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Is an MG TF a bargain British sports car, or a one way ticket to disaster, lets find out! Part 1
Jan 1, 2025
In the pursuit to find the darkest corners of the automotive world, somehow we've ended up with an MG TF instead of a V8 Porsche.
A wise man says once you shift your life focus from material goods and focus on experience, it doesn't need to cost a lot to have fun. So with the absolute bargain basement of mid engine, RWD soft-sports cars at our disposal, is this MG TF the most fun you can have for under a grand?
There's only one way to find out...And it's going to involve some skids and coffee with Paul in the next episode of "divorces on driveways."
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yeah t-shirt it's t-shirt weather going
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on about it's 6: a.m. we are on a
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Pursuit today to get rid of the ginger
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Porsche uh we've met well we haven't I
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met him once and it was under terrible
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circumstances somebody's decided that
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they want to buy the Porsche and they
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absolutely love it and we're now on a
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mission to find out whether money can
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buy happiness because we are taking an
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mg TF an mgtf in chop against an orange
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Porsche and we're going to go and drive
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it and see if
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it if expensive cars are
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better but let me tell you that is how
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not to toe oh you join us for our our
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fourth stop at weather be in a
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week we live here and we are in love
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with katsu curry uh we're not going to
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have that for breakfast I think I'm
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going to get a bacon sandwich um and
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then we're going to carry on going to
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deliver the poral across bye my eyes are
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dry should we get a
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pet should we get a pet we would have
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custody when it inevitably goes wrong if
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I hold this here like this do you reckon
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it will pick up on both of us or none of
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us none of
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us fck are we going look at that extra
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narrow route the extra narrow route I
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think they're plain spotters they yeah
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look they are what's what's what are
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they
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spotting oh helicopters
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anyway we are currently on the extra
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narrow extra jiggly route on our way to
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offload the
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Porsche and uh pick up an
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mgtf the decisions were made poorly
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poorly so what happened was uh the we
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advertised the Porsche immediately
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there's an immediate immediate request
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to sell the Porsche the Porsche had
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started ran driven been faultless
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for before it left France and after it
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left France a very nice man came to have
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a look at it and Paul started it up that
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morning to show our our one armed friend
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Steve and it was perfect and then the
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guy came like a 4-Hour trip to look at
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the Porsche and it wouldn't
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start it started no
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more we we both spent time trying trying
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to get it to start and and scratched our
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heads and realized that that's not
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really our forte in life but the guy
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liked it so much he bought it anyway and
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we are picking up an mgtf off him yes
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which we know nothing about I'm already
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trying to sell it as my
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challenge
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so I'm
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rambling that's what's
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happening we have arrived to drop
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off Le
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Porsche bye-bye Porsche it has been
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emotional Porsche is offloaded so let me
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introduce you to the mystery car and no
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it's not that S2000 it's much better
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than that it's an
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[Music]
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mgtf they do know how to build a road
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okay things have escalated quickly uh
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mgtf is on the back I don't know why
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probably the time of year every time we
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go to get anything it's raining and
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terrible at the moment however we've got
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a car with servicing history there's
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multiple there's there's folders and
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looms of looms re reels there's lots of
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paperwork for this
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mgtf
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um it's a car it exists it's got four
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tires four wheels it's got one key it's
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started it loaded onto the trailer that
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is enough for us so on the next episode
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of crazy that happens
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what are we going to do let's drive it
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let's drive it dve well I think we're
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going to drive it and we're going to
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we're going to see if money does buy
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happiness and whether you can have as
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much fun in a cheap terrible car as you
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can in an expensive car um then we're
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going to try and sell it and recoup some
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some funds yeah definitely let's do that
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all right we have arrived at weatherbe
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services and now that we are at
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weatherbe services that means that we
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can have our new favorite thing uh Paul
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and I have discovered that we have a
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undying love for pumpkin katsu curry and
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it will be the fourth time this week
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that we have stopped at weatherbe
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services to have katsu curry uh but
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first should we have a look at this mg
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so one of the things that we were mildly
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worried about is it doesn't actually fit
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and
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it so far it's undented it is undented
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at this point great news Paul the boots
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not dented really really
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it's got these fake mini light type
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Wheels it's many shades of
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silver it's Rusty in certain places it's
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definitely had a
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life it was an mg but even that's
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faded nice scuffs down there
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however I quite like it
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we're going to go and get some katsu
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curry now and then we're going to go
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back to the
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mg I might I'm going to include the
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katsu in the F in the in the in the blog
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the blog blogging it's not a bad thing
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to watch you we so we have discovered
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the Chow Asian Kitchen and their amazing
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pumpkin katsu which
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um is the greatest
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lunge it's good it's good news the alarm
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does work apparently great
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news there we go turns out the alarm
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does work uh great news we have arrived
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back at headquarters now with the silver
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mg um
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oh should we see if it starts and stuff
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and then we're going to eject it off of
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the trailer abandon it outside and we're
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all going to go home um it's got a
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lovely
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knob stuff in there
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oh double cup holder that's going to
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come in handy
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