First Chinese MG's roll.
This is all too weird. Exerpt: Made-in-China: British icon MG revived Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:59AM BST Email This Article | Print This Article | RSS Feed [-] Text [+] By Fang Yan NANJING, China (Reuters) - A venerable British motor brand was reborn in a gritty Chinese industrial suburb on Tuesday as state-owned Nanjing Automobile Group rolled out its first MG sports cars and saloons. A racing green MG TF two-seater convertible, a copy of the popular original British model, was unveiled at a plant in the eastern city of Nanjing -- the first Made-in-China MG car. Photo Nanjing Auto, a medium-sized car maker that began life as a military garage in 1947, will use the MG marque founded in the 1920s to target China's fast-growing ranks of wealthy buyers. "We are keeping the original British flavour," said Zhang Xin, general manager of Nanjing subsidiary making the cars. "But in the future, the major market for MG will be in China." Two models of the MG 7 series saloon, based on the original MGZF model, were also revealed to a 1,000 strong audience of Chinese government officials and global media. MG cars built in the Chinese plant and the former MG Rover plant at Longbridge in the English Midlands, which Nanjing Auto plans to restart in May, will also be sold in Europe. Nanjing has signed a letter of intent to make MG cars in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, in a project that could involve $2 billion (1 billion pounds) of state, local government and private investment. Zhang said talks were ongoing and an announcement would be made once a final decision had been reached. http://uk.reuters.com/article/motori...83214420070328