[TR] MG vs. Triumph

[Michael Marr]

I was always partial to the Y type and Z type saloons.  Very elegant...

Mike
(Ex-BGT and MGA Coupe owner)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Macartney" <macartney.john at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <TR250Driver at aol.com>; <spitlist at cox.net>; <triumphs at autox.team.net>; 
<fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] MG vs. Triumph


> Sorry, Darrell - I have to disagree. While MG may be known stateside for 
> the T
> series, A, B, and Midget - you have to remember that MG also made a wide 
> range
> of saloons as well, both pre and post war that were just as important to 
> the
> company and its customers as the two seaters. You may not have seen the
> non-two seater models in the US as much as we did in Europe, but they're 
> still
> MG's in every sense of the word and deserve absolute and equal recognition 
> :)
> Jonmac
>
>
>
>
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> From: "TR250Driver at aol.com"
> <TR250Driver at aol.com>
> To: spitlist at cox.net; triumphs at autox.team.net;
> fot at autox.team.net
> Sent: Mon, 25 January, 2010 22:30:07
> Subject: Re: [TR] MG
> vs. Triumph
>
> In a message dated 1/23/2010 9:03:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> spitlist at cox.net writes:
>
> It came  down to a difference in personality:
> Triumph were raucous, snarly
> little  things, all torque and attitude, while
> MGs were more refined, often
> slower,  but usually better built
>
>
> Hey Joe,
> I
> know as an owner of multiple Triumphs that for much of  the glory days of
> the
> competition between the two marques, one had  a lot of choices of
> different
> models with Triumphs. Triumphs evolved  over the years that they were
> produced.  Three distinct  changes in the legendary Hairy Chested TR 
> series,
> several changes in  the Spitfire series and then modern Shape of Things to
> Come the last  of the TR series. Not to mention Stags, Heralds, etc. 
> "Variety
> is the spice  of life."  With MG it basically came down to two types.  You
> had  chrome bumper and rubber bumper in midget or regular size.  Ha! No
> comparison!!!!!
> Darrell
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