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The tiny MGs beat the powerful Bentleys. One Bentley driver said, "We've been invaded by fleas. A class win with the K3 at the Mille Miglia road race was the first time a non-Italian team had won. Then MG turned their focus onto speed records. 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 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.

SAIC has in a sense retreated to the top of this valley, where two dozen buildings still stand. There are British engineers on site, who work with a team of more in Shanghai. The suspension, for example, is said to be stiffer in the U. The enormous building, where the BMW-era Rover 75 was once built, is almost empty. Assemblers wear winter jackets, and if they get cold, some individual heat blower units are turned on.

Some of them worked for the old MG Rover company back in the day. The MG6 sedans are imported from China fully painted and mostly complete. In the CAB, workers need only install the front end of the cars: the engine and transmission, the front fascia. We took a short ride in the MG6. In the middle of this year, there will be a plug-in petrol hybrid version of the HS , a model designed to take advantage of new UK benefit-in-kind laws for company cars and to suit zero-emissions legislation coming to city centres.

Gregorious confirms that the HS can also be built with an all-electric powertrain like the ZS EV, but no decision has yet been made to do it. Next on the new-model agenda is an all-electric estate similar in size to the Ford Focus but available with battery power only.

Beyond that, MG could eventually consider sportier petrol engines for the ZS it already has higher-tune petrol engines that would suit a kind of ZS GTI , although it seems to regard electrification as a better high-performance avenue. But if we can do well with mainstream models, there could be plenty of opportunity for more sporty models in the future.

Also, the owners are well aware that the heritage of MG comes entirely from the UK. It regards Britishness as a vital component of its offer.