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MG: Britain's Favourite Sports Car (Haynes Classic Makes Series) 2nd editionn
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Product Description
The second edition of this highly respected history brings the evocative story of MG right up to date, including the receivership of MG Rover in April 2005. This large-format, well-illustrated book charts all MGs from 1923 to the present-day TF sports car and 'hot' saloons, concentrating along the way on models with particularly strong interest to classic car enthusiasts, such as the T-types, the MGA and the MGB - the most popular British sports car ever. The authoritative text is supported with buying tips, personal impressions of individual models, and data boxes.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #36129 in Books
- Published on: 2005-06-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 240 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Malcolm Green is the Southern Correspondent of the monthly MG Enthusiast, author of two guides on restoring MGs, and as librarian of the Triple-M Register of the MG Car Club has written extensively about the pre-war cars. He has owned a number of MGs and rebuilt models as diverse as a 1932 F-type and 1969 Midget. He lives in Great Bookham, Surrey.
Customer Reviews
Nice presentation, but not a complete history of MG
This is a well-presented book, with plenty of pictures and factual information. Good paper quality and picture reproduction. However, don't believe the description that it "charts all MGs from 1923 to the present day." There is a very brief introduction that superficially covers all the cars and company history up to 1945. The book proper starts with the MG TC (1945 to 1949), and continues in chronological order from there.
The MGB (and its variants) chapters are perhaps predictably the largest - which is unnecessary as there are plenty of other books that deal with those models. It would have been nice if this book, claiming as it does to cover the entire model line and company history, had consumed less space on MGBs and devoted a lot more space to other models, particularly the early ones.
So, for the quality of what the book does cover I give it three stars. For not being the complete history it claims to be, it loses the other two stars.
