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Dubbed the poor man’s E-Type, thanks to its long bonnet and sporty hatch/coupe profile, the GT6 offered six-cylinder smoothness at an affordable price, while it was also compact and sporty. Far more than a mere hard-top Spitfire (which only ever featured four-cylinder engines), the GT6 was fast, stylish and easy to tune.
Triumph came up with three generations of GT6, but they were all basically the same; after all, when you’re onto a good thing, why go and spoil it?
All GT6s featured a 2.0-litre straight-six, lifted straight from Triumph’s contemporary Vitesse. At first there was 95bhp on tap; in time this rose to 104bhp.
The GT6’s silhouette was taken from the Spitfires that had competed at Le Mans in the early 1960s, but those cars featured four-cylinder engines.
