When Americans think about touring the British Isles these days, they don’t typically imagine themselves blazing the macadam trail in an MG. Once one of the kingdom’s most successful and compelling automotive exports, MG is best known to Americans today, if at all, as the maker of several popular sports-car models sold in this country a long time ago—between 1947 and 1980, to be precise.
Most people old enough to remember MGAs, MGBs, MG Midgets, and, in rarer cases, the cycle-fender T-Series that started it all—featured in Two for the Road, with Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn—have relegated the storied marque to the musty garage of fading memory.
