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They made a 4 wheel sports car in the late 50’s early 60’s called the Sabre. Ogle designed a replacement for the Daimler dart called the SX 250. Daimler didn’t take it up and with a few tweaks it became the scimitar SE4 GT coupe first with a 2.6 litre straight 6 and then the 3 litre V6. For a short while during the oil crisis they also did some 2.5litre V6’s as well
By the late 60’s they wanted to update the design and so Tom Karen of Ogle reworked the rear end of the GT into a hatch back and so the GTE was born. The Triplex GT which had a full glass hatch rear created by Triplex in 1966 to showcase their glass is credited as the genesis of the idea.