"Not a sports car any stretch of the definition"?
What kind of pig-ignorant mouth noise is that?
It is the definitional example. The MG-TC is the type specimen of sports cars. All other sports cars are shadows cast on the cave wall by the TC.
That's the sportsest sports car that ever sportsed!
To this day I remember the time I parked my Porsche 924S next to an original gangsta TC in the parking lot of the Blockbuster in Midtown ATL and just sat there and swooned over it until the owner came out.
Hand to God, he had stringback gloves. A flat cap, too. Dude had the Official MG-TC Uniform!
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