Comments on: MG UK changes name, MGTF LE500 sales not great

By: Jennifer Garnet

Jennifer Garnet — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:32:34 +0000

This is deviser dandy impression – ego conceptualize so point plain folks bad profit by this! Looking contemporary pending it!

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:41:51 +0000

As a big MG fan and running two very late MGR cars, a 05 MG TF 160, being one. The new MG LE500 is only 135 bhp car, the car needs more punch. I would say the MG still looks good but also go along with giving the car larger side vents, and also having the hood lay more flat when it is down. As for in the UK driving with top down well mine is for pure fun but when it comes out the top is down. Great little sports car just make it go as well as the MGR car. Pete England

By: Peter in Oz

Peter in Oz — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:52:25 +0000

Yes the MG shape is 10 years old, the MX5 is 20 years old the Elise is 10 years old and the theme of the 911 is 40+ years old. I agree there should have been a bit of sharpening up. I would like to see the side vents fixed to. Larger more aggressive vents would have been the go. But the car still drives and points and has a high smile factor! Pity about the release date in the middle of winter in the UK. In Australia that is when we can actually drive with the top down for extended periods without getting fried!

By: johnno

johnno — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:04:46 +0000

export it to Aust pleas

By: alex scott

alex scott — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:55:54 +0000

It probably wouldnt have hurt to restyle some of the panels slightly. and I would have thought this would have been fairly easy for the Chinese to do. I probably would have sharpene up the lines only slightly, and completed reshaped the side vents, I am pretty over those vents they have had their day. Perhaps some small fluted vents like the MGSV on the side of the MGTF would help…I dont know.

By: darren

darren — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:18:20 +0000

You can pick up a british MG mint for under £4000, they are selling on ebay from about £800!
As for MG (tragics??) I don’t believe that they would buy this car as its nothing new…………therefore there is no market for it atall.
Unless they can design and manufacture a new sports in the UK they will sink.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:08:16 +0000

Well launching a convertible in autumn is not going to do wonders for sale. “In December it sold just 10 cars” – well who in their right mind is going to buy a convertible in the midst of the British winter?

By: Chao

Chao — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:49:10 +0000

Sure it’s a bad time for cars now, but offering up little more than a warmed up, 10+ year old car is criminal. Only the MG tragics (or overly keen auto speculators) would be in the market. Both are idiots.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:12:24 +0000

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y2NL-VEO_Lg

A better review of the MGTF LE500, includes Gary Hagden.