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News : MG unveils CS SUV Concept at Auto Shanghai

Keith Adams — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:50:01 +0000

The arrival of the MG CS Concept is tangible evidence that SAIC Motor has serious global plans for the British marque. It’s a concept that hints at the next-generation model to be released by the company – and, although there’s no indication if it will go on sale in the UK, the Chinese company has [...]

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News : European spec MG3 shown at Auto Shanghai

Keith Adams — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:10:12 +0000

MG unveiled the European version of the MG3 supermini. It’s said to be inspired by the MG Zero concept car, although it’s little more than a light refresh of the original MG3, which was unveiled at the 2010 Beijing auto show. Both the original and the latest Euro MG3 are the work of the design [...]

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News : MG Motor UK goes for Burton

Clive Goldthorp — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:36:26 +0000

Clive Goldthorp MG Motor UK Limited’s new Head of Sales and Franchise, Sam Burton (pictured left), started in post today. The company has not, as yet, issued a formal Press Release about the appointment but Mr. Burton, who was Subaru UK Limited’s Sales Director between October, 2008 and May, 2012, has already updated his LinkedIn profile with [...]

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News : UK-specification MG3 spotted in Birmingham

Keith Adams — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:27:30 +0000

Keith Adams The UK-specification MG3, which has yet to break cover, has been spotted wearing its camouflage by Austin Memories creator, John Baker. It appears to be heading back to the Longbridge factory following a bout of on-road testing. It takes a keen spotter to notice the new body-side moulding (below), tailgate spoiler, and larger [...]

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News : SAIC posts a record 2012

Keith Adams — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:36:38 +0000

MG Motor UK’s parent company, SAIC Motor, has enjoyed a record year of production, with 4.49 million vehicles sold in 2012. The company is now China’s largest car company, and the eighth largest in the world. These numbers make an interesting comparison with the 782 MGs sold in the UK during the same period. Last [...]

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News : MG6 BTCC Edition goes on sale

Keith Adams — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:31:31 +0000

MG Motor UK is spicing-up the appeal of its slow-selling ’6 with the arrival of the new BTCC Edition in the run-up of its diesel powered mid-range saloon and hatchback, scheduled to hit the dealers in March. The BTCC goes on sale for £16,995. The car, which gets a sharper look to celebrate the marque’s [...]

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News : MG3 will be assembled in the UK

Keith Adams — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:45:55 +0000

Keith Adams The UK-designed and engineered MG3 will be assembled at Longbridge in an arrangement that mirrors production of its bigger brother, the MG6. A source close to the factory has confirmed to AROnline that the supermini, which has been on sale in China and in left-hand drive markets around the world since 2011, will [...]

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News : Plato finishes third in BTCC at Brands Hatch

Clive Goldthorp — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:36:07 +0000

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: BTCC Media Office The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) headed to the legendary 2.43 mile Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit in Kent last weekend for the final three rounds of the 2012 campaign with the two MG KX Momentum Racing MG6 GTs sporting an all-new race livery in aid of Cancer [...]

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News : MG Motor UK posts increasing losses in 2011

Keith Adams — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:32:48 +0000

MG Motor UK’s Longbridge operation has lost £4.6m during 2011, deepening of the financial deficit of £392,000 posted in 2010. The disappointing performance follows a year of poor MG6 sales – which, the company warns, won’t improve until the arrival of the turbodiesel ’6, B-segment MG3 and C-segment MG5. This time last year MG Motor [...]

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News : Plato closes BTCC points gap at Silverstone

Clive Goldthorp — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:26:01 +0000

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: BTCC Media Office A massive 30,000-crowd witnessed three dramatic Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) races at the ‘Home of British Motor Racing’ last weekend with a 24-car field – the biggest of the year to date - taking to the famous Silverstone venue’s 1.64 mile National circuit for the penultimate [...]

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Essays : The bitter sting in the TF tail

admin — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:16:31 +0000

Simon Brown tells the unfortunate story of his fault-prone, badly-built TF and MG’s resolute inability to honour its warranty. My MG TF was number 790 built 20 May 2009. I had seen it sitting in the Dealers for about a year before I bought it (they registered it 14 May 2010). In Racing Green Metalic [...]

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News : Plato’s podium hat-trick at Rockingham

Clive Goldthorp — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:18:28 +0000

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: BTCC Media Office A 20-car Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) grid rolled into Northamptonshire’s Rockingham Motor Speedway last weekend for Rounds 22, 23 and 24 of the Championship with points leader, Matt Neal, suffering from a fractured metacarpal, dislocated thumb and forefinger injuries sustained in a recent motorcycle accident and [...]

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News : New MG styling chief breezes in from Nissan

Keith Adams — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:50:01 +0000

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) said it has appointed former Nissan designer Martin Uhlarik as head of its European design centre. SAIC also said it is investing £1.5m ($2.42m, €1.9m) to double the size of the studio in Longbridge. Canadian-born Uhlarik, 41, replaces British designer Tony Williams-Kenny, who was appointed global design director at SAIC’s [...]

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News : MG launches Approved Used Programme

Keith Adams — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:46:39 +0000

MG Motor UK is launching its Approved Used Car Programme with a comprehensive range of benefits for customers, including a 130 point check on every car. Currently, MG is only extending the scheme to the MG6 (and not the TF), which are being offered by MG Dealers at prices starting from £9995. Customers will also benefit [...]

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News : Plato’s BTCC title hopes take a knock at Knockhill

Clive Goldthorp — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:14:02 +0000

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: BTCC Media Office A slightly-depleted field of 19 entries headed up to Knockhill, near Dunfermline for the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship’s (BTCC) twentieth annual Scottish foray last weekend. MG KX Momentum Racing’s Jason Plato went into the meeting with a record eight BTCC victories at the challenging and tight, 1.3 [...]

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News : Plato still third in the BTCC after Snetterton

Clive Goldthorp — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:58:25 +0000

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: BTCC Media Office MG KX Momentum Racing and the other Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) teams took to the track at a sunny Snetterton again last weekend after an Olympics-extended, seven week summer break. However, after a weekend during which the BTCC standings at times resembled a game of [...]

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Essays: The MGB – The ultimate starter classic sports car?

Mike Humble — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:18:27 +0000

Even though it’s celebrating a half-century, the MGB is still a common sight if you look hard enough. Syd Enever’s answer to affordable sports car motoring sold in colossal numbers with well over 500.000 units trundling out of the South Oxfordshire plant in Abingdon before the sad and well-publicised factory shutdown in 1980. The smaller [...]

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News : A talk and a tour at MG Birmingham…

Clive Goldthorp — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:10:09 +0000

AROnline last visited SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre Limited (SMTC UK) for the opening of the UK Design Centre back in June, 2010. However, since then, the company has continued to develop the Longbridge-based site and so our Contributing Editor, Clive Goldthorp, was pleased to accept a recent invitation from the Managing Director of SMTC UK and Vice-President [...]

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News : Plato takes his 70th BTCC victory at Croft

Clive Goldthorp — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:15:11 +0000

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: BTCC Media Office MG KX Momentum Racing’s Jason Plato took his 70th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) win in Round 15 of this season’s campaign at Croft in North Yorkshire last weekend and so held on to third place in the Drivers’ Championship. However, victories for the Honda Yuasa Racing Team’s [...]

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Blog : In the MG world, the Chinese understand Britishness better

Jack Yan — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:02:54 +0000

Jack Yan Take a car range that’s not selling too well, and try to pull the patriotic heart-strings to see if you can move a few. Trouble is, this advert for the MG 6 Magnette, which is running on some of our sites, is pretty awful. It’s not convincing, for starters. Brand Germany has its [...]

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