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MG Cyberster Trophy review

1 year ago

Writer:

Andrew Frankel | Ti co-founder

Date:

14 October 2024

How many great MG sports cars have there been? Plenty, but if I started banging on about TCs, PBs, J4s and K3 Magnettes, I’d see your eyeballs glazing over from here. Postwar, not so many, and I know that’s a harsh thing to say when so many took MGAs, MGBs and Midgets to their hearts.

These were decent cars at least until the latter two stayed in production far too long, but no more. The MGF was fine looking and not bad to drive, the TF decent for what it was. But there’s a world of difference between that and genuinely great.

And of course there was much to enjoy in a ZR and much, much more while skidding around in a V8-powered ZT 260, but these still weren’t great cars, any more than were the Metros, Maestros and Montegos of the 1980s and 1990s. And these were merely sporting cars, not true sports cars.

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