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Triumph didnt need the govt to intervene and bail it out, they came back with investment and hard work. HD is here only because the govt punished consumers and other manufacturers(who were producing the high quality products and changed the marketplace with that quality), and now we see Indian coming back without the govt covering the effort, but the old fashioned way, with private investment and hard work.
Triumph went bankrupt and what was left was bought from the court. By October 1980 the British government wrote off 8.4 million pounds owed by Triumph, but still left the company owing 2 million to Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Dept. It was all over by 1983. For you to say Triumph "didn't need the government it intervene" is inacurate to put it mildly.
Like I said if other manufacturers wanted to avoid the over 700cc tariff of the early '80s all they had to do was build their bikes here in the U.S. which is what Honda and Kawasaki did.
Harley-Davidson and Triumph are true motorcycle companies that live or die on their bikes...they are not small insignificant divisions of huge companies like Kawasaki (and Indian will be).
2011 Triumph America (10/2011 to 07/2014)
2012 Harley Davidson 1200C Sportster
2014 Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide
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