ROUND 5: MG1300 vs 1300 FWD
Following on from the discussion on the previous spread about which Sprites to include in the Midget figures, you might be forgiven for thinking that we would have the same problem in this bout. If so, that would really rattle the Triumph camp because BMC’s ADO16 range of 1100 and 1300 cars (Austin, Morris, Wolseley, Riley and Vanden Plas as well as MG versions) was Britain’s best selling car every year from 1963 to 1971, with the sole exception of 1967.
However, this is a very different situation to the Spridgets, because the MG1100 and MG1300 variants were not built at Abingdon, and MG’s engineers had no real input to the models. For those reasons, we feel justified in restricting ourselves to just the MG variants, which brings total sales down from a stonking 2.1 million to a
