>>28605550
Probably not enough sales to justify a Roadster; they only made 2,500 V8's, most likely due to it being released during the oil crisis and the start of the rubber bumper era. The dumbest decision was engineering the MGC, and not just using the Rover V8 from the get go, *especially* considering that the 'B was already designed to accommodate a V engine. I reckon if they didn't faff about re-engineering the 'B for the C-Series, they would have had WAY stronger sales with the V8 and would have also offered a roadster version, as they did with the 'C.