Can't fault my GT - been a daily driver for the last 20mths and doing 250-300 miles a week. Pretty easy to work on, and most parts are dirt cheap.Replaced my Vx Corsa which was a right bugger to do anything with - too much plastic shite covering everything. Changing the £5 fan belt involved removing wheel, inner wing, airbox, airflow meter and engine mounts - that was the last straw.....
But like Lugger you are missing the point. A modern car having far more facilities and way greater performance is inevitably more complicated for roadside maintenance. But the point is that it doesnt need such maintenance - reliability is in a different universe to oldies like MGBs. My Lotus Elise ( remember Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious) was over 7 years the most reliable sports car I have had never once needing anything doing to it. OK it had the Toyota engine not the Rover one.
My wife's Smart Roadster, sadly sold this week after 18 year ownership had only one problem in our ownership - the Bosch crankshaft position sensor earlier this year.
Neither of these cars had spare wheels because modern tyres are so much more puncture resistant. Never a puncture in either of them.
