Frontline MGA review

Quoting a price is a tricky thing for a Frontline. These are such individual cars, and you could lavish one in options or keep it stripped out for high-days and hillclimbs. Let’s be frank: £140k plus tax and donor car for an MGA is a 0 per cent head and 100 per cent heart purchase.

It’s going to be bought by someone who simply adores the idea and will accept nothing less than a brand-new, built-to-their-exacting-spec MGA. The idea that it’s ‘the same money as a pucker 911 or AMG GT’ is fanciful – no-one’s likely to be cross-shopping the two.

And yet, in some ways it’s a bargain. 

How so?

Because the Frontline is classed as a modified car (despite retaining only fragments of the original) it’s tax-exempt. You qualify for classic car insurance. You’ll still have to get an MOT because despite being ‘of age’ to be exempt, the car has of course been extensively modified.

But your bombproof Japanese engine and driveline shouldn’t give cause for concern. You’ll probably get 40 miles per gallon on a cruise. And the company behind it all has three decades and 2,000+ cars’ worth of experience in making old MGs new again.