Happy 30th Birthday to the MGF - British Motor Museum Pics
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Hi there,
I headed to the British Motor Museum in Gaydon a few weeks ago to attend the 30th Birthday Celebrations of the MGF.
I grabbed loads of pics of the assembled cars and its helped me confirm my suspicions that one of these little cars will need to grace my driveway some time in the near future, as although maybe not as highly regarded as an MX-5 when it comes to a true drivers car I really like the MG.
Also great to see some of the new exhibitions in the museum including the concept MGTF GT which had been rescued from Longbridge.
Please have a look at the gallery here :-
https://www.dunlopix.co.uk/MGF-30th-Birthday
regards
Tim
I headed to the British Motor Museum in Gaydon a few weeks ago to attend the 30th Birthday Celebrations of the MGF.
I grabbed loads of pics of the assembled cars and its helped me confirm my suspicions that one of these little cars will need to grace my driveway some time in the near future, as although maybe not as highly regarded as an MX-5 when it comes to a true drivers car I really like the MG.
Also great to see some of the new exhibitions in the museum including the concept MGTF GT which had been rescued from Longbridge.
Please have a look at the gallery here :-
https://www.dunlopix.co.uk/MGF-30th-Birthday
regards
Tim
Some great pics there . Thanks for sharing.
Had some very memorable drives in MGFs in the early days.
I was involved way before the launch doing some back to back tests against the just-launched MX5. Rover had imported a blue JDM spec Eunos (on a G plate) as the obvious comparator car, and I was invited to drive that and a very early and heavily disguised PR3 prototype at Gaydon as part of the sign off for the electric power steering. It was t quite a world first, but I think there were only a small handful of Japanese cars with the technology. It was fantastic!
Once launched, I was lucky enough to borrow cars for weekends a few times and the car generated huge interest - everyone wanted to see it whenever I stopped anywhere.
When we were taken over by BMW, I remember we leant our MGF VVC pool car to a couple of our new German colleagues for an afternoon. They were late back, and it turns out they d had a bit of an incident, resulting in a very buckled alloy wheel and some other light damage.
We had a plaque made up and mounted on the wheel which found its way to Munich where it was presented ted to the driver a couple of weeks later.
Fun times.
Never drove a TF - by then BMW had sold up and I luckily ended up on the Land Rover side rather than MG Rover.
Hurts me to see the new Chinese interpretation of the brand….
Had some very memorable drives in MGFs in the early days.
I was involved way before the launch doing some back to back tests against the just-launched MX5. Rover had imported a blue JDM spec Eunos (on a G plate) as the obvious comparator car, and I was invited to drive that and a very early and heavily disguised PR3 prototype at Gaydon as part of the sign off for the electric power steering. It was t quite a world first, but I think there were only a small handful of Japanese cars with the technology. It was fantastic!
Once launched, I was lucky enough to borrow cars for weekends a few times and the car generated huge interest - everyone wanted to see it whenever I stopped anywhere.
When we were taken over by BMW, I remember we leant our MGF VVC pool car to a couple of our new German colleagues for an afternoon. They were late back, and it turns out they d had a bit of an incident, resulting in a very buckled alloy wheel and some other light damage.
We had a plaque made up and mounted on the wheel which found its way to Munich where it was presented ted to the driver a couple of weeks later.
Fun times.
Never drove a TF - by then BMW had sold up and I luckily ended up on the Land Rover side rather than MG Rover.
Hurts me to see the new Chinese interpretation of the brand….
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