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Anyone know why the new MG was given the TF tag or are people not posting it right and it should be MGF? To me if the MG-TF is right, it should have been given something different than the letters that have been in use on the real MG-TF! Their a world apart in every respect, so why name them as such? Or, am I and a few others just confused? PJ
 
I wondered that myself.
 
They made a new MGF that followed in the footsteps of the MG RV8....and now an updated version called the MGTF. This is in addition to, of course, the old square rigger that we all knew first!

Different owners of the marque...no reason to continue proper use of the alphabet.

Now here's some trivia...

What happened to the MGD and the MGE models?
 
They were built in England? :devilgrin: :jester:
 
D and E were used as well. The MG "D" series, or "D-Type" as it was correctly referred to, was built in the early 1930's. "E" cars were the line of experimental and record cars, which were actually listed as "EX" rather than simply E. This line was continued as mostly one-offs from the 1920's, through the end of the company in 1980, and then was continued to be used by several new ownerships right into this century.
 
Well, according to John Thornton, they got all the way to Z (the MG ZA and ZB Magnettes) and decided to start again with MGA, MGB, MGC, etc.
So Rick's question, what happened to MGD and MGE isn't like asking what happened to "MG D" or "MG E". I guess they never happened, and I don't know why MG /Rover or whoever called the successor to MGF the MG TF, either!
 
OK! But,
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Oh, heck with it.
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It isn't a matter of maintaining the alphabet. The letters are a name, and a name needs to sound good. For example, the T-Series cars skipped TE because it sounds too much like "tee hee". Many other letters were skipped altogether.
 
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