NewClassic post=18.72475.763857 said:
As to being on topic:
If the first one is Rise of the Machines, what would the sequel be called?
Vengeance of the Machines, perhaps?
NewClassic post=18.72475.764330 said:
Also, good choice on TVR, they're such nice cars.
TVR is probably my favourite car marque, aside from the obvious choices of Ferrari, Jaguar and Aston Martin. Their cars were furiously fast, incredibly raucous and completely insane. They'd try to chuck you into a tree and had no airbags, but that was the thing about them. They were cars for Real Men. You needed muscles to keep them on the road, and they were completely unsubtle. But they were pitched at a part of the market dominated by Porsche, and that never ends well for the underdog, considering that Porsche is rightfully respected throughout the entire automotive world, not least for its multiple successes at Le Mans.
There is, however, a marque whose demise upsets me more than that of TVR. That marque would be MG. Using the same engines as the rest of the British car industry, but managing to make sports cars which were reliable far past other British vehicles, they showed what could be done when bureaucracy didn't ensnare them from their ambitions. Their MG B model was a revelation at the time of its release, beating about 90% of the other cars on the road at the time, but doing it at an affordable price. They even competed in Le Mans, three successive times in three years, entering only one car each time with the same specifications, and not only managing to finish every single time (a record which is impressive by any car manufacturer's standard), but managing to even win in its class, beating more powerful cars in the process, by using the MG B's reliability in its favour.
There was a company which never deserved the raw deal it got after the collapse of the rest of the British Motor Corporation, that never deserved the indignity of failure when MG Rover went down the toilet. It deserved proper management which would maintain that spirit of a sports car for the people, giving some competition to Honda's MX-5 model. It happened with Lotus - now let's see whether SAIC can defy expectations. I hope so.