Many of these improvements came after 1962, when the Triumph Spitfire emerged to give the Sprite serious competition. The Sprite was the lightest of the four sports cars tested by Road & Track ...

When car enthusiasts are asked about their favorite ... Named after the famous World War II fighter plane, the Triumph Spitfire was the brainchild of Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti.

Americans may be familiar with the Triumph Spitfire sports car, a derivative on a shortened version of the same platform. It was an odd car even by the standards of British cars of the 1950s and ...