DOLLY SPRINT

The Dolomite Sprint was introduced on 19th June 1973 as the first volume 16 Valve car to hit the market. There had been a number of limited edition and low volume 16 valve cars before the Sprint, but the Sprint was designed as a mass market sporting saloon. BL could have introduced a lighter, and maybe faster Toledo TS as a more sporting two door, however, plans to make the Toledo were ditched at the last moment... The Sprint built upon the highly successful Dolomite saloon with its slant four overhead camshaft engine. The engineers at Triumph had designed the slant four as the base for a number of engine variants. One of those variants was sold to Saab who used the engine in the Saab 99 with a slightly different capacity. The block of the slant four is nearly half that of the Stag V8, and some of the components are shared with the V8. Triumph did supply Saab with a number of V8 engines, not much is known of what Saab did with these. Another variant of the slant four powered the TR7..