MG returned to Bonneville in 1998 with great hopes of eclipsing the speed records set in 1959 by MG record-breaker EX181, which had achieved 254.91 mph with American Phil Hill at the wheel. Mechanical woes kept the car and driver Andy Green from turning a wheel in anger. Sadly, it was not to be.

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MG returned to Bonneville in 1998 with great hopes of eclipsing the speed records set in 1959 by MG record-breaker EX181, which had achieved 254.91 mph with American Phil Hill at the wheel. Mechanical woes kept the car and driver Andy Green from turning a wheel in anger. Sadly, it was not to be.
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