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0Report: All-new MG roadster in the works with gasoline, diesel and hybrid powertrains 1271277000
Hot on the heels of a report from one British car mag declaring the new MG6 – the company's first clean-sheet new product since its acquisition by Chinese automaker Nanjing – possibly the best-handling vehicle in its class come new reports that another all-new product is in the works ...
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Nanjing's first clean-sheet MG gets tested, better to drive than Ford Focus? 1271250000
This will get some heads turning: after a drive on challenging Welsh roads, Autocar has written "In its poise and agility I'd even say the MG6 is superior" to the Ford Focus Zetec S. There are other compromises: the interior, the gearchange, the NVH, grunt at high revs. But the first bespoke ...
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Aborted plans for trio of new MG sportscar unearthed in new report 1268949480
MG Project X120 – Click above for image galleryAs recently as five years ago, iconic British marque MG was in the midst of developing three – count 'em, three – new sportscars, according to various reports. Unfortunately, as MG Rover ran out of capital and was sold off to ... -
SAIC wants you to help rename streets at Longbridge 1266777660
Pictured above is one tiny corner of the formerly mammoth Longbridge factory complex that last made MGs. Now owned by SAIC, the site is meant to be undergo extensive repurposing. To help keep it British – and perhaps pick up a little more interest in MG – SAIC has called for help in ...
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Rumormill: Chinese-owned MG planning TF roadster successor 1266240720
Although it probably plummeted off your radar around the time "My Humps" and "Don' Cha" were topping the charts, the MG TF remains in production. Well, kind of – the factory was idled last year, but it will restart in April. After this year, however, the owners of MG, China's SAIC, have ...
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Report: MG X-Power revivalist arrested 1262611860
Just when there was beginning to be good news associated with MG, tales of woe return. This time it has to do with British entrepreneur Will Riley, who somehow established himself as the force behind the MG X-Power even though MG branding rights had been purchased by China's Nanjing. Riley is in ...
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SAIC-owned MG launches MG 6, first all-new car in 14 years 1259020800
2010 MG 6 – Click above for high-res image galleryThe last new MG was the MGF sportscar way back in 1995, and oh, what a difference 14 years makes. The MG6 is the first new MG by the company's new owner, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC), and they've chosen a four-door liftback for ... -
REPORT: Production lines halted at MG's Longbridge plant. This is not a repeat from 2005. 1254868140
It is a travesty that the initials "MG" are coming to be a convenient epithet for the term "woe." The British sportscar maker has had an exceedingly trying history recently, and things haven't got any better with word that its owner, MG Motor UK Ltd. (which is really Nanjing Automobile ...
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FOLLOWUP: MG Rover execs reportedly strike back amidst fraud accusations 1247058060
The soap opera that is unfolding in the United Kingdom regarding the death of the once-proud MG Rover automobile company continues unabated. Four former MG Rover executives who purchased the automaker from BMW back in May of 2000 for a £10 fee have responded to Lord Mandelson's decision to ...
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FOLLOWUP: Serious Fraud Office reportedly called in to investigate MG Rover collapse 1246915800
The saga that is the collapse of MG Rover and the subsequent four-year government probe into what went wrong has just taken another sordid and oddly-timed twist. Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for the British Labour Party, has told the Financial Times that he was under "obligation" to pass the ...

