By the powers vested in me, thou art forgiven
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From: Larry Macy
To: David Knowles; MGDIGEST
Subject: Re: Midget based on Honda Civic? Not actually true....
Date: 15 October 1997 18:40
Oh Great and Powerful OZ (er David) I stand (er sit) corrected. As I
read
this I remebvered the details in R&T. Oops
Forgive all Knoweledgable
Larry Macy
78 Midget
>Larry & Janet wrote:
>
> >>>Several years ago there was a new Midget based on the Honda Civic.
>At the
>time I thought "STUPID" then I thought It's an MG, get the placard in
>the
>consumers view.
>As far as I know they never delivered.
>
>Larry & Janet
>78 Midget<<<<
>
>As far as Austin Rover (as the company was known at the time) was
>concerned, there never was an MG Midget based upon the Honda Civic.
>Motor magazine ran a story with uncannily accurate sketches in January
>1985, and said that these were of an MG Midget based on the Civic - but
>they weren't; the actual prototype (featured in my book) was a styling
>model, based upon the packaging of a proposed new Metro (Austin Rover's
>small hatchback) and developed in the Austin Rover Advanced Concept
>Studio. It was not a runner and was really just an ideas car - car
>companies build these all the time.
>
>Fast forward a year or two (I forget the exact dates) and Road & Track
>built a Honda CRX Spyder, and dolled one up with cardboard cut-out MG
>badges as a "what if?" MG Midget. They were also following the line
>that, behind closed doors, Austin Rover was working on such a car.
>Perhaps it should have been, but it wasn't.
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