Ever since he was 18 years old, Carl Coxall has been driving MGs. In the past 40 years he has owned two 1968 B GTs and a B GT V8 which he restored and kept for 25 years. Even his everyday car, used to carry around the tools of his trade as a plasterer, is a ZT-T 190.
It took something special to get him out of the B GT V8 which he had owned for more than half his life – and that car was an RV8.
There’s no doubt any MG RV8 is a rare and desirable car. It was born as an idea in 1989, when Rover’s marketing team noticed the increasing appetite for a new ‘proper’ MG sports car, spurred on by the success of the Mazda MX-5 and
