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News : Plato still third in the BTCC after Snetterton
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 [...]
August 14, 2012
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Clive Goldthorp · 
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Essays: The MGB – The ultimate starter classic sports car?
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 [...]
August 11, 2012
· Mike Humble · 25 Comments
News : A talk and a tour at MG Birmingham…
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 [...]
August 3, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · 24 Comments
News : Plato takes his 70th BTCC victory at Croft
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 [...]
June 26, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · One Comment
Blog : In the MG world, the Chinese understand Britishness better
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 [...]
June 20, 2012
· Jack Yan · 17 Comments
News : Plato relinquishes BTCC lead at Oulton Park
Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship took to the track again at Oulton Park in Cheshire last weekend after a six week break. MG KX Momentum Racing’s drivers, Jason Plato and Andy Neate, had given the two MG6 GTs their first proper test at Rockingham during that [...]
June 12, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · 3 Comments
Blog : MG Motor UK – The US perspective
Sometimes it’s good to get an alternative perspective about things we’re familiar with – and this Car & Driver blog makes rather uncomfortable reading for anyone feeling positive towards the MG6. We’ll let you make up your own minds. Inside the New Chinese-Owned MG Motor Co. In the town of Longbridge, just outside of Birmingham [...]
May 12, 2012
· Keith Adams · 87 Comments
News : Plato still on top in the BTCC after Thruxton
Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: BTCC Media Office The combination of the UK’s fastest race circuit and what ITV4 Commentator and former Champion, Tim Harvey, described as ‘absolutely atrocious’ conditions ensured that this weekend’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship meeting at Thruxton in Hampshire was an eventful one. MG KX Momentum Racing’s Jason Plato was [...]
April 29, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · 8 Comments
News : BTCC MGs – views from the Craner Curves
Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics Last weekend’s BTCC Meeting at Donington Park provided AROnline with the opportunity to undertake some initial research into the impact which the launch of MG KX Momentum Racing has had on the British public’s awareness of the MG marque. AROnline interviewed a total of nine spectators – most of whom had already [...]
April 20, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · 9 Comments
News : Plato retains BTCC lead at Donington Park
Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rolled into Donington Park for Rounds Four, Five and Six last weekend and, after three action-packed races, MG KX Momentum Racing’s Jason Plato retained his Championship lead – he left the East Midlands track with 84 points while Honda Civic-driving Matt Neal and Andrew Jordan [...]
April 18, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · 6 Comments
News : Plato races into BTCC lead at Brands Hatch!
Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: BTCC Media Office Jason Plato and the Triple Eight Race Engineering-run MG KX Momentum Racing MG6 GT scored what ITV4′s new Race Commentator, Toby Moody, described as an ‘unbelievable’ win in the third British Touring Car Championship round at Brands Hatch this afternoon and, as a result, head into the next [...]
April 1, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · 44 Comments
News : MG KX Momentum Racing – on track, on time at Silverstone
Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics MG KX Momentum Racing’s nascent 2012 British Touring Car Championship campaign took two significant steps forward at Silverstone yesterday: a just-completed, Triple Eight Race Engineering-built NGTC MG6 GT hit the track for the first time and MG Motor UK announced that, following the recent news about the two [...]
March 20, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · 20 Comments
News : MG5 Official Pictures unveiled by Autocar
Words: Adam Sloman Pictures: Autocar/MG UK weekly car magazine Autocar has unveiled these official images of the forthcoming MG5 in its latest issue and online. The MG5 is due for launch imminently in China, with Autocar suggesting we can expect the hatchback here in the UK in 2013, though currently it’s unclear which will arrive [...]
March 9, 2012
· Adam Sloman · 78 Comments
News : MG Motor UK – brand-building set to gain momentum at Brands Hatch
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 [...]
January 31, 2012
· Keith Adams · 19 Comments
News : MG’s finance deals appeal
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 [...]
January 23, 2012
· Richard Kilpatrick · 48 Comments
News : Production-ready MG5 spied in China
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 [...]
January 12, 2012
· Adam Sloman · 80 Comments
News : NAC picks up De Tomaso
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 [...]
January 2, 2012
· Keith Adams · 48 Comments
Unsung Heroes : MG Metro 1300
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 [...]
November 5, 2011
· Mike Humble · 73 Comments
Blog : MG UK – So long, and thanks for all the fish
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, [...]
October 21, 2011
· Keith Adams · 112 Comments
The cars : MG RV8
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 [...]
October 2, 2011
· Keith Adams · One Comment
