ROUND 3: MGA vs TR3
And now at last we get to the first of the sports cars for which these two marques are so justly famed. This will potentially favour MG over Triumph, not least because sports cars tend not to sell in the same volumes as saloon cars and so Standard-Triumph’s greater manufacturing capacity will not be so decisive. I am getting ahead of myself though, because I am genuinely compiling this feature fight by fight and have no idea myself who will ultimately emerge victorious.
The MGA was famously the car that MG wanted to put on sale in 1953, but Leonard Lord had just signed an agreement with Donald Healey to build the new Austin-Healey 100 sports car and didn't want the in-house competition. That’s why the essentially pre-war T-Type had to soldier on for two extra years, from 1953-1955, as the
