I’d have an MG 1100/1300 in a heartbeat. I couldn’t give a flying fig what the ‘armchair purists’ think or say. The very initials MG stands (or stood for) Morris Garages and they started off by modifying certain Morris models during the 1920s. Cecil Kimber’s original idea was to make a car based on a mass-produced model that was 10% better at 50% better price so the 1100 embodies everything MG is all about, except for the price. Even Autocar said on its release, ‘Yet the car performs with such enthusiasm that every minute spent at the wheel becomes a real pleasure….even the most ardent, dyed-in-the-wood MG enthusiast would deem this 1100 a very worthy bearer of the octagon’. At Sprinzels in London, we couldn’t get enough new MG 1300s, and as John Sprinzel, an ardent MG enthusiast told me, it was nice little earner which made the company lotsa money. Some in the UK consider the MG Maestro 2.0 EFi to be one of the best MG sports saloons ever, which in 1985 had a top speed of 115 mph, 0-60 mph in 8.5 seconds. The comment "It will be very interesting to watch how MG’s marketing folk navigate between the “purists”, MG’s sports car heritage, the amateurish BMC/Leyland badge engineering years (a Morris 1100 as an MG, oh please!) and their wider target market of younger buyers" relegates probably one of the world's finest and most advanced small cars of its time, released in that ‘magical’ year of 1962, to a meaningless nothing, and disregards the fact that it was Britain’s best seller for six out of seven years.