MG
29 entries
British-designed marque founded in Oxford in 1924, now the property of China's SAIC Motor and built mainly in China.
- Marque founded
- 1924, in Oxford
- Maker
- MG Motor, owned by SAIC Motor
- Control
- SAIC Motor, since December 2007
- Assembly in the UK
- Longbridge, from 2007 to 2016
The MG marque was founded in Oxford in 1924 by Cecil Kimber. After passing through the British Motor Corporation, British Leyland and BMW ownership, it was bought from the defunct MG Rover Group by Nanjing Automobile Corporation in 2005.
SAIC Motor, a Chinese state-owned carmaker, gained control in December 2007 when it acquired Nanjing Automobile. Cars are developed by SAIC and built mainly in China, with only brief assembly at the Longbridge plant in the UK from 2007 to 2016.
- 1924MG marque founded in Oxford
- 2005Nanjing Automobile buys the marque
- 2007SAIC Motor takes control
- 2016Vehicle production ends at Longbridge
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MG MG Montego: the fastest MG of its time
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MG MG Maestro: the sporting LC10 hatchback
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MG MG XPower SV: the carbon-bodied V8 of MG Rover
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MG MG MGB: eighteen years of the British sports car
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MG MG Midget: the Sprite-based two-seater of 1961
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MG MG ZS: the Rover 45 turned sports saloon
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MG MG ZT: the sporting Rover 75
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MG MG ZR: the hot hatch that kept MG Rover alive
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MG MG MGC: the six-cylinder MGB of 1967