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1. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: "Bob D." <bobmgtd@insightbb.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:13:15 -0500; Wow, I really am stuck in the '50s. The styling of the new MGF does absolutely nothing for me. It looks like all the other new cars on the road. I wouldn't notice it, unless it bit me on the ass! May; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00400.html (10,545 bytes)
2. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: "Bob D." <bobmgtd@insightbb.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:29:58 -0500; As long as I'm ranting about the "new" cars: I really hate the big fat padded steering wheels cars have today. I feel like I'm gripping a log, and they look like a piece of vinyl #$&%. I'm sure the M; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00401.html (8,262 bytes)
3. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: Bob Shaw <shaws@mlcltd.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 22:40:22 -0500; I'm early middle aged, according to the demographics report I read yesterday (it puts middle age 50-75). I believe the MGA is one of the prettiest cars ever designed. Period. I don't intend to ever l; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00408.html (8,980 bytes)
4. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:59:19 -0500; <<<snip>>> Anyone else feel this way? <<<snip>>> Yes! Along with that mandated, because nobody will use seat belts, steering wheel airbag its hard to view some instruments. Everything in the current; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00413.html (8,755 bytes)
5. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>; Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:00:51 -0700; I guess we have our cranky pants on today? <bg> For actual race cars, I suppose a smaller diameter wheel might be justified; but most of these cars are involved in vintage racing now, and to my mind; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00448.html (9,740 bytes)
6. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>; Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:58:11 -0700; Well, it's hard to beat the classics. Also, the long hood/swoopy fender look of the MGA, which we associate with sporting automobiles ("we" meaning those of us who came of age before the mid-engine r; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00449.html (10,028 bytes)
7. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: "Telewest $PH$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:24:43 +0100; OF-dom is a state of mind, not an age. /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00496.html (9,084 bytes)
8. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>; Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:22:34 -0700 (PDT); Bob D. SEZ - I don't think you can compare them, as they are of two different eras. It would be like comparing a Model T with a Galaxie 500. Of course, there isn't as much difference in the 50 years; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00510.html (9,681 bytes)
9. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: "Bob D." <bobmgtd@insightbb.com>; Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:36:31 -0500; Hi David: That was my point, that federal regulations have affected (spoiled in my opinion) styling. But many of my younger friends really like the looks of the current crop of cars. To them, chrome; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00537.html (10,421 bytes)
10. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: "Telewest $PH$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:25:15 +0100; I doubt that *styling* has been affected, details like around the bumpers maybe. Cars like the Jag XK8 have a very strong family resemblence going way back. 'Styling' for most manufacturers is a matt; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00540.html (9,610 bytes)
11. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 05:08:09 -0700 (PDT); Without getting too far OT (too late!) I saw an ad in a magazine yesterday, for Buick, celebrating the styling achievements of Harley Earle, who of course was the styling maven at General Motors for; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00543.html (10,673 bytes)
12. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>; Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:10:37 -0700; Cobras are generally blue and/or white, since they were campaigned as American cars, not British cars. The original AC Ace is often seen in BRG, although the two at the Palo Alto meet were Italian Ra; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00561.html (9,570 bytes)
13. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>; Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:35:14 -0500; It depends: <<<snip>>> BTW, how old do you have to be to qualify as an OF? <<<snip>>> For those of us raised in rural area's pre REA, more than 60 miles from the two TV stations in the state, or of l; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00563.html (9,002 bytes)
14. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>; Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:39:54 -0500; there isn't as much difference in the 50 years of 1950s2000s as there is 1910s-1960s, but there is still a lot of difference. <<<snip>>> In 1952, would you consider taking a 50 year old car on a cro; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00564.html (8,689 bytes)
15. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>; Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:56:53 -0700 (PDT); Telewest SEZ - But there are regulations concerning "side impact penetration" that would prevent the sweeping fender/door/fender lines of a car like the MGA. Does anybody else remember that the US go; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00643.html (9,413 bytes)
16. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: "Telewest $PH$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:30:37 +0100; Entirely unconnected. The Government was already supporting BL, and when Edwardes closed Abingdon the then Prime Minister James Callaghan is reported to have said to him "I thought when we gave you t; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00677.html (9,110 bytes)
17. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>; Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:49:26 -0700 (PDT); Telewest SEZ - BL refused to back any new models for MG without an infusion of government cash because the American market was doubtful due to the mess of emissions/"crashworthiness"/economy/rollover; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00689.html (10,115 bytes)
18. Re: MGF mid-engine or not? / Stylish or not ? (score: 1): Author: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:02:13 -0700 (PDT); I agree. I was talking with my 13-year old son the other day, specifically related to Corvettes - he could not believe that 'back in the day' there were multiple engine and transmission choices avail; /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00691.html (8,854 bytes)

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