With my 2 cents, Nory, that makes 4 cents. I'm with you. There was a
British RAF Officer posted to Norfolk who brought an MGF to the British Car
Day at Tanglewood (Winston-Salem, NC) this year. It didn't do much for me,
either. Without the MG badge it could have been any other car on the road,
except that its steering wheel was on the wrong side.
Steve Byers
Havelock, NC
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE"
> Nory wrote:
>
> >>>>The MGF may be a nicer ride, but it just doesn't seem to have the
> visual
> appeal as the RV8. I may be pickier than most people (the former art
> student in me), but, to me, with the "F" they just created another
> Jellybean-on-steroids bubble-mobile car that looks so similar to
> everything else on the road, and nothing like an MG (similar to what
> Ford did to the Mustang, what Pontiac did to the LeMans, etc., etc.);
> like it was a effort to do what everyone else is doing, rather than
> something innovative. It may have the sports car ride, but not the
> sports car looks.
>
> The RV8 looked more like an MG sports car, and it was dramatically
> different than anything currently riding on American roads. It looks
> more streamlined; "sporty" rather than "bubbly". I bet they would have
> sold like hotcakes here had they made them for the American market.
>
> I can't speak for the rest of the American sports-car-buying public, but
> there isn't a modern car in this country that I would spend my money on
> (hasn't been one since the '89 Probe, which, BTW, Ford changed to
> another bubble-car and wrecked another great looking design). Now,
> something that looks like the RV8...... well, I can dream, can't I?
>
> Just my $.02 FWIW
>
> -NORY<<<<
>
>
>David Knowles replied:
>
> The MGF is one of those cars where photographs often do not do it
> justice - you really have to see it on the road before you can
> appreciate its finer points. At first, I too had doubts about the MGF -
> and personally, I would have rather seen a more traditional layout (that
> is just the OF in me I guess). But when I first saw the MGF in the solid
> (at a special pre-launch pre-view, and then soon afterwards at the
> Geneva Motor Show) I soon came to like it.
>
>
> DAVID KNOWLES
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