The MGA truly marked a revolution in MG sports car design with its appearance quite unlike any previous production car from the celebrated British marque. Entering production in the summer of 1955 it broke with the timehonoured tradition of narrowgutted flatsides upright styling with the distinctive large grille exposed headlamps separate wings and sharply cutoff tail that had serviced the majority of MG sports cars for well over thirty years. Many diehard MG enthusiasts of the time were un