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Re: Spit/MGB

To: ArthurK101 <ArthurK101@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Spit/MGB
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 16:01:10 -0500
Cc: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca, kengano@advant.com, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Organization: BRIT Inc.
References: <f29ab76f.34ff0ce8@aol.com>
ArthurK101 wrote:
> The Spitfire was not in the same niche as the TR4.  It was smaller, had less
> power and was lower in price -- it was aimed at a different market - the same
> market as the AH Sprite and the MG Midget.  I used to refer to the Spitfires
> of that time as "my car's kid brother."  MG owners felt the same way about the
> Midget.  I'm not shooting any thing down here - I like Spits (even had a '74
> for awhile) but when new they really were more comparable to the Sprite and
> the Midget than to the MGB.

  To throw another wrench into this though, I have both an MGB and an
MG Midget and I prefer the MG Midget by quite a wide margin.

  The fun factor just can't be beat.

-- 
Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/

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