MG MGB

The MGB was the two-door sports car MG built from 1962 to 1980, first for the British Motor Corporation and later in the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland. It broke with the body-on-frame tradition of the MGA and the T-types by using a unitary structure, and it carried an enlarged 1,798 cc B-series four-cylinder engine rated at 95 hp, good for 60 mph in just over eleven seconds. The soft-top roadster was joined in 1965 by the MGB GT three-door 2+2 coupe, then by the six-cylinder MGC from 1967 to 1969 and the eight-cylinder MGB GT V8 from 1973 to 1976. It was one of the first cars with controlled crumple zones, and Rover later built about 2,000 RV8 cars in the 1990s.