Fifth Gear: MGB 50th Anniversary Test Drive

Tiff is taking the British classic MGB for a test drive on its 50th anniversary.

[bhrxmfg]

The MGB really is the perfect affordable classic car: relatively inexpensive to buy and maintain, most replacement parts still available brand new, and it looks beautiful. I am the very happy owner of a 1963 pull-handle MGB Roadster.

[Bob-vbi]

The “B” was NOT the First MG to have a Monocoque Body, that was the MG ZA Magnette of 1954 !!

[chrisadams]

The MGB is the perfect sports car, feels great to drive, I've got various cars but my 74B Gt in black is my favourite car

[olddogcitypound]

love my 70 M.G.B.-G.T.
with it's 350 Chevy+6 speed, also building 76
M.G.B.convertable with 69 Boss 302 with automatic. Love my L.B.C.'s. buy them cheap, build it the way you want it to be 😎

[dalemyers]

I've rebuilt the 1.8L to make a total of 140 hp Plus.

[ktmlcBGD]

Is it road legal or just like Aston Martin DB4 GT and Jaguar XKSS you can just keep it in the garage?

[alfiebarker]

never label monitor cvexdc general unlike grave rate pretty mention so-called.

[MarkMiller-vpgc]

Like usual, they compare a newly rebuilt/restored/modified car to a very well-worn and poorly maintained car.

[classiccartvfilms]

Some of us think that MGB's are great. I'm a 20 year owner of a B GT Sebring race car replica, and my mate owns the one in this film. We asked the question - is the MGB the perfect classic? @9Yz4

[JacK-yrri]

you can buy an old one for a few grand. Spend 20k on it to make it much better than this, bit strange to put a mazda engine in it and not something better.

[mrcaboosevg]

I'd rather have the old one and do the upgrades myself, the new one only looks like the old MG but other than that there's nothing about it which is the same

[rogerhudson]

Old (<100mph), new (160mph) but you can't do more than 70mph. Even the Elan Valley has radar traps now.

[anddgrech]

They made a master piece but they should have done a jaguar engine

[Zero.Requiem]

Buy an old one
Put a big block in-line 4 or a v6 or a v8
If you really want it
Upgrade the suspension or put a porsche suspension
Then its better
Why buy a car that is an mx-5 with an mgb body shell just buy an mx-5 then
And you can do all this with less than the mgb-mx5 combo

[barryphillips]

Might as well just call this car a mazda with better looking body than the girly mx5.

[MrBluoct]

Would prefer my old blue
69 mgb

Three fit snugly

Use your imagination...

Rip.

[bertiewooster]

Buy a genuine MGBGTV8 with slight tune you have 140mph 30mpg and lazy driving if you want only 2500 made the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing and cheap!

[guitarfoundry]

I stopped watching Fifth gear when they started doing the stupid talking heads to the side of the camera and explaining what you'd just seen, the silly sound effects, the jump cuts, the frantic editing...
it hasn't change and it's still as infantile as it used to be...There is a gap in the market for a proper, entertaining, uncontrived and unpretentious car show instead of all this shite...TG, Grand Tour and this are all ludicrous..At least Clarkson's obnoxiousness is funny.

[lipozor]

WHY bhp/BRAKING HORSE POWER/AND NOT php/PULLING HORSE POWER/?

[thereisnospoon]

"One of the most successful sports cars ever made 523, 836." Umm ok.
Mustang sold 607, 000 in one year
Corvette 2 million
Camaro 6 million
Mustang 10 million
Just sayin.