The MG M-type is a 2-door Roadster / Coupe from British Motor Corporation, built from 1929 to 1932, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. Under the bonnet: gasoline engine.
The story
The MG M-type (also known as the MG Midget) is a sports car that was produced by MG Cars from April 1929 until 1932. It was sometimes referred to as the 8/33. Launched at the 1928 London Motor Show when sales of larger MG saloons was faltering due to the economic climate, the small car brought MG ownership to a new sector of the market and probably saved the company. Early cars were made in the Cowley factory, but from 1930, production had transferred to Abingdon.
What is underneath
Power comes from gasoline engine. It weighs 505 kg. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the none; its successor was the MG J-type; assembly was at Cowley, Oxford, England. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lancia type Dilambda torpedo, the Bugatti Type 35 B, the Fiat 514 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the British Motor Corporation catalogue sit the Austin 10 and the Austin 12.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the MG M-type has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.