MG Car Reviews

In the 1920's The MG Car Company got its name from Morris Garages, a dealer of Morris cars in Oxford which began producing its own customised versions of Morris to the designs of Cecil Kimber.

Best known for its two-seat open sports cars, MG also produced saloons and coupes.

MG was absorbed in to the The British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1952. BMC merged with Jaguar Cars in 1966 to form British Motor Holdings, which in turn merged with the Leyland Motor Corporation in 1968 to form the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC).

Following part nationalisation in 1975 BLMC became British Leyland then later changed to just BL.

Between 1982 and 1991, the MG marque was revived on sportier versions of Austin Rover's Metro, Maestro and Montego ranges. After an interval of barely one year, the MG marque was revived again, this time on the MG RV8 - an updated MGB Roadster with a Rover V8 engine, which was produced in low volumes.

After BL became the Rover Group in 1986, ownership of the MG marque passed to British Aerospace in 1988 and then in 1994 to BMW.

A second revival came in the summer of 1995, when the high volume MG F two-seater roadster was launched. This was an instant hit with buyers, and sold in volumes which had been unthinkable on affordable two-seaters since the 1970's.

The MG marque passed, along with the Rover marque, to the MG Rover group in May 2000, when BMW "broke up" the Rover Group. This arrangement saw the return of MG badges on sportier Rover-based cars, and a revised MG F model, known as the MG TF, launched in 2002. Unfortunately, in April 2005 all production ceased when MG Rover went into administration.

On 22 July 2005, the Nanjing Automobile Group purchased the rights to the MG brand and the assets of the MG Rover Group for £53 million creating a new company NAC MG UK Limited. In 2011 MG launched a new model, the MG6 GT.