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I am one of numerous M. Midget owners who regard the "New Midget" with an air of disdain. I say the "New Midget. Courtenay Edwards, the motoring correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph , calls it "the Austin Healey Sprite wearing a false moustache and dark glasses," which I feel is a much better description. A better performance it may well have over the old M. Midgets, but better quality in construction and coachwork! When the new Midgets are falling to pieces, the old ones will still be around, their bodywork as sound as ever.

The first version, announced at the end of June , [3] was essentially a slightly more expensive badge-engineered version of the MkII Austin-Healey Sprite deluxe version. The original 'frogeye' Sprite had been introduced specifically to fill the gap in the market left by the end of production of the MG T-type Midget as its replacement, the MGA had been a significantly larger and more expensive car with greater performance. Many existing MG buyers turned to the Sprite to provide a modern low-cost sports car and so a badge-engineered MG version reusing the Midget name made sense. The new Midget differed from the Sprite only in grille design, badging, improved interior trim, better instruments and added external polished trim to justify its higher price. Mechanically the car was identical to its Austin-Healey counterpart, retaining the rear suspension using quarter-elliptic leaf springs and trailing arms from the 'frogeye'.

Aimed mostly at new Midget owners who have at least a little experience with cars in general, and want to get their cars up and running quickly. If I had had all of this information in one spot when I started my project it would have saved me quite a bit of time. I am going to try and keep the answers short rather then go into long explanations.