...not sure about the article/column you mention...but right on one of Jay's
'Man on the street' spots on his show... he himself mentioned more than once
that he use to drive an MGBGT as a youngster.
Paul Tegler
ptegler@cablespeed.com
www.teglerizer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "V8 list" <mgb-v8@autox.team.net>; <mgs@autox.team.net>;
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Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:43 AM
Subject: AC 'Midget'?
> Sunday Times reports that the Kimber consortium (formed to buy MG Rover
> but
> lost out to Nanjing) propose to manufacture the (failed) Smart roadster
> under the AC name. "Midget" is used in the article like that i.e. in
> quotes
> but capitalised. Didn't MG Rover get that? And hence Nanjing? Or did BMW
> keep it?
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2330126.html
>
> Elsewhere Jay Leno (portrayed as something of a car buff) writes
> Clarkson's
> column. He writes that in his early years in Massachusetts: "You'd see an
> occasional MG, maybe a few oddball English sports cars but for the most
> part
> that was it." So doesn't he know MG then was English? Or maybe he thinks
> it wasn't oddball. Mind you, elsewhere he says "Ferrari or a Lamborghini
> were cars you'd see only in magazines. But you could come close to the
> performance with the Camaro or the Mustang." Er, maybe in a long enough
> straight line.
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