The MGB really is the perfect affordable classic car: relatively inexpensive to buy and maintain, most replacement parts still available brand new, and it looks beautiful. I am the very happy owner of a 1963 pull-handle MGB Roadster.
love my 70 M.G.B.-G.T. with it's 350 Chevy+6 speed,also building 76 M.G.B.convertable with 69 Boss 302 with automatic. Love my L.B.C.'s. buy them cheap,build it the way you want it to be 😎
Some of us think that MGB's are great. I'm a 20 year owner of a B GT Sebring race car replica, and my mate owns the one in this film. We asked the question - is the MGB the perfect classic? @9Yz4
Nope, it's road legal. There's a company out there that makes brand new bodyshells for these cars, so what they do is take an original MGB and rebuild it onto the new bodyshell with the new engine and such. That way you can keep the original chassis number and registration plates. It's all legal as long as you tell the government that you've fully rebuilt the car, and they then class it as a "reconstructed classic".
you can buy an old one for a few grand. Spend 20k on it to make it much better than this, bit strange to put a mazda engine in it and not something better.
Buy an old one Put a big block in-line 4 or a v6 or a v8 If you really want it Upgrade the suspension or put a porsche suspension Then its better Why buy a car that is an mx-5 with an mgb body shell just buy an mx-5 then And you can do all this with less than the mgb-mx5 combo
Most cars should be limited to about 120 mph not by law but by just design. And they should be focused on the driving experience rather than just brute raw speed. Even the Jaguar E type that could do 150 mph was never driven at that speed on the roads apart from a test drive on the motorway.
Buy a genuine MGBGTV8 with slight tune you have 140mph 30mpg and lazy driving if you want only 2500 made the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing and cheap!
I'd rather have the old one and do the upgrades myself, the new one only looks like the old MG but other than that there's nothing about it which is the same
"One of the most successful sports cars ever made 523,836." Umm ok. Mustang sold 607,000 in one year Corvette 2 million Camaro 6 million Mustang 10 million Just sayin.
Did pulling HP mean Wheel HP or Torque? If you meant Wheel HP, then my two cents is that BHP is preferred because it's the raw power the engine delivers not taking into account the wasted power as it travels from the engine to the wheels.
The term brake horsepower comes from the full term for a dynamometer that is brake-dynamometer.. The brake is arrange to resist the torque developed by the engine (whether at the flywheel or the wheels) and the torque that it takes to prevent the brake from revolving is measured (force at end of the torque or moment arm, times length of the arm from the centre of revolution). The power is equal to 2pi times the revs per second times the torque. In SI units that's Newton.meter/Second = Watts. Divide by 746 and you have the horse power developed on the brake. In the world of railway locomotives, your pulling horsepower shows up as drawbar horsepower (BDHP). The brake can take the form of a hydraulic motor forcing fluid through an orifice or a generator or alternator forcing current through an electrical resistance. Either way, it takes a torque to prevent the brake from rotating and rather than mounting the whole thing solid, it is free to rotate within limits and held by a torque arm having some form of load measurement device at the end. The electrical type can be mounted solid and the power measured as volts times amps = watts however there will be losses due to the generator heating that are not readily accounted for this way.
+ 984francis Thank you.The term brake horsepower (bhp) refers to a device called 'Prony Brake' (invented by Gaspard de Prony), which was used to measure engine power in the early 1900s. Brake horsepower (bhp) is the measure of an engine's before loss in power caused by gearbox, alternator, differential, water pump, and other auxiliary components such as steering muffled exhaust system, etc
Wow, 984francis is talking about trains (god knows why) and wellwisher is an idiot and has it backwards BHP is the hp measured at the wheels after driveline loss as opposed to hp measured at the crank.
I wouldn't discus your family heritage ,personal culture and education specially as we discussing in a public domain some technical issue However,I'm sure you can learn a more by reading such a content and evolve from your cave Brake horsepower (bhp) is the measure of an engine's before loss in power caused by gearbox, alternator, differential, water pump, and other auxiliary components such as steering muffled exhaust system, etc In the US, car's HP is rated at SAE net so as to give a true value of HP available at the crankshaft. SAE net is the HP output of the engine after the alternator, water-pump, power steering, etc., are added to the vehicle. Automotive manufacturers used to use SAE gross, which is BHP equivalent. This gave a misrepresentation of what the owner could expect from the vehicle as far as performance. This all came about during the HP wars of the 60's and 70's.
I stopped watching Fifth gear when they started doing the stupid talking heads to the side of the camera and explaining what you'd just seen, the silly sound effects, the jump cuts, the frantic editing... it hasn't change and it's still as infantile as it used to be...There is a gap in the market for a proper, entertaining, uncontrived and unpretentious car show instead of all this shite...TG, Grand Tour and this are all ludicrous..At least Clarkson's obnoxiousness is funny.
The MGB was never developed properly Mazda tried to buy them out in the 70,s but MG wouldn’t allow them to use the badge. Why would anyone pay 62000 for this retro car when you could buy a Porsche or Nissan or Mustang for much less.
MegAndJas There are still untold thousands of these old Mustangs prowling the streets of America...not driven as much of course, so as not to devalue their worth...wanna have a daily driver?, commute 200Km a day?, drive a cheap Toyota. At an average current price of $20K for a plain-jane 65, a Mustang is an outstanding value. Stock and uprated parts are plentiful & cheap...so much so as Chinese industry is making parts as well. How many 50+ year-old cars exist whereby heavy Chinese industries are cranking out replacement parts purely out of a desire to make their cars the best possible? The little MGs were pathetically underpowered...& overweight due to the inexperience building uni-bodies & the use of 16 gauge sheet-metal.
CarWhiz22 I do appreciate the MG line of sports-cars, but when Tiff declares "one of THE most successful sports-cars ever made...", & then cites the production numbers as "evidence" of that claim....it just doesn't hold water. I have driven both the MGB convertible & a Midget....& I found them wanting...more power, better handling...perhaps it was that stupid American spec thing and MGs decision to add body spacers to "jack it up"...ruined everything...an MG needs to be down on the tarmac... In much the same vein, I've wanted to drop a Honda F20 engine in the likes of an Alfa GTV2000...to try and wake up its potential...floating the idea had all the purists enraged.
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The MGB really is the perfect affordable classic car: relatively inexpensive to buy and maintain, most replacement parts still available brand new, and it looks beautiful. I am the very happy owner of a 1963 pull-handle MGB Roadster.
love my 70 M.G.B.-G.T.
with it's 350 Chevy+6 speed,also building 76
M.G.B.convertable with 69 Boss 302 with automatic. Love my L.B.C.'s. buy them cheap,build it the way you want it to be 😎
The MGB is the perfect sports car , feels great to drive, I've got various cars but my 74B Gt in black is my favourite car
We love fifth gear
I really want one of these.
I've rebuilt the 1.8L to make a total of 140 hp Plus.
Some of us think that MGB's are great. I'm a 20 year owner of a B GT Sebring race car replica, and my mate owns the one in this film. We asked the question - is the MGB the perfect classic? @9Yz4
Vintage model✌🏼😎
Max Tickner
what about a T.D.?
I LOVE that car!
It's a lovely car
Tiff N face and voice almost inverted
Is it road legal or just like Aston Martin DB4 GT and Jaguar XKSS you can just keep it in the garage?
Nope, it's road legal. There's a company out there that makes brand new bodyshells for these cars, so what they do is take an original MGB and rebuild it onto the new bodyshell with the new engine and such. That way you can keep the original chassis number and registration plates. It's all legal as long as you tell the government that you've fully rebuilt the car, and they then class it as a "reconstructed classic".
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Id rather have a Woodsport MK1 MR2 with a 2litre turbocharged Toyota lump in it. Much more fun and 1/3 of the price.
I like fiftgear very much
you can buy an old one for a few grand. Spend 20k on it to make it much better than this, bit strange to put a mazda engine in it and not something better.
...and then turn up at an MGB meet, lol
Ant Laud
I do!
It's a Ford Duratec unit by any other name. Hugely and very easily tunable.
The new one please
Buy an old one
Put a big block in-line 4 or a v6 or a v8
If you really want it
Upgrade the suspension or put a porsche suspension
Then its better
Why buy a car that is an mx-5 with an mgb body shell just buy an mx-5 then
And you can do all this with less than the mgb-mx5 combo
Like usual, they compare a newly rebuilt/restored/modified car to a very well-worn and poorly maintained car.
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Most cars should be limited to about 120 mph not by law but by just design. And they should be focused on the driving experience rather than just brute raw speed.
Even the Jaguar E type that could do 150 mph was never driven at that speed on the roads apart from a test drive on the motorway.
I hope SAIC is watching this.
MGB GT, Shirley?
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They made a master piece but they should have done a jaguar engine
Buy a genuine MGBGTV8 with slight tune you have 140mph 30mpg and lazy driving if you want only 2500 made the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing and cheap!
Might as well just call this car a mazda with better looking body than the girly mx5.
hey man that mazda mx5 is a lotus elan
I would not touch an MX5 too FEMININE!!!!!
I'd rather have the old one and do the upgrades myself, the new one only looks like the old MG but other than that there's nothing about it which is the same
Some people love restoring old cars and then some people just want a new car.
"One of the most successful sports cars ever made 523,836." Umm ok.
Mustang sold 607,000 in one year
Corvette 2 million
Camaro 6 million
Mustang 10 million
Just sayin.
None of those are sports cars
WHY bhp/BRAKING HORSE POWER/AND NOT php/PULLING HORSE POWER/?
Did pulling HP mean Wheel HP or Torque? If you meant Wheel HP, then my two cents is that BHP is preferred because it's the raw power the engine delivers not taking into account the wasted power as it travels from the engine to the wheels.
The term brake horsepower comes from the full term for a dynamometer that is brake-dynamometer.. The brake is arrange to resist the torque developed by the engine (whether at the flywheel or the wheels) and the torque that it takes to prevent the brake from revolving is measured (force at end of the torque or moment arm, times length of the arm from the centre of revolution). The power is equal to 2pi times the revs per second times the torque. In SI units that's Newton.meter/Second = Watts. Divide by 746 and you have the horse power developed on the brake. In the world of railway locomotives, your pulling horsepower shows up as drawbar horsepower (BDHP).
The brake can take the form of a hydraulic motor forcing fluid through an orifice or a generator or alternator forcing current through an electrical resistance. Either way, it takes a torque to prevent the brake from rotating and rather than mounting the whole thing solid, it is free to rotate within limits and held by a torque arm having some form of load measurement device at the end. The electrical type can be mounted solid and the power measured as volts times amps = watts however there will be losses due to the generator heating that are not readily accounted for this way.
+ 984francis
Thank you.The term brake horsepower (bhp) refers to a device called 'Prony Brake' (invented by Gaspard de Prony), which was used to measure engine power in the early 1900s. Brake horsepower (bhp) is the measure of an engine's before loss in power caused by gearbox, alternator, differential, water pump, and other auxiliary components such as steering muffled exhaust system, etc
Wow, 984francis is talking about trains (god knows why) and wellwisher is an idiot and has it backwards BHP is the hp measured at the wheels after driveline loss as opposed to hp measured at the crank.
I wouldn't discus your family heritage ,personal culture and education specially as we discussing in a public domain some technical issue
However,I'm sure you can learn a more by reading such a content and evolve from your cave
Brake horsepower (bhp) is the measure of an engine's before loss in power caused by gearbox, alternator, differential, water pump, and other auxiliary components such as steering muffled exhaust system, etc
In the US, car's HP is rated at SAE net so as to give a true value of HP available at the crankshaft. SAE net is the HP output of the engine after the alternator, water-pump, power steering, etc., are added to the vehicle. Automotive manufacturers used to use SAE gross, which is BHP equivalent. This gave a misrepresentation of what the owner could expect from the vehicle as far as performance. This all came about during the HP wars of the 60's and 70's.
I’d have the real MG
I stopped watching Fifth gear when they started doing the stupid talking heads to the side of the camera and explaining what you'd just seen, the silly sound effects, the jump cuts, the frantic editing...
it hasn't change and it's still as infantile as it used to be...There is a gap in the market for a proper, entertaining, uncontrived and unpretentious car show instead of all this shite...TG, Grand Tour and this are all ludicrous..At least Clarkson's obnoxiousness is funny.
Would prefer my old blue
69 mgb
Three fit snugly
Use your imagination...
Rip.
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Prince Charles had a MG C not a B.
doubt he could drive either
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Brooooom!!!!
Don't hit the sheep.
That would be some tasty road kill now wouldn't it?
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The MGB was never developed properly Mazda tried to buy them out in the 70,s but MG wouldn’t allow them to use the badge. Why would anyone pay 62000 for this retro car when you could buy a Porsche or Nissan or Mustang for much less.
dullest car at any classic car show
Major pass on the new car as it has no ABS, traction control, airbags and/or any of the other important things we now get with all cars.
you've got a good point with the airbag but ABS and TC ....noooooooo, horrible stuff
Half a million made from 1962 to 1980? Yeah? The 65 Mustang sold over 600,000 in that ONE year.
Ricardo Ellison so?
American cars have to be built in such high numbers because they are mostly scrapped in a very short time.
MegAndJas There are still untold thousands of these old Mustangs prowling the streets of America...not driven as much of course, so as not to devalue their worth...wanna have a daily driver?, commute 200Km a day?, drive a cheap Toyota.
At an average current price of $20K for a plain-jane 65, a Mustang is an outstanding value. Stock and uprated parts are plentiful & cheap...so much so as Chinese industry is making parts as well.
How many 50+ year-old cars exist whereby heavy Chinese industries are cranking out replacement parts purely out of a desire to make their cars the best possible? The little MGs were pathetically underpowered...& overweight due to the inexperience building uni-bodies & the use of 16 gauge sheet-metal.
dude the majority of us are here to appreciate the mg & not your shitty mustang. no one cares so take ur bullshit comments somewhere else
CarWhiz22 I do appreciate the MG line of sports-cars, but when Tiff declares "one of THE most successful sports-cars ever made...", & then cites the production numbers as "evidence" of that claim....it just doesn't hold water.
I have driven both the MGB convertible & a Midget....& I found them wanting...more power, better handling...perhaps it was that stupid American spec thing and MGs decision to add body spacers to "jack it up"...ruined everything...an MG needs to be down on the tarmac...
In much the same vein, I've wanted to drop a Honda F20 engine in the likes of an Alfa GTV2000...to try and wake up its potential...floating the idea had all the purists enraged.