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 [...]

Words: Keith Adams Photographs: Adam Sloman   I always remember feeling a slight sense of hope and optimism when NAC MG announced that it was going to start building cars in Oklahoma, USA. The announcement came in 2007 and, although little concrete news followed, I hoped, prayed and wished for a return to the colonies for [...]

David Bailey, Birmingham Post The first MG6 rolled off the production line at Longbridge yesterday, six years to the week since MG Rover collapsed into administration. It was a highly symbolic moment as so far just a few hundred MGTFs have been assembled at Longbridge and the start of MG6 production marks a significant step up in [...]

Clive Goldthorp The first customer-ready MG6 Fastback rolled off the production line at MG Birmingham yesterday and, as MG Motor UK Limited’s Dealers collected their first Demonstrators in an special mass ‘Driveaway’ event today, AROnline reckoned that now was as good a time as any to canvass the opinion of the Dealer Network on the MG6. However, given [...]

Richard Kilpatrick The lack of cars had started to gnaw away at me since sending the dearly detested C6 back to Citroën and getting possibly the most wonderful, forgettable car in return – a C3, which I suspect, I’d have trouble drawing if I wasn’t actually looking at it, let alone become emotionally attached to it). My [...]

Words: Keith Adams Photographs: Mark Gibson/Slant 4 Marketing Production of the MG6 is now underway at MG Motor UK Limited’s Birmingham factory in Longbridge, almost six years to the day since the Administrators were called in at MG Rover Group Limited. This represents an important new phase in MG Motor UK’s development - since SAIC Motor Corporation [...]

Keith Adams  These images posted on auto.sina should leave AROnline readers in no doubt that SAIC Motor’s rapid development of the MG and Roewe  marques shows no sign of slowing. Despite the warmed over Rover 75 only being four years old, its replacement looks to be in the latter stages of development – and it’s clearly [...]

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics AROnline’s Editor, Keith Adams, has already given readers his First Drive impressions of the new MG6 1.8T TSE and, like our colleagues at Autocar, Auto Express and CAR Magazine, he concluded that ‘it’s rather good, with one or two rough edges.’ However, Keith was keen to give readers [...]

Adam Sloman The MG3′s launch is looming in China as the media get to grips with the follow up to the MG ZR. The build up to the Chinese launch of the MG3 continues with the car coming under the scrutiny of the local motoring press. Small MGs have always been popular, with the Metro [...]

Words and Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics This year’s MG International Show at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire last Sunday featured the usual mix of Owners’ Club stands and an MG-biased autojumble sale. The first chance to meet friends from the clubs around the country and from across Europe in 2011 was, as usual, an added bonus. [...]

Words: Adam Sloman Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics   After seemingly endless delays, it appears MG is finally back, with firm intentions to stay.   Hosted by Sales and Marketing Director Guy Jones, the day combined an outline of MG Motor UK’s strategy for the marque’s return to the UK market with a whistle-stop tour of the newly [...]

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics The Media Briefing which MG Motor UK Limited hosted at the MG Birmingham site last Tuesday provided the 30 or so Journalists in attendance with hard evidence that the countdown to the long-awaited UK launch of the MG6 Fastback and Saloon has now begun in earnest. The company’s Sales and [...]

Keith Adams  MG Motor UK has today unveiled its new corporate logo as well as a fresh new website to support the UK launch of the MG6 this spring. The new website has yet to confirm pricing for the new car, although it has revealed specification and warranty details. The rebranding exercise is said to be costing MG [...]

MG Motor UK Limited’s parent company, SAIC Motor Corporation Limited, posted some impressive sales figures in 2010. Total year end vehicle sales have now been confimed at 3.58m units – up 31.5% on 2009 and a new record. Passenger car sales alone totalled just under 2.28m units and increased nearly 42% on the previous year [...]