OFTEN owners of any of the interesting products produced by the British TVR marque have to put up with the question, ''Is it a Triumph?''.
The truth is that the only connection TVR has with Triumph is that, back in the early 1970s, TVR used the 2.5-litre, in-line six-cylinder Triumph TR5 engine to power the TVR Vixen 2500M. TVR is a car-maker in its own right.
It makes traditional British roadsters designed to carry two people in style.
Its cars have plenty of character and give their drivers enormous satisfaction.
The original TVR was designed in the 1950s by Trevor Wilkinson about the same time that the great Colin Chapman launched the Lotus car.
TVR is probably the only remaining maker of innovative, but traditional sports cars in the British tradition.
Over the years, TVRs have been powered by engines from the MGA, MGB, Coventry Climax, Triumph, Ford (including the powerful Ford 289 V8 shoehorned into the original TVR Griffith), the Rover V8 and now the TVR-developed AJP V8.