This supersport nameplate was introduced for the 2002 model year as Triumph’s four-cylinder middleweight sport bike, arriving during the company’s early Hinckley-era expansion. It was part of Triumph’s modern Daytona lineage and was developed to give the brand a competitive inline-four entry in the 600cc class, alongside the closely related TT600. Triumph’s own brand timeline identifies 2002 as the year the bike was released, and factory racing pages note that the model was already being campaigned in 2003, when Triumph returned to racing with a Daytona 600 in British Supersport and Isle of Man TT competition.
The model remained on sale through the 2004 model year, after which Triumph moved on from this four-cylinder Daytona generation. It did not return in a later separate production era, so it is best understood as a single, continuous run rather than a revived nameplate. In Triumph’s sportbike history, it occupies an important transitional place: it bridged the company’s earlier Daytona-era machines and the later triple-powered Daytona 675, which went on to define the next chapter of Triumph’s supersport identity.
For enthusiasts, this model is significant not only as a road bike but also as part of Triumph’s racing comeback in the early 2000s. It helped re-establish the brand in the modern supersport conversation and marked one of Triumph’s more focused attempts to compete directly against the dominant Japanese 600cc fours of its era.