Models MG

The history of MG It is one of the stories that best demonstrates the current automotive situation. The English manufacturer, now Chinese, is one of the most legendary in the industry. Its initials correspond to "Morris Garages", who happened to be an old Morris brand dealer in Oxford, and who over the years started creating his own versions of those cars. The MG Motor company was established in the year 1924, locating its headquarters in Longbridge, Birmingham, England.

Following the death of its CEO, Cecil Kimber, the MG Motor company was taken over by the larger British Motor Corporation in 1952, being merged with the firm Austin. Over the successive years, MG launched products such as the MG A or the MG 1100/1300, among others. A wide variety of options that met the needs of a flourishing society after World War II.

After a few years of apparent calm, the British Motor Company became British Motor Holding and the British Leyland Motor Company in 1968. After a partial nationalization in 1975, the BLMC became exclusively known as British Leyland, a group made up of various British manufacturers. , including MG. Troubled years followed one another, and the BL conglomerate became the Rover Group in 1986, passing MG to the British Aerospace division in 1988 and finally to BMW in 1994.

At no time, despite the circumstances, did MG stop manufacturing at its Longbridge plant. For years they maintained their production philosophy shaping some of the best known and most popular classic English roadsters., without forgetting more practical and rational units such as the MG Metro, which would end up having a rally version for the legendary Group B, although it was barely able to compete.

Despite the arduous efforts to revive the company, in the spring of 2005 MG declared bankruptcy, ceasing production in its legendary factory. A couple of years then the Asian giant SAIC, one of the largest automakers in China, buys the company and tries to give it a new life. After a few years focusing on the local market, in 2020 SAIC decides that it is time to return to the European market with new models, reaching it with the first units; MG ZS and MG EHS, both with SUV bodywork and electrified mechanics.