If something at a lower price point doesn't work, then it's very expensive.............So if the Suplex kit costs you 812 quid and it doesn't work then your a damned side poorer and you still have a broken car........not a good result and a total waste of time & money..
But if, for an extra 488 quid you have a car that works.........then that strikes me as better value.
Now I know you can buy some damned awful Shitroen hatchback, some hideous Poxhall shopping trolley, or some boring a batshit Korean automotive whitegoods for less than the market value plus repair costs............but these items have no soul or character............something the MGF has in spades.
They'll also drop resale value quicker than a stone, at least one day your MGF will be worth something as a classic, none of that other crap will be.
Our cars are worth much more than the market value............They give us enjoyment, some colour in a dull grey automotive landscape, they offer us rewards beyond their going price and as such they're worth more than mere money!
Look at the Triumph TR-7, it was an orphan in the second hand market, no one would give you tuppence for one, they were stacked ten deep at the scappies.........but now they're starting to come into their own, values are nudging up, and there are already previous owners regretting, unloading or scrapping them.
Has the MGF hit the bottom of the market yet, I think it pretty well probably has, I suspect it will now sit stagnant for a while, and then start to make modest gains, slowly gathering momentum, until the penny drops with the buying public and they start elbowing each other out of the way to get one.
And then those of us who stood by our cars through the dark years will have a smug smile on our faces that couldn't be knocked of with a bloody 10lb sledge hammer!
I know I'm getting that smug felling with my TR-7!