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Driving pleasure in the smallest of spaces - MG Midget Mark II in (historic) test

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Created on June 10, 1966

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Gerhardt Koop

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MG Midget Mk II (1966) - the Swiss license plate makes it clear how small the roadster really is.

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MG Midget Mk II (1964) - with 60 hp from a displacement of 1.1 liters

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MG Midget Mk II (1964) - fully retractable side windows and triangular windows in the doors

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MG Midget Mk II (1964) - door windows at half-mast make it clear: they are for cranking instead of plugging in

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MG Midget Mk II (1965) - entertaining, but sometimes somewhat unpredictable driving behavior

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MG Midget Mk II (1964) - Interior redesigned and more luxurious

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MG Midget Mk II (1965) - the ladies loved it

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MG Midget Mk II (1964) - rare color photo together with the Minis of the Monte-Carlo Rally

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MG Midget Mk II (1965) - for a relaxing trip for two, for example to the chalk cliffs of Dover

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MG Midget Mk II (1966) - the new dashboard with displays for oil pressure and water temperature

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MG Midget Mk II (1966) - the BMC-A engine with 1098 cm3

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Summary

Cars like the MG Midget derive their appeal more from the subjective driving experience than from their objective performance. On the highway, the 55 hp midget outruns every mid-range sedan. However, no closed car in the world offers this inimitable mixture of airstream, driving pleasure and driving noise. This historic test report from 1966 confirms this.

This article contains the following chapters

Almost family-friendly
Easy to operate
Not a speeding touring car
Technical data and measurements

Estimated reading time: 10min

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When you say sports car, you think of England, and very, very many people then think of the MG Midget or its twin, the Austin-Healey Sprite, which we recently reported on. It is no coincidence that this model embodies the type. After all, it has been built for almost three decades, and apparently only on the island do people have the courage to do so. Over almost thirty years, however, hardly anything retains the same appearance and interior, let alone a car. So the MG Midget has nothing more in common with its ancestors than its fashionable character of offering people fast looks and individuality for a relatively high price compared to normal passenger cars. It still does this, although the trend towards more comfort and better equipment was unstoppable in this model too. It is not a "hot stove", even if it looks like one.

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