Triumph Acclaim

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The Triumph Acclaim is a small family car manufactured by British Leyland (BL) from 1981 to 1984, as a locally built version of the Honda Ballade. It is a four-door saloon car with a front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout. The Acclaim was the final car marketed under the Triumph marque, and the first product of the alliance between BL (later the Rover Group) and Honda which would last until the mid-1990s. The Acclaim was the first Japanese-designed car manufactured within the European Economic Community (now the European Union), to bypass Japan's voluntary limit of 11 per cent market of the total number of European sales. Most Acclaims were sold in the United Kingdom. It was a major turnaround point for BL itself, achieving both reliability and high build quality from the outset. Assembled at the Pressed Steel Fisher Plant at Cowley, Oxford, the Acclaim paved the way for the Honda-based, Rover-badged range of cars which BL (and successor organisations Austin Rover and Rover Group) would develop throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The development process began in 1978, when British Leyland entered into negotiations with Honda to develop a new small family saloon. Although the Acclaim officially replaced the Triumph Dolomite, BL's mainstream products in the segment were the Austin Allegro and Austin Maxi - both of which were outdated and nearing the end of a long production run. The Acclaim was therefore originally intended as a short-term product until all-new products were ready for launch.