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The MG Metro 6R4 was a paradox-a fire-breathing rally monster born from Britain's smallest city car. Conceived at the height of the 1980s Group B era, it was built not in Italy or Germany but in Longbridge and Didcot, where Austin Rover's engineers and the genius minds at Williams Grand Prix Engineering dared to create something extraordinary. Mad Genius: The MG Metro 6R4 Story tells the complete, unvarnished history of this improbable machine: from its origins in the ashes of British Leyland to its glory on the RAC Rally and its survival long after Group B was banned. It traces the car's technical evolution, its trials and triumphs, the men who built it, and the drivers who tamed it-none more so than Tony Pond, the cool-headed daredevil who embodied its spirit. This is a chronicle of obsession, resilience, and British engineering audacity. From factory corridors to forest stages, from testing grounds to collector garages, the MG Metro 6R4's story reveals how one ""mad"" idea became one of motorsport's most enduring legends-a symbol of what happens when passion outweighs logic and genius refuses to compromise.

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