Mg Sv

gttouring · 4 Jun 2003, 13:39 (Ref:620577)

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The new MG Sv is actually lapping and looks production ready- bust those flares? and the big V8
could it contest the DTM? Any thought on a good new addition to DTM?

Graham Goodwin · 4 Jun 2003, 15:31 (Ref:620703)

A different SV was acting as pace car for the MG Owners Club races at Brands a few weeks back

Tim Northcutt · 5 Jun 2003, 18:36 (Ref:622101)

I like the MG X-power SV...looks like it would eat porches for breakfast on the french countryside....

I want it to run at Le Mans!!!!!

Tim Northcutt · 5 Jun 2003, 18:38 (Ref:622105)

Learn to type, Tim

Of course, I meant Porsche...don't want a sports roadster to eat a porch, now do we????

rdjones · 8 Jun 2003, 20:11 (Ref:624920)

It was in the paddock a Silvertone today and it looked spot on - photo to follow later...

rdjones · 8 Jun 2003, 20:37 (Ref:624949)

As promised here's a couple of picutres of the SV, taken today at Silverstone - Can I place my deposit now

rdjones · 8 Jun 2003, 20:38 (Ref:624950)

and from another angle

cybersdorf · 8 Jun 2003, 20:42 (Ref:624956)

But that looks kind of boring I think. And, does it have to be Idiot Yellow?

BSchneiderFan · 8 Jun 2003, 20:49 (Ref:624965)

I think it looks rather smart. Though maybe not in yellow.

rdjones · 8 Jun 2003, 21:22 (Ref:625008)

Not sure about the colur, I also think that the car needs a rear wing, but I would still have one....

Magical Trevor · 8 Jun 2003, 21:39 (Ref:625033)

Here's what should be done with it...

1.Make wheels taller but slimmer.
2.Keep the wheel arches, but make them slimmer as well.
3.Make the fins the same colour as the body of the car.
4.Re-work the back end. Make it larger.

Voila! Ready for the DTM/BTCC!

rdjones · 8 Jun 2003, 21:44 (Ref:625037)

Quote:

Originally posted by RacerGuy2
Voila! Ready for the DTM/BTCC!

I would rather see the car at Le Mans, but from what I understand and was told today, MG what to trying to brake into the US market - ALMS program ?

cybersdorf · 8 Jun 2003, 21:45 (Ref:625038)

This is a road car; the DTM cars don't have anything to do with road cars.
Also, BTCC has 2l engines; and MG already has a BTCC car.

Magical Trevor · 8 Jun 2003, 21:47 (Ref:625040)

But that... just doesn't look like a GT-class car! (At least IMO)

cybersdorf · 8 Jun 2003, 21:52 (Ref:625043)

What I don't understand is why this car has a Ford engine. I know it has something to do with the car's "roots" as a de Tomaso/Qvale, but what sense does it make for MG to use another manufacturer's engine?

Magical Trevor · 8 Jun 2003, 22:08 (Ref:625057)

I think MG is partially owned by Ford.

rdjones · 8 Jun 2003, 22:14 (Ref:625062)

No MG Rover is an inderpentant company.

Ford own Land Rover, they bought it off BMW when they dumped The Rover Group, after assit striping the company and getting 4x4 and the new Mini, but don't get me start on that subject.

Tim Northcutt · 9 Jun 2003, 14:03 (Ref:625847)

MG-Rover is independent...and I like their cutting edge approach to the entire MG line...

I believe they are going to build a factory in mexico or will acquire a facility there to build their cars for the Western Hemisphere markets....a smart move with GATT (a trade agreement among North, Central & South American countries that alleviates trade duties, etc...

I want MG to come back to America!!! they will sell lots of cars here...

rdjones · 9 Jun 2003, 14:05 (Ref:625848)

As I said from what I was told yesterday, by 2 people in the know - they are heading your way next year.......

Tim Northcutt · 9 Jun 2003, 18:29 (Ref:626239)

The car on the MG-Rover site (in the "development Zone") was silver...looked sharp...

the color above reminds my of a 1970's GM color that everyone in the States called "Baby **** Brown".....and that color stinks as bad as the substance that fills a diaper...guess you'd have to be a parent to appreciate that one....