4 model families in the catalog.
1936–1955
MG T-Series: The Car That Taught America to Want a Sports Car
When American servicemen stationed in Britain during and after the Second World War first climbed into an MG TC, they were not looking at anything new. The car's separate cycle-fenders, upright grille, and exposed spare wheel were already old-fashioned by 1945, a design lineage stretching back to the pre-war Midgets.…
1955–1962
MG MGA: Abingdon Finally Builds a Modern Body
The MGA did not begin as a production plan; it began as a racing shape. In 1951, MG's designer Syd Enever wrapped a low, streamlined aluminum body around a modified TD chassis for that year's Le Mans 24 Hours, registering the car as EX175. BMC management initially declined to put it into production. The T-series was…
1962–1980
MG MGB: Eighteen Years as Britain's Best-Selling Sports Car
When the MGB went on sale in May 1962, it looked, at a glance, like a modest evolution of the MGA it replaced: similar proportions, the same family of B-series engine, the same open two-seat layout. The real change was underneath. The MGB was MG's first sports car built as a unitary, load-bearing body-shell rather than…
1961–1979
MG Midget: BMC's Badge-Engineering Twin Outlives Its Sibling
The MG Midget was not, in any engineering sense, a new car. When it appeared in June 1961, it was BMC's second application of a body and chassis design that had debuted two years earlier as the Austin-Healey Sprite. It had the same unitary structure and the same running gear, dressed with a little more brightwork and…