Path: utzoo!utgpu!alliant.com!UUCP Reply-To: british-cars@alliant.com Errors-To: british-cars-request@alliant.com Sender: british-cars-request@alliant.com Return-Path: droms%sol.bucknell.edu@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu Date: Sun, 4 Feb 90 20:03:19 EST From: "Ralph E. Droms" Subject: Re: mini's and MG 1100's? To: british-cars@alliant.com Message-ID: <9002050103.AA24530@sol> References: mit-eddie!vax.ftp.com!mason@EDDIE.MIT.EDU's message of Sun, 4 Feb X-Envelope-To: british-cars@Alliant.COM Newsgroups: list.british-cars Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu ... a car he can only describe as being and MG and looking like an austin america. The Austin America was a follow-on to the MG 1100. He says the 2 cars share the same drivetrain and interior. I doubt they truly share either, but I'm speaking as a former MG 1100 driver who has no real experience with Minis (although I did see a "little old lady driving one in Clearwater, FL earlier this month!). They might share a drivetrain, in the sense that both use derivatives of the same engine (the Mini included, I believe, an 849cc engine, while the MG 1100 used the 1049cc version of the Spridget engine). I doubt they share the interior; e.g., the MG 1100 has a dashboard. The MG 1100 is enough larger than a Mini - roughly the size of a VW Rabbit or Honda Civic (early model year) to be a "real" car, in which one can take as many as three adult friends (as well as oneself) for a drive. If MG had begun importing them a few years later, perhaps during one of the oil embargos of the early 70s, they might have been more of a success. Naaahhh... - Ralph