2001 MGF Freestyle SE: The Freestyle was essentially a “watered-down” MGF Trophy and came in all formats including the stepspeed. What it lacked was the Trophy 160 engine. It came in five colours – Tahiti Blue, Platinum Silver, Solar Red, British Racing Green and Anthracite.
It featured 16 inch multispoke alloys and Trophy front and rear spoilers, chrome tailpipes, black leather trim and a CD player. There were options of ABS on the 1.8i, passenger airbag, a body colour hardtop and metallic/pearlescent paint finishes.
A handful of Platinum silver models were sold in France with an Ebony Oxford Leather interior.
A total of 680 Freestyles were produced.
Details:-
The Freestyle SE was built between 08/10/2001 and 04/12/2001 the last day of MGF production. No external badging or identification but they do have the same body as the late Trophy 160s
Types:-
444 were 118bhp MPIs; 93 118bhp cvt steptronics; and 143 VVCs
650 were produced with PUU Black leather but 30 French cars had different interiors, unusual for an SE model. 15 in MNX had PVB Ebony Black Oxford leather and 15 more had SMS Alpaca Beige and Black Oxford leather, surprisingly all were mpi versions, often a higher trim level would be found on the vvc versions.
Colour Distribution:-
LQW Anthracite pearlescent 129 cars – 80mpi’s, 18 steptronics and 31 vvc’s
HFF British Racing Green pearlescent 106 cars – 73 mpi’s, 14 steptronics and 19 vvc’s
MNX Platinum Silver metallic 237 cars – 162 mpi’s, 29 steptronics and 46 vvc’s
CMU Solar Red 83 cars – 53 mpi’s, 12 steptronics and 18 vvc’s
JRJ Tahiti Blue 125 cars – 76 mpi’s, 20 steptronics and 29 vvc’s
Country Distribution:-
France 30 cars HFF & MNX
Germany 7 cars no MNX
Great Britain 635 all five colours
Guernsey 1 MNX
South Africa 7 cars HFF JRJ and MNX