60 grand MG SV Supa Shite

[cort16]

Should possibly been in the bargains thread but I see this MG SV has just popped up on the dead sea salty Ecletic cars website for £60,000.

It's delivery mileage mind you but in my mind this is still shite all be it v8 powered as it was a complete folly.

Oddly Parkers have a review on them

 

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/mg/sv/coupe-2004/

 

Performance

The starting point is a 4.6-litre Ford V8 with 320bhp. Enough for rapid if not electrifying performance. Then there's a 400bhp upgrade. But for the ultimate, MG will oblige with you with nitrous oxide - apparently good for almost 1000bhp!

 

I've heard about this 1000bhp SV loads of times but did they ever actually build one?

 

Has anyone been in one, driven one or even seen one?

 

http://www.eclecticcars.co.uk/2011/11/mg-x-power-1-sv/

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Those things are defo 110% blue-chip SHITE, i wonder if the Phoenix fource look back on em and think 'dear god, what were we thinking'

[HillmanImp]

I think these things are full of win. Fuck knows what they are actually like as a car though.

 

If I won the lottery I would buy one for my nan as she has always wanted a classic MG.

[cort16]

I think their plan was more like "oooh, look over here at this shiny v8 super car" as a distraction while they had their cars out the back filling them with money and k-series head gaskets.

[cort16]

Defo solid gold shite.

 

Several of the cars’ exterior and interior parts were borrowed from current and past Fiat models. The headlights, for example, were taken from a Punto Mk.2 and the rear lights borrowed from a Fiat Coupe.

[morris_ital_lover]

I think their plan was more like "oooh, look over here at this shiny v8 super car" as a distraction while they raided the company for anything of worth and left it for dead by not investing a penny in R&D for years.

 

 

EFA

 

As for the SV I think they look pretty damn good and IIRC they sounded pretty good as well... deffo solid gold, I'l love one one day shite. I used to see one in Oxford a fair bit being driven by a man of impeccable car taste, Rowan Atkinson, and he seemed to use it as much as his roller, f1 and NSX so it can't have been all bad.

 

If you want aa proper shite story look at the Riley attempt to build them again, some guy bought the MGXPower name and the kit to build 'em but eventually just seemed to go bust allegedly owing alot of money to people having built one to an incredibly low standard.

[cobblers]

The wheels are also any old bollocks they could pick up out of the back of fast car magazine.

[hairnet]

sea salty is right

 

just found 3 and the salty one is only 45k

 

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3129131.htm

 

 

nec show car.........

[holbeck]

Defo solid gold shite.

 

Several of the cars’ exterior and interior parts were borrowed from current and past Fiat models. The headlights, for example, were taken from a Punto Mk.2 and the rear lights borrowed from a Fiat Coupe.

 

This project was going on in the flight shed at Longbridge when I was a regular visitor. I seem to remember being told by a Longbridge staffer that they were sending a guy down to the fiat dealer in Birmingham to buy the lights over the counter.

[ashmicro]

I saw one being blatted around Kirkistown circuit in 2007. I never found out who was driving it, but it sounded amazing. Tad squirrely under braking, mind.

[cort16]

I like it for what it it's hard to believe people payed 70 grand for them new. The interiors naff looks really naff and wheels are too small.

If I was going for MG folly's I'd go for a ZT260 mainly because I might actually be able to afford on.e

[trigger]

I often see one parked up my near me, it's a really good looking car i think, Shame they never soild more, In fact I've found it on google streetview.

 

 

[worldofceri]

Treble bonus Commer and Trans Ams!!!1!

[mk2_craig]

LOL, how out of place does that look!!

 

If I had an SV I'd bling it up with some of these:

 

 

Innit.

[dollywobbler]

I've seen one on the roads in Warwickshire, and one drag racing at Santa Pod. The noise is just absolutely perfect, plus this is the car that famously smacked Clarkson on the head, making it the best car of all time, even if it does have Punto headlamps.

 

Here's the Santa Pod one. Most MGs make a different kind of smoke...

[cort16]

I saw that dragster one when I had a look at the SV register earlier. That must be the only 1000bhp one in existance even though the press mentioned 1000bhp every time they talked about it.

[catsinthewelder]

A few years back, just before MG-Rover went belly up, I went to the agricultural fair at Tenbury Wells and was somewhat suprised to see 3 of these under an MG X power gazebo. Found out later that they had sold the SV operation off to some bloke who was knocking them together in a unit in the town.

 

Tenbury wells is not really very far from Ledbury ironically

[Hertz]

Guy I bought my Renault Alpine from "upgraded" to one. I think he said he paid £30k for his, lovely sound. Very rare with only 60 odd being built.

 

 

[Justin Case]

A few years back, just before MG-Rover went belly up, I went to the agricultural fair at Tenbury Wells and was somewhat suprised to see 3 of these under an MG X power gazebo. Found out later that they had sold the SV operation off to some bloke who was knocking them together in a unit in the town.

 

Tenbury wells is not really very far from Ledbury ironically

 

I was also there , and managed to get a (rather poor) photo of the stand:

 

MG SV X-Power by geoffp5, on Flickr

 

Quite impressive display for a 60 grand car; the purveyors of septic tanks and milking machines had rather more upmarket stands

[Station]

It's a proper oddball looking car. Wasn't it a Fiat or something, and MGR bought the plans?

[Pete-M]

DeTomato or summat wasn't it?

[Station]

Looking on AROnline, this was the proposed car built on the Qvale Mangusta (a De Tomaso based car):

 

 

Looks MGTF'ish.

 

The X80, as revealed to the world in 2001: this is not a car that designer Peter Stevens was totally happy with, identifying several areas where he felt there was room for improvement. Much of the press felt the same way, and soon MG Rover were planning something far more extreme.

 

No shit!

 

I think that X80 would've actually made it a more successful alternative to those similar looking Jaguars?? But kind've like the SV a lot better, it's a beast!

[Guest]

DeTomato or summat wasn't it?

 

It was a DeTomaso Bigua initially. Then top import mentalist Kjell Qvale bought the rights to the Mangusta name, renamed it the Qvale Mangusta, and I believe MGR bought the platform and intellectual rights off him.

That explains the 351 Ford V8, as DeTomaso had traditionally used Ford engines throughout their production range, thanks to Alessandro DeTomaso's links with Ford (the original Mangusta was sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealerships for a while Stateside).

 

Personally I'd fuck the BGW off, because it's fucking awful. The MGR rebody isn't the most elegant thing in the world - it's hard to believe Peter Stevens did the restyle - but I suppose he was constrained by a fairly shite set of hard points to start with.

[Pete-M]

It was a DeTomaso Bigua initially. Then top import mentalist Kjell Qvale bought the rights to the Mangusta name, renamed it the Qvale Mangusta, and I believe MGR bought the platform and intellectual rights off him.

That explains the 351 Ford V8, as DeTomaso had traditionally used Ford engines throughout their production range, thanks to Alessandro DeTomaso's links with Ford (the original Mangusta was sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealerships for a while Stateside).

 

351? It's the 4.6 Lincoln / Moosetang engine. 281 queuebes.

[Guest]

It was a DeTomaso Bigua initially. Then top import mentalist Kjell Qvale bought the rights to the Mangusta name, renamed it the Qvale Mangusta, and I believe MGR bought the platform and intellectual rights off him.

That explains the 351 Ford V8, as DeTomaso had traditionally used Ford engines throughout their production range, thanks to Alessandro DeTomaso's links with Ford (the original Mangusta was sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealerships for a while Stateside).

 

351? It's the 4.6 Lincoln / Moosetang engine. 281 queuebes.

 

Oh shitbags - it's the 289? Apologies.

[Pete-M]

That explains the 351 Ford V8, as DeTomaso had traditionally used Ford engines throughout their production range, thanks to Alessandro DeTomaso's links with Ford (the original Mangusta was sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealerships for a while Stateside).

 

351? It's the 4.6 Lincoln / Moosetang engine. 281 queuebes.

 

Oh shitbags - it's the 289? Apologies.

 

289 is a 4.7 pushrod jobbie. Lincoln / Mustang lump is OHC.

 

[/pedantic mode]

[Guest]

My mate in the States would call an SN95 four six a 289.

 

Is this the two valve jobbie or the 'Cammer' thing all the drag racers got pissed off with?

 

Then again, Drew is a bit odd.

[Pete-M]

My mate in the States would call an SN95 four six a 289.

 

Is this the two valve jobbie or the 'Cammer' thing all the drag racers got pissed off with?

 

Then again, Drew is a bit odd.

 

Depends on the spec level. 2v in the Lincoln Towncar (I think) but some Moose Tangs have four valve heads.

 

Great engine, smooth, quiet, reliable, not bad on fuel for what they are, and easy to fix. Probably shit for drag racing, and they need more poke in the ZT 260.

[cort16]

These have the 4 valve heads on them. You can see the engine in one of the pictures on the epileptic cars website and it says 32 valve on the rocker covers.

[RedSparrow]

I bet these are a monumental pain in the arse. I would of course love one.