Triumph’s production history spans small sports cars, practical family models, and larger six-cylinder grand tourers. The figures below identify how many cars each cited production table records, when those cars were built, and whether the total describes home-market, export, UK, or English production. The sources use different scopes, so the totals should be compared as model figures rather than combined into a single marque total.
Contents
- Spitfire and GT6 generations
- Herald body styles and engine series
- TR2, TR3, and TR3A production
- TR5, TR250, TR6, and TR7 markets
- Stag production by destination and transmission
- 2000 and 2500 saloons and estates
Spitfire and GT6 generations
The Amicale Spitfire production figures record 314,152 Triumph Spitfires built between October 1962 and October 1979. The series grew across five listed generations. The Spitfire 4, also identified as the Mk1, accounted for 45,753 cars from October 1962 to December 1964. The Mk2 followed with 37,409 cars from December 1964 to January 1967.
The Mk3 production entry is larger: 65,320 cars were built from January 1967 to December 1970. The Spitfire Mk IV recorded 70,021 cars from November 1970 to December 1974. The final listed version, the Spitfire 1500, recorded 95,829 cars from December 1974 to October 1979. Within this table, the 1500 is the largest generation by recorded production, while the Mk2 is the smallest.
| Model generation | Production period | Cars built |
|---|---|---|
| Spitfire 4 (Mk1) | October 1962–December 1964 | 45,753 |
| Spitfire Mk2 | December 1964–January 1967 | 37,409 |
| Spitfire Mk3 | January 1967–December 1970 | 65,320 |
| Spitfire Mk IV | November 1970–December 1974 | 70,021 |
| Spitfire 1500 | December 1974–October 1979 | 95,829 |
The same source records 40,926 GT6 cars across the listed generations from October 1966 to December 1973. The GT6 Mk1 accounted for 15,818 cars from October 1966 to September 1968. The Mk2 recorded 12,066 cars from October 1968 to December 1970, and the Mk3 recorded 13,042 cars from October 1970 to December 1973. The GT6 Mk1 is therefore the largest of these three individual entries, while the Mk2 is the smallest.
Herald body styles and engine series
The Amicale Spitfire production table records 530,369 Triumph Heralds built between March 1959 and May 1971. Its breakdown shows how strongly the range was centered on the 1200 saloon, while also documenting coupes, convertibles, estates, and the Courier commercial-style derivative.
The earliest listed 948 entries include 76,860 saloons and S models from March 1959 to June 1961, 15,153 coupes from March 1959 to June 1961, and 8,262 convertibles from March 1960 to June 1961. These are separate body-style entries within the 948 series.
The 1200 saloon is the largest individual Herald entry in the supplied table: 201,142 cars were recorded from February 1961 to June 1970. The 1200 convertible added 43,295 cars from February 1961 to September 1967, while the 1200 estate recorded 39,819 cars from March 1961 to September 1967. The 1200 coupe was much smaller at 5,319 cars from February 1961 to October 1964, and the 1200 Courier recorded 4,600 cars from February 1962 to October 1964.
The table also records 53,267 Herald 12/50 saloons from December 1962 to August 1967. These entries show the breadth of the Herald range without treating different body styles as interchangeable production lines: a saloon, coupe, convertible, estate, and Courier figure each describes its own listed category.
TR2, TR3, and TR3A production
The Triumph TR2 Buyers Guide records 8,636 TR2 cars from 1953 to 1955. Its detailed production table separates 2,823 cars for the home market from 5,805 cars for export. Those market figures are useful context for the TR2’s distribution, but the source material also contains a narrative reference to 8,628 cars. The detailed table value is retained here because it is the specific production-table figure; the difference is not reconciled by a new calculation.
The TRIUMPH TR3 Buyers Guide records 13,377 TR3 cars from October 1955 to September 1957. The production table lists 1,286 for the home market and 12,091 for export. It also distinguishes braking specification: 4,409 cars used drum brakes and 8,968 used front-wheel disc brakes.
The next model, covered by the TR3A Buyers Guide, recorded 58,236 cars from September 1957 to October 1961. The detailed market entries are 1,896 home-market cars and 56,340 export cars. The TR3A total is therefore substantially larger than the TR3 total in the respective buyer-guide tables, while both tables show export production exceeding home-market production.
TR5, TR250, TR6, and TR7 markets
The Triumph TR5 / TR250 production table records 2,947 TR5 cars between July 1967 and September 1968. Of these, 1,161 were for the home market and 1,786 were exports. The same table records 8,484 TR250 cars in 1967 and 1968, with all 8,484 listed as exports.
The TR6 Buyers Guide separates production by fuel system and market. TR6 PI production totaled 13,703 cars from November 1968 to February 1975. The table records 8,370 PI cars for the home market and 5,333 for export. The carburettor-production entry totals 78,147 cars from September 1968 to July 1976, with all 78,147 listed as exported.
The TR7 / TR7 V8 and TR8 Buyers Guide records 115,000 TR7 cars from 1975 to 1981. Its market split is 27,000 home-market cars and 88,000 export cars. Across these entries, the TR7 total is the largest cited total in this TR5-to-TR7 group, while the TR5 total is the smallest.
Stag production by destination and transmission
The Triumph Stag Production & Survival Data records 25,939 Stags built at Canley from 14 November 1969 to 24 June 1977. The destination split is 17,819 UK-market cars and 8,120 export cars. This is a factory production record with a precise start and end date, rather than a broad model-year range.
The same source gives a detailed 1970 breakdown by transmission and destination. In 1970, 358 manual Stags were built for the UK market and 30 manual Stags were built for export. Automatic production for the UK market was 342 cars, while 10 automatic Stags were built for export. Thus, the supplied 1970 entries identify both a transmission category and a destination for each recorded quantity.
The source notes that its 1976 factory row covers all types. That scope matters when reading annual production tables: a row that includes all types should not be treated as a transmission-specific or destination-specific subset unless the table explicitly labels it that way.
2000 and 2500 saloons and estates
The Extra informatie 2000/2500 production table reports English production and separately excludes CKD assembly from the figures summarized here. The 2000 Mk1 saloon recorded 108,210 cars from 1963 to 1969, and the 2000 Mk1 estate recorded 7,032 cars from 1965 to 1969. The 2.5 PI Mk1 entries were 6,519 saloons from 1968 to 1969 and 223 estates in 1969. The listed 2000 Mk1 range total was 121,984 English-built cars.
For the later series, the 2000 Mk2 saloon recorded 97,003 English-built cars from 1969 to 1977. The 2000 Mk2 estate recorded 7,577 cars from 1969 to 1975, while the 2.5 PI Mk2 saloon recorded 45,492 cars from 1969 to 1975. These figures are best read with their body style and production period attached: the estate entries are not equivalent to saloon entries, and the 2.5 PI figures belong to a separate engine and fuel-system designation.
The 2000/2500 figures also illustrate why geography belongs in any production-history statistic. “English production” is the stated scope of this source, and CKD assembly is excluded from the summarized totals. That makes these values different in definition from the Stag source’s Canley total and from buyer-guide tables that split cars by home market and export destination.