Exactly my point! It isn’t a daily driver, it is a weekend toy!
And be honest… how many times do you go “full beans” on any daily driven car?
I doubt my truck can accomplish its “when new” 8.5 second 0-60 time anymore and I very rarely mat the accelerator in normal driving. Even less likely street driving the Mustang or Audi. The acceleration (0 to 60 in 4.6 sec) is just too great to be safe in any sort of traffic.
For less than $58k, one can buy a new Dodge Charger EV with a range of 274 miles. It’s hard to find the actual 0-60 time for the “base” Charger, but with 496 HP, coupled with the instant torque of the electric motors, it should easily be able to beat the “e-MG” in any acceleration runs. And, with a 4-5 person seating capacity, I think that the new Charger EV could easily be a daily driver for many people.
I agree.
But a buyer of the Charger EV is not someone who would cross-shop an e-MG. This is like comparing the buyer of an axe with the buyer of Seido kitchen knives. Sure they both cut things, but the buyers are totally different.
Maybe yes, maybe no.
What they would have in common is an apparent interest in “sporty” driving.
The “sporty” part of the driving between a mid-60s 1800lb Brit EV sportscar to a 2025 4500 lb American EV muscle car is not comparable at all.
Like comparing a 67 MGB to a 1969 427 Camaro. Not the same experience, not the same buyer
If someone is hankering for the look of a classic Range Rover, but wants a EV, it is now possible to buy an EV-converted Range Rover restomod. It costs almost as much as a house in NJ, but if someone has a lot of bucks, and is willing to wait while Jensen builds one to their personal specifications, here it is:
Their specs show it at 1300 kg, 2866 lbs.
And the Charger weighs 5838 lbs!!! (Holy smokes that thing is heavy!)
Details, details… it is still like comparing an elephant to a gazelle.
True, many EVs are just amazingly heavy. The iD.Buzz comes in at 6174 lbs. My '95 Suburban was a lightweight by comparison, 5160 lbs.
I’m in favor of EV performance that’s adequate, not stunning, because it means the battery pack isn’t huge.
I understand EV developers want a long range to compete with ICEs for longer travel. The price the owner pays is the extra battery weight you haul around during the 90% of everyday trips far shorter than the range.
But it sure would eliminate the rain leaks!
When I first bought my Model 3 I put 2 toes through the floorboard as often as I could. That wore off and now I goose it a little off the line. I still leave everyone behind because of the instant max torque. Just like before the EV, I accelerate much faster when needed.
If I wanted superior handling in a 2 seat sports car I might shop a Corvette E-Ray, starting and about $107,000.
Not many are aware that the MGB was replaced by the MGC (which was basically the MGB with a more powerful 6 cylinder engine) because the MGC was a colossal flop.
The additional weight of the engine and required suspension upgrades resulted in a sports car that handled like a truck and very few were sold.
I’d imagine that today you’d end up with the same result or worse if you replaced the MGB engine with a couple of hundred pounds of motor and batteries.
It’s not a restomod. While I haven’t seen the design, I suspect that the batteries are under the floor and the electric motors are at the wheels. That means a low center of gravity. The MGC did not have a low CG. Thy cheated out on a competitor to the AC Cobra and Sunbeam Tiger.
I agree that the MGC wasn’t a restomod but more to MG’s shame, intended as a full production replacement of the MGB.
But more to the point, a significant reason for the increase in ride height of the MGC was the additional weight from the change from a 4 cylinder to a straight 6 and I’d add that the same thing happened when Jaguar replaced the straight 6 XKE with the ill fated XKE - V12.
Regarding the corporate restomods of the straight 6 AC Ace to the V8 Shelby Cobra and the 4 cylinder Sunbeam Alpine to the V8 Sunbeam Tiger, in both cases it was a major transformation from a “traditional sports car” like a Miata to a “performance car” like a Boss Mustang.
I guess my point is that if you’re looking for a classic MG, just buy one, if you’re looking for an EV then buy one of those but if you’re thinking about an EV-MGB, there’s a good chance that you may end up losing the advantages of eac while picking up the disadvantages.
+1
In addition to having a low center of gravity, EVs almost always have better weight distribution than a typical ICE-powered vehicle. For instance, your Model 3 has a 48% front/52% rear weight distribution.
When I was in graduatecschool, another grad student who had a room in the same house where I rented a room bought a 1962 MG Midget. I really.liked that car and wanted one for myself. However, on a graduate assistant’s pay of $200 a month, i was lucky to own a 9 year old 1954 Buick with 120,000 miles on the odometer.
Some years later, in 1971, after my 2nd round of graduate school, we lived in duplex where the husband of the couple was a salesman for a foreign car dealership. This sslesman was in National Guard and had to.go to training on one weekend each month. He would give me the keys to his MG Midget demonstrator and tell me to take it out for exercise while he was away. I really liked driving the MG Midget. I liked the precise steering and shifting it through the gears to keep up with traffic. However. we were saving up to buy a house, so we had to be satisfied with our 1965 Rambler.
Later, in 1997, a family owned used car dealer where I had purchased a 1993 Oldsmobile 88 had a used MG Midget for $700. It needed a clutch and a lot of body work. I went to look at the car. The two brothers that were the salesmen were busy with customers. Their mother, who managed the operation, gave me the keys and told me to go start it up. She said if I could get into the MG Midget, they might give it to me. With great difficulty, I got behind the wheel and started the engine. The manager then came out and said, “I hope you can get out or you have to buy the car”. I almost had to buy that MG Midget. I realized that at age 56 I had outgrown MG Midgets.
At 16 you likely had physically outgrown Midgets. 
In college I had an Austin America and my fraternity big brother had.a bug eye Sprite. We had drag races from one end of the fraternity parking lot to the other, maybe 300 feet. After a while we switched cars and continued the fun. Some of the best afternoons I’ve had, and all with snail-slow cars. OK, slower than snails, but we had us some fun!
@jtsanders Several years ago in my semi-annual doctor’s appointment, I told him that I wasn’t able to get into low slung vehicles as I used to be able to do. He jokingly said it was all in my mind. He then wrote out on his prescription pad that for my mental heath, I needed to have a Mazda Miata. I took the prescription home and my wife picked up.the.prescription and said she would have it filled. She came back with a Toyota Sienna minivan. I said, “That’s not a Mazda Miata sports car”. Mrs. Triedaq responded. “I had the prescription filled generically”.
That there is funny, I don’t care who you are…