MG is a British sports car and saloon marque that grew out of a 1920s sales sideline of Morris Garages in Oxford, where the manager Cecil Kimber fitted sporting bodies to Morris Oxford chassis and added the MG badge. The M.G. Car Company was incorporated in 1930 and bought by Morris Motors in 1935, and the marque passed into the British Motor Corporation in 1952 and into British Leyland in 1968. It continued under the Rover Group and MG Rover until receivership in 2005, then under Nanjing Automobile and SAIC Motor, which restarted production in China in 2007 and launched the MG6 in Britain in 2011.
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The marque was in continuous use, except for the duration of the Second World War, from its inception in 1924 until 2005, and then from 2007 under Chinese ownership.
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MG is a British automotive marque founded by Cecil Kimber in the 1920s, owned by Chinese automobile manufacturer SAIC Motor since 2007.
Part Of: British Leyland, Ownership
Its activities were renamed MG Division of BMC in 1967, and so it was a component of the 1968 merger that created British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC).
View the SourceMG MGA (Wikipedia)
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The MGA is a sports car that was produced by MG from 1955 until 1962.
MG MGB (Wikipedia)
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The MGB is a two-door sports car which was manufactured from 1962 until 1980 by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) (later the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland) and marketed under the MG marque.
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a 2,912 cc, straight-six version of the MGB
View the SourceMG Midget (Wikipedia)
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The MG Midget is a small two-seater lightweight sports car produced by MG from 1961 to 1979.
MG Magnette (Wikipedia)
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The MG Magnette is a car that was produced by MG between 1953 and 1968.
MG F / MG TF (Wikipedia)
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The MG F and MG TF are two-seater roadster cars that were sold under the MG marque by three manufacturers between 1995 and 2011.
MG ZR (Wikipedia)
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The MG ZR is an MG branded "hot hatch" version of the Rover 25 supermini class car, produced by MG Rover at their Longbridge plant in Birmingham from 2001 to 2005.
MG ZS (2001) (Wikipedia)
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The MG ZS is a sports family car that was built by MG Rover from 2001 until 2005.
MG ZT (Wikipedia)
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The MG ZT is a car which was produced by MG Rover from 2001 to 2005.
MG T-type (Wikipedia)
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produced by MG from 1936 to 1955
MG Y-type (Wikipedia)
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produced by MG in England from 1947 to 1953
MG 14/28 (Wikipedia)
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The MG 14/28 Super Sports is a sports car that was launched in 1924.
MG 18/80 (Wikipedia)
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The MG 18/80 is a car that MG Cars made from 1928 to 1931 as a successor to the types 14/28 and 14/40.
MG C-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG C-type is a sports car that was produced by MG from 1931 to 1932.
MG J-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG J-type is a sports car that was produced by MG from 1932 to 1934.
MG K-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG K-type Magnette is a motor car produced in the United Kingdom by MG from October 1932 to 1934.
MG L-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG L-type (also known as the MG Magna) is a sports car that was produced by the MG Car company in 1933 and 1934.
MG M-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG M-type (also known as the MG Midget) is a sports car that was produced by MG Cars from April 1929 until 1932.
MG N-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG N-type (also known as the MG Magnette) is a sports car that was produced by MG from October 1934 to 1936.
MG P-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG P-type is a sports car that was produced by MG from 1934 to 1936.
MG Q-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG Q-type (sometimes referred to as the MG QA) is a racing car that was produced by MG in 1934.
MG R-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG R-type is a motor car that was produced by MG in 1935.
MG SA (Wikipedia)
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The MG SA or MG 2-litre is a sporting saloon that was produced by MG from 1936 to 1939.
MG VA (Wikipedia)
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The MG VA, or MG 1½-litre as it was originally marketed, is a motor car that was produced by MG between February 1937 and September 1939 and was the smallest of the three sports saloons they produced in the late 1930s, the others being the SA and WA.
MG WA (Wikipedia)
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The MG WA is a sporting saloon that was produced by MG between 1938 and 1939 and was at the time the largest and heaviest car the company had built.
MG KN (Wikipedia)
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The MG KN Magnette is a coupé that was produced by MG between 1933 and 1934 and was designed to use up surplus bodies made for the unsold MG K-type saloons.
MG EX-E (Wikipedia)
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The MG EX-E is a concept car that was produced by MG and presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1985.
MG XPower SV (Wikipedia)
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The MG XPower SV is a sports car that was produced by British automobile manufacturer MG Rover.
MG 14/40 (Wikipedia)
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The MG 14/40 or MG 14/40 Mark IV is a sports car that was made by MG and launched in 1927.
MG D-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG D-type (also known as the MG Midget) is a sports car that was produced by MG in 1931 and 1932.
MG F-type (Wikipedia)
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The MG F-type (also known as the MG Magna) is a six-cylinder-engined car that was produced by MG from October 1931 to 1932.
Wikipedia: BMC ADO16
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the twin-carburettor MG 1100 (introduced at the end of September 1962)
Wikipedia: Austin Metro
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the MG Metro marked a quick comeback for the marque previously used on sports cars until the Abingdon plant making the MG B closed in 1980
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the 4WD mid engined MG Metro 6R4 of 1984
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An MG-branded performance version was sold as the MG Maestro from 1983 until 1991.
Wikipedia: Austin Montego
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On its launch, it was sold as both an Austin and a performance-enhanced MG.
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