Description
Author: Malcolm Green, ISBN: 9780857331076, 192 pages, 3rd Edition published in 2011
MG remains the world's most recognised sports car marque, surviving the collapse of parent MG Rover in 2005 to become the jewel in the crown of the SAIC brand portfolio. Today, UK-designed and engineered performance saloons, in keeping with MG's most recent offerings, spearhead a product range true to the octagon's sporting traditions, with a successor sports car to the much-loved MG TF and MGB definitely in the future mix. With the MG brand now benefiting from the resources of the world's eighth-largest vehicle manufacturer, coupled with the strongest of commitments to its famous heritage, its future has the potential to match its illustrious past.
MG has always been stylish. Company founder Cecil Kimber brought a faultless sense of line and shape to pre-war models, with their sweeping running boards and separate headlamps. These characteristics were followed through in the first post-war models of the celebrated T-Series, perhaps the archetypal British sports car of the 1940s and 1950s. With the Z Magnettes came monocoque body construction, then in 1955 the MGA was introduced. The 1960s and 1970s saw the lively little Midget and the bestselling model of them all, the MGB.
The entire story is told in this authoritative book and brought right up to date for this third edition, which describes the full evolution of the MGF and TF, the MG performance saloons, the collapse and rebirth of the company and a return to Kimber's original vision, to provide affordable driving fun in the true 'Safety Fast!' tradition.
Malcolm Green purchased his first MG, a new 1,098cc Midget, in 1962 and since then has owned or driven most models and also fully restored quite a number. He met many of those involved with the company in the early days, and in the 1970s visited the Abingdon factory regularly. He has written a number of books and articles on MGs.
Andrew Roberts is a regular feature writer, photographer and columnist, and a past editor-at-large for MG Enthusiast magazine. A member of the Guild of Motoring Writers and a past winner of the MG Car Club Wilson McComb Award, he is managing editor of the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Yearbook.
