We often post about the Chinese police, and their vast array of weaponry that they need to fight the hardly non existant crime in China. It seems today, they have a new weapon. A 1.8T MG7 sedan.
The police also have an MGTF, with an interesting emergency light set up.
MG is situated in Jiangsu province, and to support MG, the Jiangsu to provincial govt has put the MG range of cars in its procurement catalogue, essentially a Sears like cataloged of cars which civil servents and the police alike can choose a car, according to their pay grade.
Its a shame the British government never offered such vocal and material support for MG-Rover when it was still British.
I don’t normally comment on many articles but I took exception to this one.
I think you’ll find that Rover 75s were used extensively (and still are in some cases) by high profile UK government figures because they were very comfortable and relatively cheap.
Also, other Rover vehicles (45 and 25 models) have been across various UK police forces over a number of years. So, Rover cars have always been supported over the years by the government and police force across UK. Ok so, not all are MGs but who cares? The police have a long history of using Rovers since late 1950s and even some limited use now.
In any case, how practical is an MGTF when apprehending criminals and taking them down to the police station - madness! I think it is great that MGs and Rovers are still around in one form or another but I would not say that the MG7 is like the MGZT that it is supposedly based on; the MG7 appears to be a combination of MGZT and Rover 75 parts.
Rant over for now.
How many ‘high profile’ government people are there? a 100 at most, including inflated egos?
Compare that to the many thousands of every day police cars that are on the roads, they didnt have to be Rovers or MGs, but a percentage of them could have been.
thanks for commenting by the way, I hope you can continue to comment on any article that takes your fancy
I think the article is correct!
Where do you live Milady? I live in Britan and I can only remember seeing one government owned MG or Rover built during the MG-Rover era and that is a very fine Rover 75 Limo belonging to the Mayor of my local city. The only other vehicles which would qualify are the fleet of long wheelbase R75s currently in use by are government ministers however they were not put into action until after MG-Rover had died!
I had police cars in general in mind when I wrote the article. I havent seen any of the modern MG-Rover cars in public service use, although I remember the older Rovers were.
Yes, thge British Government and the people of Britian could have done much more to have suppoirted MGRover. I remember the Government buying 35 Ford Mondeos (made in Belgium) because they came out a bit cheaper! Saving a few pennies and loosing our home grown industry. Good luck China and hope you can make something out of our loss.
DBGEERE,
I see one eyed Brown was in Beijing on Friday, to support a 60billion GBP trade deal, and then off to India to pledge another 800million pounds to help Indians get better access to education and health services. How come UK hospitals are falling to bits, as is the education system, but the UK still spends its money elsewhere.
I don’t quite understood when you said “they need to fight the hardly non existant crime in China”… Are you kidding me? Lack of statistics is the right direction to look at…
Anyway, GREAT site. GREAT work.