MG Lands in New Zealand

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The old colonial countries were once great business for British Leyland, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand were willing recipients of BL products back in the company’s hay day, however the rise of Japanese and then Korean manufacturers put BL to an early grave. MG-Rover continued selling its produce to the lands down under until the company’s collapse in 2005, the original New Zealand distributor, British Motor Distributors, was one of the only MG-Rover affiliated companies to honor warranties on cars sold in the country when MG-R went under.

Now the company is back selling MG’s once again, MG Motors took delivery of the first batch of MG6′s earlier this week. The 6′s were made in Shanghai and shipped to New Zealand in sedan and hatchback form, currently only the UK has the ability to manufacturer MG’s at its Longbridge plant, so NZ customers will be receiving Chinese made models.

Apparently MG New Zealand will be showing the new 6 at the MG National Rally.