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April 08, 2005
Two words. Crash Test. They have to furnish something like 20 cars to
the testing bed. Aside from financial difficulties at the time (early 80s) MG
found themselves increasingly unable to produce a quality roadster for the
US market due to polution controls, crash test expenses, safety features
and a lot of other concerns. The power output of even the B engine when
harnessed to air pumps, hydrocatalysts, polution gear, crash safety
problems (recall with the rubber bumpers were for!!) was really anemic.
The midget - even the 1500 - was a dead loss with all that junk hung on
it. And that is why they gave up the US market. There are a couple of really
good histories of MG available which I highly recommend. Poor old Cecil
Kimber. He's probably spinning in his grave....
McComb, F. Wilson - The Story of the MG Sports Car ISBN 0460039822
Clausager, Anders Ditlev:: MG: THE BOOK OF THE CAR ISBN 0831758503
John Heilig - Mg Sports Cars ISBN 0760301123
All of these tell the complete story and will save you from idle speculation
The McComb book is the best but is getting hard to find.
Jim Johnson < bmwwxman@... > 36694
Posted on April 8, 2005 11:35 AM
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