How distant seems the time when MG was in trouble! The company “Morris Garages” was founded in 1924 was once one of the most important brands in British Leyland Consortium. You know, this British car giant, which includes, among others, Rover, Jaguar, Austin, Triumph. Later Land Rover and Mini! But the financial difficulties of the 1980s led to the crisis of this industrial flagship. Triumph, Austin, Morris are gone, Jaguar and Land Rover were sold. By the end of the 90s, only MG and Rover remained. They tried one last trick with a new one MG Rover Group. In the aging range, with some amazing models ( city ​​over based on Tata Indica), German went bankrupt in 2005. It was then the beginning of a a long way out of hellto save one of the last universal British manufacturers (along with Vauxhall).

Saved by SAIC

On the edge of the abyss MG Rover was acquired by China’s state-owned SAIC Group. Absorption was concerned MG trademark mainly, the use of the Rover brand was not granted to SAIC during the negotiations. Undoubtedly, the point agrees Land Rover. It is for this reason that we have seen the emergence in China of a Brand Roewe visually very close to the Rover, and which distributed the 75 version under the brand. In 2009, production MG6, a redesigned Roewe 550. At the time, we might have believed the brand was dead. But this, on the contrary, is the moment when it really rises from the ashes. Since 2017, a year after the end of MG 6, crossover ZS was opened. SAIC decided to make MG its flagship in Europethe electric ZS was supposed to embody that renewaland sold here.

A brand that is a hit in France

MG since then mainly focused on electrified cars, a chain of models. It was EHS plugin hybrid, Marvel R electric, universal MG5 electric. And recently a new electric compact MG4. The brand is going from success to success, it is already registered in France 4300 MG 4 orders. First of all, a subsidiary MG Motor France announced that he had crossed the line 10,000 registrations per year. A trend that should not weaken with the recent arrival Thermal ZS, anti-Duster. Possible arrival MG One in Europe, a large hybrid SUV and a MG F-style electric roadster (1995-2002), display good health MG in Europe. We often cry out against the onslaught of Chinese brands on our market, but in this case, it was the Chinese who saved MGnot Europeans.