Number produced: 101,081 Price new/now: £940/£25,000 Engine: 1.6-litre 4cyl, 80bhp 0-60mph/top speed: 13.3 secs/98mph Replacing the successful TF was never going to be easy, but MG delivered in style ...

From the May 1980 issue of Car and Driver. In the beginning, sports cars were simple, full-speed-ahead-and-damn-the-practicalities two-seat machines with re­tractable tops. Their mission in life was ...

Yet early machines like the MG-TC, TD, TF, and even the beautiful MGA were fairly primitive and, by the early 1960s, were well in need of a successor. The MGB, introduced in 1962 and made through 1980 ...