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It looks Nanjing MG might just beat Roewe in the export game! Roewe keep saying they will export, then they arent exporting then they are exporting We dont get it. Will the worlds people except a Chinese owned British vehicle into their garages again? Wait and see.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Nanjing Automobile Group intends to start exporting its China-made MG cars to Europe in the second half of this year as it revives the iconic British brand, a senior executive said.

The company is setting up sales teams in Europe and British Commonwealth countries, such as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, where the MG brand is still a household name, said Zhang Xin, general manager of the Nanjing Auto unit making the cars.

Overseas sales may account for half or more of global sales of MG cars in the first few years, he said in a telephone interview late on Saturday from the state-owned company’s headquarters in the eastern city of Nanjing.

Previously, the company had not revealed when it would start exporting MG cars from China, but Zhang said Nanjing Auto was encouraged by the response of foreign dealers and car enthusiasts to its first models.

“Many MG dealers have expressed strong interest after seeing the made-in-China models, as they look the same as the ones at home,” he said.

Nanjing Auto, which took control of assets of collapsed MG Rover in 2005, began rolling MG sports cars and saloons off its Chinese production line last Tuesday — the first MG cars to be produced in two years.

Production at the former MG Rover plant at Longbridge in central England may restart in April or May, and Nanjing Auto may also make MG cars in a $2 billion project in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, though a final decision has not been made.

So a decision has not been made on the Oklahoma plant? Will Nanjing MG ever make it stateside, there are rumors saying they are going, there are rumors saying they are not. I guess

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