MGB GT V8 - British hot rod ex works
Summary
As early as the mid-sixties, MG offered the GT, an extremely practical coupé with a tailgate that could take a lot of luggage and was still sporty. However, the four-cylinder coupé was not really sporty, so MG initially produced a six-cylinder version. However, this also left open the desire for more sportiness, which could only be fulfilled with the MGB GT V8 of the seventies. Even if only for a short time. This report portrays one of the rare eight-cylinder coupés and tells the story of the fastest production MG of the seventies.
This article contains the following chapters
- The career of the MGB
- Unquenchable thirst for performance
- The Über-B with V8
- A primarily British affair
- Rare species
- Sportier and with a bigger sound
- More expensive than the other
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 6min
Preview (beginning of the article)
If you ask people with an affinity for cars to list British sports cars with eight cylinders that were sold in the sixties or seventies, they will probably mention the Daimler Dart or the Triumph Stag, perhaps also the TVR coupés Tuscan and Griffith. But there was also an MGB with an eight-cylinder engine, but it was hardly exported and only built in small numbers. The story is well known. In 1962, the MGA was replaced by the MGB. The modern roadster with its self-supporting body and well-behaved four-cylinder engine soon enjoyed great popularity. With Pininfarina's help, a practical hatchback coupé was created and presented to the public at the Earls Court Motor Show in London in October 1965. With success!
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