The latest claim is that MG has sold a million cars to European customers. That, however, can’t be quite right. That figure is predicated purely on the reborn MG, which was reintroduced to Europe in 2011, the brand having been all-but-literally plucked by China’s Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation (SAIC) from the ashes of what had been the MG Rover Group in 2005.
So officially speaking, that’s the only official MG? But that can’t be right, as back in 2024 the company was – officially, even becoming the featured marque at the Goodwood Festival of Speed – celebrating its centenary, 100 years from when Cecil Kimber started building sporty cars out of Morris bits and pieces in a garage in Oxfordshire.
If you combine ‘old’ MG’s sales with ‘new’ MG’s sales, you should end up somewhere around the 2.5 million mark by my reckoning.
Mind you, it’s still a sobering thought to note that ‘old’ MG too
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