Classic Car Hire in Yorkshire by Reflections

The MGA classic sports car series, one of which is for hire in Yorkshire by Reflections Classic Car Hire, began life in 1955 and was manufactured through to 1962. The British Motor Company, of which MG was an arm, sold 101,081 of the cars during the twelve year period, mostly overseas (5869 were sold in Britain), which, by percentage, is Britain's best ever selling car oversees and is testament to MGA's popularity as a sports car.

Like other sports cars of this era, such as the E-Type Jaguars that we also hire, the MGA's design was a significant styling break from other vehicles that were sill very much of the bygone war years, the MG T Series cars for instance.

The MGA sports car was brought to the public eye at its launch during the Frankfurst Motor Show, Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA), of 1955. The design of the MGA evolved from George Philips' car in the 1952 Le Man, 24 hour race, the MG TD, which had some forward thinking mechanical gadgetry but was not aerodynamic in any way and still looked like a World War II relic.

Sales were beginning to fall for MG cars, possibly because they looked so out of date, which caused the BMC Chairman, Leonard Lord, to backtrack on an earlier decisions where he rejected a new design put forward to him as the UA-series. The newly named MG'A', to mark the start of a new series of cars, was born through a time of flagging sales and a want for something new, which is exactly what everyone got - a new sleeker design was aided by a new lower profile engine, the BMC corporate B-Series.

So, through the MGA classic sports car that we now hire in Yorkshire, the MG cars no longer looked like they were built in a museum from the previous decade and their new look and engine brought the modern sports car speeding along the final straight of the 1950s and roaring into the 60s!   back to our MGA for hire in yorkshire