Automobile Makes and Models MG

By Brendan Moore 04.15.2008 According to the Birmingham Post, a British daily, the chances of MGs being mass-produced at the Longbridge plant are now almost nil. Nanjing, the owner of MG Rover, has effectively given up on the idea of producing the MG TF sports car, the model it had planned to produce at the former Longbridge plant. Stadco, the specialty auto supplier, has decided to stop Read Full Story

By Brendan Moore 12.27.2007 It only seems like it took forever. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC), corporate parent of Shanghai Motor Corporation in Beijing, has acquired Yuejin Motor Group, parent of Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corp. The much-anticipated deal allows SAIC to take over all the key assets of Nanjing (which includes MG Rover) for the price of approximately $286 million USD. The deal not only gives SAIC a great launching pad into Europe via the MG and Rover brands and... Read Full Story

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By Brendan Moore 07.28.2007 The largest auto manufacturer in China, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., and Nanjing Automobile Group, the owner of MG, have announced plans to merge. Shanghai Automotive produced around 350,000 cars through its joint ventures with General Motors and Volkswagen in the first 5 months of 2007. It has also started producing cars under its own brand in 2007. Nanjing Automobile is a much smaller concern, but it owns one of the most recognized brands in the world... Read Full Story

The earliest model, the 1924 14/28 consisted of a new sporting body on a Morris Oxford chassis. This production continued through the next models following the updates to the Morris. The first car which can be described as a new MG, rather than a modified Morris was the 18/80 of 1928 which had a purpose designed chassis and the first appearance of the traditional vertical MG grille. A smaller car was launched in 1929 with the first of a long line of Midgets starting with the M-Type based on a... Read Full Story