Cars
Rain? Who cares...?
This article is about the history and passion of British sportscars, specifically the iconic spiders that were invented in a country with unpredictable weather and a love for pure driving experiences.
Only in a country where the rain can arrive at any time and in a deluge of different forms, a place where you learn to live with the cold by going out in t-shirts while tourists are wrapped up in sweaters and raincoats, could they have invented the real spiders, the kind you go out in no matter what the weather man says, at times without even closing the hood (when there is one). This is an easy one, as we're talking about Great Britain, the realm of true automotive passion. A passion that places above everything else the pleasure of a real sportscar regardless of its aesthetics. Sporty, open, pure and brutal.
It's true, Great Britain is also the birthplace of the Jaguar E-Type and XKSS, Aston Martin and other luxury models, but these aren't really what the legend of the British spiders is made of. That title comes from the rudimentary Triumph TR2 and TR3, from the MG and its many different versions, from Morgans with their wooden frames (which sparked famous headlines such as the one in a specialized newspaper which read “Good news for woodworms, introducing the new Morgan”), from the AC Bristol or Ace (spiders with underpowered engines that Carrol Shelby, in the USA, transformed into the powerful Cobra) to the cute Sunbeam Alpine and many others.
