclaim was nice but the Dolomite is a real Classic.
You can’t compare them really totally different DNA both were good in their own way I knew friends and family
with both
The Triumph Acclaim replaced the Dolomite, and was in British Leyland competition with the Morris Ital.
Cracking video Matt, makes me feel old that the Acclaim ended production in the year I was born, but I do remember these on the roads when I was a kid.
Scottish Car Enthusiasts TV I was in 5th grade and was getting into the current cars coming out then!
I was at school remember loads brand new
I had a cd version back in the day .lovely car .pale blue with velour seats .waved it goodbye, to go to grasstrack racing ,with 124.000 on the clock..
I had both! The little Honda Civic sports, and the Acclaim! Both cars were absolutely brilliant at that time! would love a one of either now!
I nearly bought one in around 1992, ish, I took it for a test drive and really liked it TBH. Can't remember why I didn't buy it, I think I went safe and got my Fiesta. It's a long time ago now. Fiesta was great though, did about 85000 miles in it before the head gasket went. Fond memories.
Matt, I've had 5 of these cars between 2005-2013 and used them as daily drivers. They are My 2nd Acclaim (A846 BEC) was a Monza Red HL and only exists on paper as I still have the registration document in my name. Acclaim No. 3 (A865 MCX) was a CD Triomatic in Zircon Blue with 22,000 miles on the clock when I bought it. Acclaim No. 5 (BCK 142Y) was the same colour of Oporto Green as the one in your video, it was in HLS trim and I sold it 7 years ago. The front seats were indeed based on Cortina ones. The Acclaim was the Honda Ballade which I turn was the saloon version of the 2nd Gen Civic. It was intended to replace the Dolomite and as you've said, it was a stopgap until the Maestro/Montego was ready. I think that the EN4 engine was the same as the one in the Civic S down to the carburettors.
It emerged at the perfect time for the wartime generation to drive a 'British' car in retirement.
Indicators on the right hand side, I miss those and I still maintain that being on the right is the best place for the indicator stalk; you could approach a corner, change gear and indicate all at the same time.
Great video. What always surprises me is the safety equipment, or the lack there of. Rear seatbelts were required here in Canada for 1970. Head restraints were required for 1969. I remember my parents needing a new car in 81, and the surprising thing was that comperably equipped, a Volvo 240 Estate was the least expensive car we fit in that would go up our very narrow driveway. Honda made nothing we could even consider. Do love seeing the models we never got over here, even if I would not particularly want one.
Loved the acclaim it was the car that taught rover the word Reliabilty and that mattered.
Many years ago my ex wife had a pre-production Triumph Acclaim CD automatic Triomatic. That transmission was a weird mix of 2 speed semi automatic plus overdrive. Quick it was not barely pulling itself out of its own way!!! Being the CD it was well equipped for its age in beige with a brown vinyl roof.
so i got a volvo 850r yesterday for 400 quid! its a nice car just a crack on the rear bumper but it runs great and is quick ass hell and sounds good too!
only issue i have is when you start it the headlights and indicators dont work and the abs light is on you wiggle the key the abs light goes off and everything works!
My dad had a black HLS from 1991-1996. PHR564Y was the reg. I also believe my dad's one had the optional air conditioning.
The acclaim was a great car and misunderstood by some especially triumph purists who felt it was not a proper triumph or part of the range which was unfair it was always said it was a badge engineered Honda ballade and you could get the ballade as well (extremely rare)
It was a fast well specced comfortable car and to BL it introduced Japanese build quality and production standards and reliability which paved the way for the later rover 200-800 and for Honda it overcame issues of import quotas to Britain and Europe which affected imported cars back then
To the consumer it showed how reliable Japanese cars could be and it was the car which helped to turn around BL and lay foundations for what followed
All the people I knew who had acclaims many brand new had them for many years (some still do) with no issues at all and the CD was the one to have!!! That one is a beauty credit to the owner
Crikey, I haven't seen one of these in a long time. Always liked the Acclaim. I remember the "Totally Equipped" adverts for them on the telly when I was a youngster. Seems so long ago now, but I think the Acclaim has aged somewhat better. This example certainly has better bodywork, mines a little careworn to say the least.
Electric windows all round?
Thats just pure extravagance!
Memories Matt! What a lovely video 😀 My dad had one of these back in the 80’s it was a really smart little car 🚗🎌🇬🇧👍
I would say that the 12.9 second 0 - 60 is actually pretty impressive for a just over 1300 cc engine - the Toledo was 18 seconds, the Triump 1500 was not much quicker, and this was nearly a quick 0 - 60 as a Dolomite 1850 ..
Great car. In the 90’s though, I hadn’t forgotten it: I bought a 1984 HLS in 1997, tempted away from more common fare by the 5-speed and build quality. Mine though did have reliability issues. It would overheat even when snowing and happily dump all the expansion tank’s worth of coolant out during a motorway journey. I did find a use for the seat hatch though: venting a subwoofer in to the cabin. Also, I changed the 155/80 R13 wheels for some 14” ones from a 214 which gave a much improved steering feel and grip. No mods needed either
Reliability issues due to age probably not many cars at 13 years which would not have them
Bought one of these in the mid 90's for £30. We bought it specifically to race in and tried desperately to blow the engine when we'd gotten bored with the car. We just couldn't do it, no matter how hard we tried. I regret abusing that car now. We never scrapped it, but I don't recall where it went after I had it.
When I started driving in the 1970s the roads were infested with older people driving their Austin 1100s at less than 40mph. Once those disappeared, the same people all seemed to go out and buy Triumph Acclaims. Nowadays, they seem to buy a Honda Jazz.
They do seem to have migrated there...
The twin carbs were fitted to the Honda Civic S with the 1335 cc . And one of them fitted to my BSA Thunderbolt transformed it from a stalling, spitting monster to a sweetheart that ran like a Swiss watch. A gorgeous carburettor. Unlike the Amal.
I had one in the mid nineties. It cost me about £200. It was my daily driver for a couple of years and then I gave it to a friend who got a couple of years out of it. I think between us we did no more than replace the brake pads. I wish I had it now.
I had a 1983 Honda Civic S, was fantastic. Wish I still had it.
Bought one of these over 25 yrs ago for the grand sum of £200, drove it home and parked it up outside my house only for it to never start again :0. It;s probably survives as a tin can somewhere as i ended up having it scrapped lol. i did redeem myself and get a 213 and loved it seeing as it was more or less an upgraded version of the triumph
The tea cups where the car comes from are much smaller so the tea shelf in the car is just right! 🍵👍
memories, how could i forget this car, my mate ronnies first car around 1991 (exact reg/colour/spec)! we got up to a lot of mischief and shennanigans with this! (we were young)...........btw it definitley goes more than 84mph and you can get about 7 in the car with a bit of a squeeze!!!
Manufacturers performance specs:
0-60 in 12.5 secs (manual)
96mph top speed
1335cc, Twin Keh-hin carburettor, 70bhp
1.6L Maestro 0-60 10.5 seconds which I kept dead stick with so it's certainly quicker than the 12.5 seconds the manufacturer suggests, but like I say, it was no XR3i.
96 mph was pretty easily achievable, I did have one of these off the clock, but I was going downhill on some motorway.......somewhere 😉😉
3:52. You would come across that later though, because you would drive the Skoda Felicia and that has this system too (aswell as the preceeding Skoda Favorit) - which is the reason this never works on them 😀also some 90's and 00's Fiat's used to have this system (I recall seeing it in a 1999 Seicento) and also Dacia's used it in the first generation Logan and I also suspect I had that in a all new 2021 Dokker.
Btw about the seats of the Acclaim - according to AROnline, they are indeed based on the Cortina's seats (same skeleton).
Unfair tea shelf test. Big insulated mugs were non existent in the early nineteen eighties.
I wasnt warned to bring fine crockery, its now a standard unit of measurement!
@@furiousdriving I very sorry, but you are poorly informed in the use of correct tableware. Despite such an obvious fau pas, the video was still enjoyable. Look forward to the next.
In fairness the exterior of the Triumph Accailm is in good condition alloys very clean no traces of rust.
The Volvo 480 sold on German markets also got headlight height adjusters with glycol. It was clearly put in as an afterthought (height adjustment was mandatory for Germany only) and wasn't very reliable.
I had it’s successor a Rover 213S. It was a nice car but I remember mine suffered from a sticky throttle and the ignition barrel didn’t spring back when you released the key after turning it to the start position. I traded in for a Mk3 Fiesta that was on sale at a Rover dealer.
No one beats the Americans for power window switches from around this era. The driver's power window controls look so tacked on where the Americans knew how to make them look part and parcel of the interior.
The rear door switch assemblies looked better with their metal dress surrounds. This just seems a level of car that shouldn't have had them in that era.
This is definitely the predecessor to the Rover Quintet Honda based hatch -which were sold in here Australia.
This is one Triumph Car you could still use as a daily classic with minimal fuss.
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I did like those cars but had joined ford back in 84 therefore got a cheap escort mk2 with a dog tooth black and white interior loved it!!! Retrohax youtuber is doing a rebuild on a triumph acclaim at the moment..... Great content matt STAY SAFE🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🔧🔧🔧🔧
Ill have to have a look at that, wonder where hes finding parts?
@@furiousdriving i meant retrorestore!!!!! Whoops too many drinks.......🍺🍺🍺
Used to start mine at even - 5 outside no use of choke or accelerator and it would pur from the off ,,You could hear all the other cars in the street realising they better ring into work lol .
Was my 1st car Triumph acclaim HLS 1.3 with Honda engine as opposed to 1.6 brilliant car inspired me to later buy Rover 213 as opposed to 216 because of the Honda engine , Rover was a great car also
Headlamp washers, don’t let Hubnut see that. He’ll get jealous.
My brother had one, he always said its not a proper Triumph.... it's a good car.
My wife had the US spec version of this in the wagon/estate variant. In the US, it was sold as the Honda Civic.
Like a kid in a sweet shop! You can tell Furious has missed reviewing cars
the choke, hazard warning switch and the electric window switches were all carried over to the Rover 213
Interesting. I had a 83 Civic hatchback, and family had a 82 Civic hatchback, both US spec. Some differences I'd note: the dashboard is completely different than either the 80-81 Civic or the 82-83 Civic. The latter had a "tea shelf" in the center of the dash and lower. The inside door handles on this are L-shaped, whereas has Civics were enclosed rectangles. US spec models had LOTS of vacuum hoses under the hoot due to emissions controls. Overall, this Triumph appears somewhat plush like a Civic 1500 GL model would have been. My 83 Civic hatchback was the "1300FE" model with 5 speed transmission, one of, perhaps "the" highest MPG gasoline car sold in the US at the time. It was a fantastic car, reliable, and I miss it terribly. Bought it with 100k miles on the clock, and stupidly sold it with 205k. All I ever did was routine maintenance + timing belt and water pump, and 2 or 3 mufflers.
You are right about the plush Honda, they were basically the same but with better trim.
Interesting you said about the US spec dash, Ive rented a few cars in the US and often found a different dash for US versions of Japanese cars, Toyota particularly
The Acclaim has like 3 vac hoses, 4 if you have air conditioning. I’ve deleted one of mine as it was causing her to miss.
Great review as always:
I remember a few Acclaims knocking about when I was growing up in the 90s.
To be honest I thought it was a low rent, dumpy looking old mans car and I didn’t know how to pronounce the name on the back ‘Triumph’, but the word looked similar to ‘Trumpet’ so I always called it the Trumpet lol.
Totally equipped to Triumph!
In my early teenage years one of my uncles had an Acclaim CD, and I knew then that the Acclaim was the car for me. Ten years later I finally owned an Acclaim HL. It had a vinyl roof, which although common on the Toledo was rare on the Acclaim. Although I always aspired to a CD model I never managed to find one, nor a HLS either for that matter, and settled for the HL specification again for my second Acclaim, which was also a little unusual in that it had a black air dam (no, sadly it was not an Avon Turbo !). In more recent years I have twice seen and been tempted by survivor Acclaims for sale, both asking circa £1,500. Tempting ! One day I will be behind the wheel of an Acclaim again I think. Thanks so much for a brilliant video Matt.
Owned 2 a basic one and a cd . Really under rated cars. Looking for another 👍
I've never seen a Triumph Acclaim on the road on mainland Europe before. Was the Triumph only available in the UK perhaps? Or were these sold as Honda outside of the UK?
They were sold in Europe. We have a few European members in the club.
Oops, editing gumph at 15:54 lol. My friends dad had one of these, there was always something about them I liked.
damn didnt mute the B roll
Great video. My cousin had a Triumph Acclaim as his first car..
Hi Matt great video was great stop gap car well engineered, at least you have electric windows all round , I don’t have that on my mgrs 180 + 2004 , lol . Regards mark
I had two. HL & HLS, both silver & both automatic. Lovely cars.
84 mph sounds a bit slow for a 72bhp engine? The 1978 Honda Accord I had, which was somewhat larger than this and had only about 80bhp, would nonetheless hit 100mph comfortably--and that was a two-speed semi-automatic, not a 5-speed!
Martin from retrorestore is doing up an old Acclaim - do check out his channel; there’s some really good stuff there and he’s a genuinely nice guy :)
I have been watching his restoration, and was surprised, having never heard about this (being from the US), and that this is essentially a Honda Civic in disguise! I must say it is quite lovely!
Frederick Rothe III if you watch Home Alone, the Mall Santa has your version.
@@Landie_Man Will have to check that out! Thank you!
I had one. It was really smooth!
I'm sure it was a Y reg.
I ended up selling it for £90
I seem to remember reading the Honda people were furious about the ARG/BL link up with BMW, whose technology they considered very inferior
Looks in good condition but the MOT history on the DVLA site shows its had some corrosion issues over the last few years sufficient to fails the MOT including March this year.
That’s right. But nothing major, just little spots near mounting points. All cars this age will.
My grandad traded a triumph 2000 in for the acclaim , Hated it and brought a 2000 back but excellent review
All Triumph Cars had bonnets that opened the same as this Triumph.
But you should have known that prior to making this video. I loved your appraisal of this Triumph of British, oops! Japanese Engineering.
Bought my wife one the same colour automatic in 1991 for £250 t had 48000 on the clock great engine and box just as well I can weld the rust was a problem here on Scottish salted roads
The tea shelf is amongst my favorite of all the brit-bits from this channel