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MG and Triumph are both examples of an English sporty-car tradition that started as little more than a struggling, small volume, back-alley garage business between the wars.
From there, they both blossomed brilliantly thanks to the desperate need to export in the shattered postwar British economy, flourished to the point of near market domination in the '60s and early '70s, …