|
||
|
6th May 2011, 13:11 | #1 |
This is my second home
CDTi Conniosseur SE HLNav Tourer and a Personal Line CDT Conniosseur SE Tourer..for the time being. Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Cumbria
Posts: 3,639
Thanks: 340
Thanked 423 Times in 294 Posts
|
NEW MG saloon spotted
Almost forgot this. On Monday 2-5-11 while traveling south on the M6 past Lancaster (driving the 75 of course) i was passed by a largish silver saloon car on an 11 plate. It had an MG badge smack bang where the rover badge is on the top middle of the boot trim of a 75.
It was going some so i only got a few seconds to see it. Are the chineese exporting the new saloon to the UK? Has anyone else spotted it? |
6th May 2011, 19:40 | #2 |
Loves to post
ex: Rover 75 2.0 V6 Club SE (2001 model on an 02 Plate). Now: MG Motor MG ZS Exclusive 1L Automatic Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Ruislip
Posts: 418
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Not that I am aware of, but MG design and prototyping is done in the UK, so highly possible it's a new MG7 proto on road test.
__________________
Chris Green (Commodore) http://www.chrisgreen.co.uk Owners Club Forum Member No. 21 Owners Club Member No. 86 http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...ine=1163024370 Gone but not forgotten....The Tank Rover 75 2.0 V6 Club SE (2001 model on an 02 Plate) |
6th May 2011, 19:50 | #3 | |
This is my second home
lovely little ford focus. Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: East Dulwich
Posts: 7,877
Thanks: 2
Thanked 82 Times in 68 Posts
|
Quote:
they are being shipped in parts and put together in birmingham,have been doing so for a good few months now..will try to find the page that confirms this ..
__________________
[ I'm really confused. -I keep dreaming I'm an insomniac |
|
6th May 2011, 19:54 | #4 | |
Loves to post
ex: Rover 75 2.0 V6 Club SE (2001 model on an 02 Plate). Now: MG Motor MG ZS Exclusive 1L Automatic Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Ruislip
Posts: 418
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Quote:
__________________
Chris Green (Commodore) http://www.chrisgreen.co.uk Owners Club Forum Member No. 21 Owners Club Member No. 86 http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...ine=1163024370 Gone but not forgotten....The Tank Rover 75 2.0 V6 Club SE (2001 model on an 02 Plate) |
|
6th May 2011, 19:55 | #5 |
This is my second home
lovely little ford focus. Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: East Dulwich
Posts: 7,877
Thanks: 2
Thanked 82 Times in 68 Posts
|
After 16 years, the MG is about to hit the road again – thanks to the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation
The automotive offspring of an Anglo-Chinese collaboration will roll off the production line in Birmingham on Wednesday to show the world its sporty snout, aggressive grille and a familiar octagonal badge into which two famous letters have been squeezed. The MG6 fastback, which was designed and engineered in Britain but built mainly in China, is the first all-new MG to be launched in 16 years. It is also the 21st-century incarnation of an 87-year-old marque that was once a byword for all that was nippy, open-topped and carefree about British sports cars. Little wonder then that the company has opted for a little glitz to mark the day when full production of its cars resumes. “It will come through a showcase arch with a bit of fanfare,” said the company’s PR manager, Doug Wallace. Production of the car at MG Birmingham – a factory on the former Longbridge site – would not have been possible were it not for the company’s Chinese owners, the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC). Six years ago, MG Rover Group went into administration and MG was bought by China’s oldest carmaker, NAC. Two years later, NAC merged with SAIC and the MG marque was once again reborn. Despite the ownership, and the fact that it is three-quarters built in China before being shipped over and finished off by the 40 or so manufacturing workers in Birmingham, Wallace insists the five-door hardtop is a true MG. “All of the design work for the car, all the styling and all of the actual engineering design work is done here, and all the engineering development and proving of the car is done by that team on site here at MG Birmingham,” he said. “The driving dynamics of the car are [also] overtly MG: it’s very sporty going through quick corners and bends and we think that’s a particular thing that sets us apart.” But those fantasising about the whoosh of wind through their hair as they tear down country lanes might want to rein in the romance: the MG6 is looking to take on the likes of the Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra. Lest there be any doubt that the MG6 is not exactly a sporty coupe, Wallace added: “A lot of people compare it to the Skoda Octavia and the Vauxhall Insignia, for the body shape.” To others, though, the new car is about a lot more than the reinvention of a beloved brand. This week is the sixth anniversary of the closure of the once-great Longbridge plant, with the loss of 6,500 MG Rover jobs. The Labour MP Richard Burden, whose Birmingham Northfield constituency includes Longbridge, describes the MG6 as a milestone and, hopefully, a glimpse of real recovery. “We’re never going to see Rover’s return of 20,000 people engaged in mass car production, but what you’re seeing here is not just a new model rolling off the tracks at Longbridge but also a new model that was designed and developed at Longbridge,” he said. “Britain now excels in performance engineering and in automotive-related environmental technologies … [and] Longbridge can be a centre for that.” All the talk of corporate and regional revival, however, will prove premature if the marque fails to hit the mark this time around. According to Richard Ladds, editor of the MG Owners’ Club magazine, Enjoying MG, the new car is “very good, very capable, very competent … it’s not a BMW but it’s not a low-rent car either”. Nor is he bothered about where the car is mainly built. “It’s a bit like an Apple computer: I think, ‘Oh that’s a lovely Apple computer’, I don’t think, ‘Oh it’s built in China’.” The main thing, said Ladds, is that the old Morris Garages badge is once again on the bonnet of a new car. “There’s a somewhat strange brand loyalty and it’s nice to be able to say yes, we can go and buy a new MG,” he said.
__________________
[ I'm really confused. -I keep dreaming I'm an insomniac |
6th May 2011, 20:06 | #6 |
Gets stuck in
'00 BMW 535i Auto M-Sport, '99 Rover 75 2.5 V6 Connoisseur SE Auto Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Midlands
Posts: 733
Thanks: 0
Thanked 7 Times in 2 Posts
|
This ring any bells?
__________________
` [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "Trimmed like a first class cabin on the Titanic...before it sank." ---------- "The LPG'd, civilized psychopath." |
9th May 2011, 18:55 | #7 |
This is my second home
CDTi Conniosseur SE HLNav Tourer and a Personal Line CDT Conniosseur SE Tourer..for the time being. Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Cumbria
Posts: 3,639
Thanks: 340
Thanked 423 Times in 294 Posts
|
|
9th May 2011, 21:23 | #8 |
I really should get out more.......
ZT-T 160 1.8T Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: West Sussex
Posts: 2,664
Thanks: 46
Thanked 64 Times in 42 Posts
|
Nice badge and that's about it really IMHO.
Cheers Tony
__________________
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] |
9th May 2011, 21:33 | #9 |
Banned
MG ZT V6 190+ Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Leeds
Posts: 33,223
Thanks: 41
Thanked 1,614 Times in 1,416 Posts
|
As previosly stated,let's wait and see the depreciation in value of these vehicles,next year will give us some concrete evidence
Would make a decent replacement for the wifes very bland Renault megane |
9th May 2011, 23:17 | #10 |
Gets stuck in
MG ZT-T CDTi Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Sunny Suffolk
Posts: 610
Thanks: 1
Thanked 16 Times in 13 Posts
|
They are due to release a saloon equivalent of the MG6 in the near future so if it was a saloon, it could have been an early version of that.
Kearton |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|