Before & After your MGF/TF?

I'm with Alan! Our hope is to keep our MGF long term, as long as we can afford to keep it running. It gives me confidence when I see Wriggly on 177k miles and still the original engine, gearbox, subframes, hyragas spheres and the clutch just failing!!! :thumbsup:

PQD44 wrote: :lol: Your hair was a lot longer in those days talkingcars.................

and darker..........

The car that proceeded my TF was my MG F, and I bought that as a second car because I could at the time. Sadly it died a death at the failing brakes of an Audi A4 about a month after I bought it, which is where the TF comes in.

No plans to replace it, assuming all goes well and apparently it features heavily in Becky's plans for my 40th next February.

It may spend a little time off road after that, depending on finances but I have every intention of running it through the summer since I missed a few great weeks of top down driving due to the darned accident.

I came out of a X300 XJ6 3.2 Exec into my F and then into the TF.
After the TF will be my turboed V8 MGB roadster at some point over the next few years...

An interesting move from the Jaguar in to the MGF.

Why not post a few pics of your cars in the photo album section :thumbsup:

A pic of the old lineup. You can just see the Vectra in the foreground and the Xsara in the background.



The new lineup



and I still have the KTM in the garage.

Didn't ask the before but the MGTF was the Vintage Racing SE No.15 of 30





So what tempted Nicolas Deslande, the MG Service Manager for France at the time the VR was released, to sell this beauty in 2007?

It was a ....


Mid engined

Two seater

Rear wheel drive

1.8 K-series engined sports car

Weighing in at just 725 kg






The Lotus Elise Mk1, at least he bought British and he knew how to work on the engine :yesnod:

These photo are just for illustration, perhaps Nicolas will post a photo of his actual car, which he still drives to this day.

I would like to think it looks like this ...




ok I know it's not a Mk1, You F'ers can be very picky

Well I didn't leave anything behind for my TF. We had wanted a weekend car for a while and finally found ourselves lucky enough to get one. I've had a lot of experience in the Elise but they're not practical, so it was coming down to an S2000, Z4 or a Boxster. After a lot of tyre kicking we settled on a Boxster but on the weekend we were going to buy it we saw Red and both Elaine and I fell in love with him.
Certainly no regrets, we've met some great people, and had some wonderful driving experiences.
Since buying him, I've put Toyos all round, Taipan cold air. Scorpion Twin Dual and had a Z and F remap, plus matt black hoops and glass windstop. Lovely car!!

Thanks for the post Mike, but you're not playing ball, now co-operate

Q.) What did/do you normally drive and...... if, just if, you ever decided to change what might you buy (we have said a £5000 limit not just a Bugatti Veyron :lol: )

Nice seeing that fantastic rich red again, I spent quite a while looking at your rear end on the way to Crackpot :bust:

My Car before mgf was a near perfect Carlton 2.6cdxi with every possible extra! and it all worked(even route the aircon to glovebox to cool cans of drink or keep your lunch cool)



Now my daily drive is a 2011 isuzu denver rodeo 3.0ltr auto 7 months old now and done 24500 miles


O yea i wouldnt have anything else....i know its a monster but it drives like a car untill you need a truck!

I guess thats me told off Paul! To commute to work I have a 206 Quiksilver which is mint and I love to bits (and no I don't wear a Burberry cap!) That cost me 2K on an 05 plate 2 years ago, prior to that I had an Avensis which I bought new but it was boring. My next car will be an Alpha Romeo 159 which will be in the 5K limit:)

These were the cars that eventually led to my MGF. I started with the Lotus Elan +2S130/5 from 1986 to 1989, my first sports car. Loved it! About the same performance as an MGF - 0-60 about 7.5 second topping out around 120. Too expensive to run after I bought a flat though so decided I had to sell it.






But then found a cheaper car - a 1500 Triumph Spitfire, which although not fast was my first open-top car. Had that from 1990 to 1993. Again I loved it - either car could make me smile just by going for a drive! I had my Spitfire when I met my wife and we both love having the MGF in its place!




The only other remotely sporting car we had was a Citroen AX GT which overlapped with the Spitfire from around 1992 to 1995 ish. Nice nippy car - but then it was onto family cars... Until the last 6 months! Yee ha!!!