[TR] MG vs. Triumph

[spook01 at comcast.net]

the leyland managers didn't want two cars with the same powerplant competing
in sales.B  mg wanted to design their own engine, and had a alloy twin cam
that would work, but it had to undergo development .B  by then, there was no
money for development , so a old lcv (and other uses as pointed out) engine
was shoveled over to them.

the carB was redesigned with torsion bar front suspension and other mods to
make the tall old engine fit.B  the car was conceived as a high speed touring
car, but americans thought it was a sports car in the mgb mold.B  it wasn't.B 
then engine was (and is) very heavy and doesn't rev that well.

as a result the 'c' was dropped after only two years.

it is a comfy car if you realize it's limitations.B  it is not a chuckable
sportscar , but on the highway, it is a smooth missile.B  not what mg people
wanted.B  esp. that automatic box!!
ray




----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Muller" < jimmuller @ rcn .com>
To: Triumphs@ autox .team.net
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:35:04 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [TR] MG vs. Triumph

On 24 Jan 2010 at 15:10, John Macartney wrote:

> Actually Jim, the 3 litre 6 wasn't a new engine...
> Don't know if you have any Austin Westminsters , Austin
> 3 litre saloons or Wolseley 6/110's in the States - but
> if you do find one, check out the engine

Can't say I've ever seen any of those cars. B If I have and ever
looked at the engine I wouldn't have known what I was looking at! B As
for the MGC engine being new, I was paraphrasing something I read in
a review back in the day, one of the car mags lamenting that MG
hadn't used the existing engine from the A-H 3000. B As I recall, the
review implied clearly that MG had designed their own new 3 liter.
Perhaps MG started with an existing engine and designed their own
"application" of it. B Or maybe the writer got it wrong. B Seems to me
we said that a day or to ago about another columnist, didn't we? B Or
maybe I misremember it. B  Naw , that's not it.

Thanks for the correction. B Now I'll not sleep a wink until I see a
Wolselsy 6/100. B In my dreams, maybe.




--
Jim Muller
jimmuller @ rcn .com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+

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