Bill wrote:
>
> Don't you guys feel just a bit 'used' when you deliver the correct
> Pavlovian response when someone says the magic initials, or pastes
> them on a car totally unrelated to the ones we own, know and love?
Boy, what a Grinch!
I am cheering on the MG logo out there, the name and the fact that we
may see some great NEW racing technology (it is built by Lola but there
is some unique technology in this beast) emerge from this effort, and
the effort put into the World Rally Championship and British Touring Car
Championship, out into a line of MG branded 'street sports cars'.
Hey, if I had been shipwrecked on an island for thirty years and was
rescued to find the MG Motor Company still producing cars similar to my
'B .. THEN I would be embarrassed. I would expect the cars that would
be made by that company to be totally different in virtually all
respects to what was around thirty years ago.
The connection for me is that MG was a unique 'little' brand and that
uniqueness became the 'little guys vs the big guys' when it came to
their racing development and efforts. What we are seeing here (despite
the Lola involvement) is still a bit of David vs Goliath stuff with the
new kids on the block vs the established make cars out there.
Maybe it is a little bit of the support for the 'underdog' that we
Aussies are huge on, but if it has the MG name on it then that is the
one that I will be cheering for. If it was a Williams car sponsored by
MG with MG livery (and there wasn't an MG car in the race) then THAT is
the car I would be cheering for.
It is a sport and I am cheering for my team. You can do as you wish.
The car looks great and that logo looks even better!
Eric
'68MGB MkII
Adelaide, South Australia
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