Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics MG Motor UK Limited’s works British Touring Car Championship team, MG KX Momentum Racing, was officially launched at MG Birmingham yesterday. Guy Jones, the company’s Sales and Marketing Director, geniunely believes that he has assembled a ‘Dream Team’ and those present were left in no doubt that the [...]

MG Motor UK has announced a new finance package for the MG6 series, finally moving closer to a competitive deal for many buyers. The offer, which runs until 31 March 2012, bundles a low deposit and a low 3.7% APR together with a five-year deal, to place the MG6 GT S at £249/month. In combination [...]

ADAM SLOMAN The new medium-sized MG has been unveiled, camouflage free, in these Chinese spy-shots showcased on China Car Times. The MG5 is set for launch in China in early March, with engines likely to include the new small engine 1.5-litre engine in both naturally aspirated and turbo forms, the 1.8-litre TCI-tech and the as-yet [...]

Keith Adams The innovative new De Tomaso Deauville – last shown at the Geneva Motor Show in 2011 – is off to China, after a protracted fight by its maker to keep the project on track in Italy. The car, which is an interesting high-bodied fastback designed for versatility mooted for an annual production run [...]

Mike Humble on the continuing series of iconic cars that once littered the highways and by-ways of the UK. There was nothing exotic or high tech here with our very own MG Metro, but it really caught the imagination of a buying generation. It might not have been the fastest, or the coolest, hot hatch [...]

Keith Adams Well, here we are a year on from the build-up of the UK ‘launch’ of the MG6, and how things look different 12 months on. Back in the late months of 2010, and following months, nay, years of MG and Longbridge inactivity and a Chinese Wall of secrecy from the overlords at SAIC, [...]

WORK on a new MG sports car was a running theme within Austin Rover and the Rover from 1984 onwards. The success of the MG “M” models had kept the flame of the Octagon alive, but what people wanted – and what market researchers repeatedly told the company was that the public wanted – was [...]

These days it’s hard to imagine the police zipping around in a two-seater sports car, but from the 1930s through to the 1960s, some of them did just that. Today’s MG-driving policemen are more likely to find themselves at the wheel of an estate car… MGA 1962 MGA operated by the Lancashire Traffic Section. MGB [...]

Ask anyone with even the most cursory knowledge of classics to name their favourite cars, and you can guarantee that the MG name will come up time and time again. Keith Adams takes a short tour through the history of this great marque… A potted history DESPITE being one of the most recognised marques on [...]

Words / Photo: Mike Humble    A short while ago, we ran a feature about Sterling Automotive, an MG Rover specialist in Eastbourne who fairly recently added an MG franchise to their existing business. Patrick Warner and his team run an all makes servicing and repair centre on the outskirts of the town, with an MG showroom in [...]

Words: Martin Williamson Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics Brit-Cars.com Contributor, Martin Williamson, has now done over 1000 miles in his new car and reckons it’s time to dispel a few myths about the MG6. The closure of Longbridge in 2005 meant that I and, no doubt, many other enthusiasts, had to wait with bated breath and [...]

The UK’s leading consumer motoring titles do not seem to have given much, if any, coverage to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to MG Birmingham last Sunday. Indeed, Dave Leggett, Managing Editor of authoritative Automotive Industry website just-auto.com, seems to be the only commentator to have fully understood the visit’s real significance… Three things seemed [...]

Christina Savvas, Birmingham Post, 27 June 2011 Birmingham’s car manufacturing industry received a huge boost when China’s Premier Wen Jiabao visited the MG plant in Longbridge on Sunday. Mr. Wen launched the new MG6 Magnette model at the factory owned by the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation – one of his country’s most high-profile British investments. [...]

Nick Gibbs, Automotive News Europe, 1 June 2011 The Chinese owners of the UK’s MG sports car brand plan to invest heavily and launch new models to grow MG around the world, with Europe being the main target market. Shanghai-based parent, SAIC Motor Corp, owner of MG Motor UK, has already spent £1billion in resurrecting [...]

Clive Goldthorp MG Motor UK Limited’s latest round of MG6 VIP Track Drives were not the only activity which the company was organising at Prodrive’s Test Track in Kenilworth this week. A select group of Dealer representatives and Motoring Journalists were invited to attend a Customer Clinic for the MG3 supermini. The MG3, which went [...]

Clive Goldthorp MG Motor UK Limited and the MG Dealer Network have now had time to reflect upon the British public’s initial response to the Dealer Launch of the MG6 GT on 14 May 2011. Doug Wallace, the company’s Public Relations Manager, spoke to Enda Mullen of the Birmingham Post last week and said that: ‘Feedback has [...]

Adam Sloman MG Motor UK has today announced that, from now on in the UK, the MG6 Fastback will be referred to officially as the MG6 GT. A notice posted on the company’s Facebook and Twitter pages stated: ‘You may think that you know everything there is to know about the MG6 but we have one [...]

Keith Adams SAIC Motor unveiled the MG Concept 5 at Auto Shanghai 2011 this week and, in so doing, revealed the central and probably most significant piece in the MG jigsaw to the world. You can be sure that the production version, the MG5, will be on sale in China within a year or so and [...]

Keeping the brand alive : a Sterling good job   Many garages claim to be a specialist in a particular field, few actually manage to tick all the right boxes, while many often disappoint. AROnline explains how one man’s vision mushroomed into a genuine ‘One Stop Shop’ for the MG and Rover brands.   Words and Photographs: Mike Humble   [...]

Words and Photographs: Headline Auto  Among the visitors to Auto Shanghai was a group of UK -based MG Dealers who were in the city as guests of  SAIC Motor and they were given the low-down on the marque’s product plans for the next five years.  Central to that was the launch at the show of the MG [...]