CAR magazine!!
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CAR is a crap magazine. For starters you can never read the articles due to the text/background colour, they don't seem to be targetting any market in particular and they seem to hate TVR. Noble/Caterham and others have the same 'issues' as TVR but they never slate them as much. They're all great cars, just not Renault Moduses or VW Golfs.
While I'm ranting - I can never understand why all the middle of the road mags praise expensive, ugly, uneconomical things like the new Land Rover so much. How dangerous is that thing in an accident (for the people it hits).
As for the MG SV - nice concept and I really want to like it. Totally ruined the styling, horrid driving position for me too (lanky, skinny IT type - possibly a stereotype from what your target market should be MG?). Might make a good track car, but on the road? Methinks you wouldn't see which way any other decent 40k (never mind 70k) sports car went.
While I'm ranting - I can never understand why all the middle of the road mags praise expensive, ugly, uneconomical things like the new Land Rover so much. How dangerous is that thing in an accident (for the people it hits).
As for the MG SV - nice concept and I really want to like it. Totally ruined the styling, horrid driving position for me too (lanky, skinny IT type - possibly a stereotype from what your target market should be MG?). Might make a good track car, but on the road? Methinks you wouldn't see which way any other decent 40k (never mind 70k) sports car went.
Targarama said:
As for the MG SV - nice concept and I really want to like it. Totally ruined the styling, horrid driving position for me too (lanky, skinny IT type - possibly a stereotype from what your target market should be MG?). Might make a good track car, but on the road? Methinks you wouldn't see which way any other decent 40k (never mind 70k) sports car went.
I like the MG, seen it at a few Motorshows, quite a brutal look, but it is just completely mis-priced, should be under £40k to be competitive.
AlexRWD said:
As for the MG SV - nice concept and I really want to like it. Totally ruined the styling, horrid driving position for me too (lanky, skinny IT type - possibly a stereotype from what your target market should be MG?). Might make a good track car, but on the road? Methinks you wouldn't see which way any other decent 40k (never mind 70k) sports car went.
I like the MG, seen it at a few Motorshows, quite a brutal look, but it is just completely mis-priced, should be under £40k to be competitive.
Have you ever sat in one and thought about living with the interior quality day to day? Makes a TVR look like a limo comfort and trim wise (I don't mean soundproof or drinks cabinets - but the Tamora does have a nice can cooler built in (glove box with aircon switched on)).
MG certainly made a fatal choice of material/design flaw in choosing the body material, rendering the SV look nothing more than what looks like a Max Power show car, too expensive for the kind of potential buyers who would ogle over it's looks.
If they changed the body to fibreglass and reduced the car to maybe 45K, it would then be on a par with, perhaps the M3/M5 customer base, but at 70-80K, they have only themselves to blame
(and why is there a comparison of two totally different cars????)
If they changed the body to fibreglass and reduced the car to maybe 45K, it would then be on a par with, perhaps the M3/M5 customer base, but at 70-80K, they have only themselves to blame
(and why is there a comparison of two totally different cars????)
chris watton said:
MG certainly made a fatal choice of material/design flaw in choosing the body material, rendering the SV look nothing more than what looks like a Max Power show car, too expensive for the kind of potential buyers who would ogle over it's looks.
If they changed the body to fibreglass and reduced the car to maybe 45K, it would then be on a par with, perhaps the M3/M5 customer base, but at 70-80K, they have only themselves to blame
(and why is there a comparison of two totally different cars????)
I have not read this issue but my guess would be that they are the 'non-standard' choices (you may have guessed I don't buy/read this publication
). But then why not include a Noble or a Corvette. Oh well. I think it also depends on what they can get their greasy mits on for a comparison.credit where it's due I thought it had some pretty positive articles. Usual rubbish about quality thrown in but otherwise they seemed to concentrate on the awesome bits.
Nice to see the MG wouldn't have won even if it had cost £40k nevermind £85! and I'm always a sucker for pictures of black Tamoras in magazines!
Nice to see the MG wouldn't have won even if it had cost £40k nevermind £85! and I'm always a sucker for pictures of black Tamoras in magazines!
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