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An MG TF is the WORST car money can buy...According to the internet.
Jan 1, 2025
The internet loves an overly strong opinion, but it's hard to find people who don't only have bad things to say about MG TF's. But for sub £1000, how bad can they be? Somehow I've ended up with the keys to one, which is currently for sale for £750. £750 doesn't buy you much in the taxed and tested world of motoring. So we really are at the budget end of 4 wheel fun here. So is it as bad as people reckon? Or an absolute bargain? If you can't be bothered to watch the video, I'll summarize. You won't find a more fun car sub £1000. I'd even double that budget, I wouldn't feel salty if I paid £2000 for this. It's actually really good!
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this is an absolutely terrible car and
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we know that because the internet tells
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us that mgtf are the worst car that
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money can
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buy but what if they're actually not
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that bad I doubt it I'm going to go into
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this little wrap-up review of an mgtf
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with all of the things that you see on
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the internet about how terrible these
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are firmly placed in my head so when I
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go for a driving this to go and get a
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coffee I am expecting the subframe that
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the engine sits on to fall out cuz they
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ropped a bit I'm expecting the head
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gasket to go at least twice it's
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definitely going to overheat and I
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reckon the steering on it is going to be
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terrible the brakes are going to be
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wooden and the build quality is going to
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be crap cuz that's what the internet
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tells
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us who cares I'm going to get the help
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of Google here to get some stats cuz I
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genuinely don't know anything about mgtf
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other than the fact that they're
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terrible so according to the stats cuz
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I'm all about the stats they've got 15
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16 horsepower 1.6 K series
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engine they do n to 62 in 9.2
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seconds uh what else can I tell you
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about them they make their Peak power at
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6,250 RPM they're an inline 4cylinder
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engine obviously being a K series top
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speeds 118 M hour they made the TF
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apparently from 2002 through till 2005
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that seems like 3 years too long um yeah
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it is what it is on the Bare Bones of it
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it is a 1.6 16 valve Mid Engine rear
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wheel drive soft sports car you know
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that iconic British power isn't
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everything kind of thing and weirdly at
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this angle from here it doesn't look
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that bad anyone that knows me knows that
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I have a guilty pleasure when it comes
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to cars and if you gave me any amount of
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money in the world my dream car is a
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Rover 216 GTI twin cam with a Honda
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engine because my dad had one when I was
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a kid and I loved it um and there's a
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lot of switch gear and stuff going on in
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this mg that reminds me of that so it's
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already onto a bit of a winner with
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me as you would expect from a terrible
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British sports car the interior does
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smell a little bit feisty but that
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doesn't matter cuz you're going to have
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the roof down and you can smell the
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beautiful British Countryside and and
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things it's got some quite funky looking
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mini lightish Wheels one thing that I do
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know about MGS um thanks to the joys of
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the
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too is they've got a very weird
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PCD and those Wheels would actually fit
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on my
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dedo that's not a horrendous looking car
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in a kind of cutesy little
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way I can't remember when but I've
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certainly taxed
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worse that's not bad and it also has the
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famous floppy key I love the floppy key
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this is a perfect cold Grim winter
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miserable British morning to go out for
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a drive in a soft top let's go
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mg apparently it's not got much fuel in
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it but we'll find out I'm going to I'm
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going to treat this to10 worth of fuel
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think we've covered 100 yards so far and
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everything's
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okay all right so I'm surprised about
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that over the rattly bumpy rubbish
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that's outside of our industrial estate
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it it didn't Shake itself to bits we are
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out on the open road in the
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worst, sports car in the
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world it has brakes they seem to work
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I'm quite conscious that people will see
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me in this but that's their problem
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these can't be that bad I reckon you
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could drift
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this oh no you couldn't drift it
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that is foot to the floor
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[Music]
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acceleration we got to 50 m an hour then
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with a full full bore acceleration in
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second what can I tell you immediately
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about this
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mgtf as a mode of Transport I I am okay
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at this
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point it's okay it's all right you have
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to look at this and appreciate how
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little money it is
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this is you can pick these up for sub
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th000 you could buy this car you can
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watch this video and go I want that car
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and you could buy this for
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£750 so you have to factor in that as a
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sub ,000
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purchase already this is pretty good
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people that have mx-5s and stuff will
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know that when you drive around at night
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with the roof down it's really cool and
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if you drove around in this at night
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with the roof down I think it would be
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quite
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cool I'm not sure how much I trust the
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tires it's on I'm certainly not going to
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be like flinging it down any roads but
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the steering feels okay the
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front the front doesn't really feel
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connected to the back it feels like it
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does
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this rather than
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turning but I'm not dead
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yet it's very small it hasn't overheated
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yet
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and we've covered one
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mile no one that I know has seen
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me I do like a series weirdly they
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they're quite a Revy light engine and
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they rev match really
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well this isn't that bad this is all
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right what can you buy these days for a
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grand
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nothing a good old rev
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[Laughter]
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match everyone's looking at me like that
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guy is having so much fun yeah I am I'm
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having loads of fun in a w sub ,000
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let's take it let's find the rev
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limiter
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seven so what we're saying is the Rev
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count lies and it it doesn't do 8,000
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RPM it does
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seven this is not
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bad the internet was wrong the internet
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was Mega
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wrong
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,000 you pick one of these up for a
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Grand in this short snapshot this is
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this is just as good as an MX5 oh my god
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I've said it I said
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it I said the worst thing in the world I
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said that for a grant like a thousand
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imagine the standard of MX5 that you
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could buy for £1,000 it would be a poing
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you would buy the worst MX5 in the world
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for a grand whereas you can actually buy
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a half all right
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mgtf I'm even going to treat it to some
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fuel bye right we are out into the
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countryside in the
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[Music]
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mgtf yes
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gble this thing's all
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right oh
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[Music]
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oh the handling is comedy obviously
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you've got to understand that the
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handlings comedy and drive around it I'm
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having a whale of a
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[Music]
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time it's so nice not having to care
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about a
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car currently I have traveled trouble
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three miles in this mgtf and the
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internet told me that wouldn't be
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possible so far I've covered 8 Miles in
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it and I haven't had a single
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overheating issue yet and they've not
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been particularly nice miles
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either not that bad these roads are so
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slippery at the
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[Music]
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moment something smells hot but it's not
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this send
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it yes
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yeah 7,000
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mgtf are approved they are a Vibe they
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are what they are they don't drive that
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bad people should definitely stop hating
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on
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them and like I don't want this car Paul
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doesn't want this car but if you want
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this car you can buy this car for
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750 and now we're on come on go go go
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I don't think you could buy a better car
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for 750 quid like genuinely we're not
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even scraping the barrel for 750 quid
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this thing's banging in fact not even
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even if it was double that like if I
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paid 1,500 quid for this I wouldn't
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think it was that
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[ __ ] 8 Miles now 8 miles and it's still
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in one
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piece no one has seen me as well so
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that's all
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good I have being recognized at any
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point on this mg journey of
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Discovery Wang it around here hope that
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no one's
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coming it will not drift it does not
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have the power for
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drift shift into
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drift
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yeah this ain't bad the internet is
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wrong mgfs aren
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[ __ ] they're just a little bit a little
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bit it doesn't rattle which is weird
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like where's the rattles there not
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rattles what gear is that
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in this ain't
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bad I've driven bad cars I own bad cars
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oh God I have driven and only bad cars
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does
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it no
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doesn't that would have been nice that
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would have been a nice way to end the
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video with a nice handbrake turn outside
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of the
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unit in the confines of an industrial
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estate
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[Music]
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obviously that is not a bad
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car the internet's only partially
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right I don't mind it you should buy it
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you should buy this
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car now
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