The main thing is fun - Austin-Healey Sprite Mk 3 in the (historic) test
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Summary
Small, loud and leaky - objectively, there wasn't much to be said in favor of the Austin-Healey Sprite. However, there was this very difficult-to-measure criterion of driving pleasure, which rendered all bourgeois criticisms meaningless. What other sensible car could drift around bends so effortlessly and in such a controlled manner at a slightly higher walking speed? This historical test report explains what makes the little imp so likeable and why a lot of good compromises are sometimes better than a mediocre new development.
This article contains the following chapters
- His father was already alive "back then"
- The engine - well-behaved and staid
- New rear axle
- The completely old seat feeling
- The main thing is fun
- Better driving characteristics off the shelf
- Can the Sprite hold its own as a sports car?
- A close ratio
- Becoming distinguished
- And when it rains
- Worth the money!
- Technical data & measurements
Estimated reading time: 24min
Preview (beginning of the article)
The golden age of sports cars is long gone. Around thirty years ago, the blast furnaces began to eat up the real ones. At that time, the automobile had just come up with the idea of no longer being semi-strong, but of growing up and becoming sensible. Since nothing truly masculine, and at that time sports cars were of this ilk, can be completely sensible at the same time, the breed of the pithy began to die out, and it is still dying in its current representatives. If we nevertheless encounter vehicles today that are popularly known as sports cars, they are nothing more than representatives of a renaissance that is both tired and bourgeois.
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