Review Category : Nanjing MG

MG5 Gaining FaceLift For 2013/14

The MG5 arrived in concept form in early 2011 and give us a taste of what a compact MG might look like, sadly the MG5 didn’t live quite up to MG’s sporting expectations thanks to a soft ride and a weak engine. The forthcoming MG5 with a 1.5T and a dual clutch will likely live up to all that is required from any car that carries the MG label. The turbo…

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Jeremy Clarkson Gets Diesel MG6, Stalls it.

The MG6 has only just been launched in the UK – (yes the one that they launched in Guangzhou but followed it up with marketing materials showing the MG6 surrounded in black exhaust fumes) and it is the car that MG UK are hoping will gain some major sales after the poor showing of the gasoline 1.8T in a diesel dominant UK market, the MG3 will also be…

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MG Airs MG3 UK Specification

The MG6 is a fantastic car to drive as all reports seem to indicate, the MG3 was also fantastic which made us wonder why the MG5 was so horrifically poor in comparison to its larger and smaller stable brothers. MG have now issued the China Car Times favorite, the MG3, in UK specification with the super mini expected to be on the market in the UK region…

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SAIC releases official pictures of the MG CS concept

SAIC-owned MG revealed the first official pictures of its MG CS concept, which would become the company’s “first production urban SUV.” Departing from the retro looks of last year’s MG Icon concept, the CS has more modern lines. It bears some resemblance to the MG Zero revealed in 2010,…

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MG CS SUV Appears Prior to Shanghai Auto Show

The MG6 came and it impressed, it didn’t sell overly well when compared to rivals such as the Ford Focus, but it impressed. Then the MG3 came and brought volume to the MG brand. Then the MG5 came and everyone wondered what went so wrong, the Five had the front end of the modern MG range but it lacked the MG feel, likely due to its anemic engine choice…

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MG5 Turbo Road Testing Yet Again, Due For Shanghai Auto Show Launch

The MG5 is already out on the market but not making a huge impact in the sales charts, the Chinese media road tests were not entirely favorable to the autobox and weak engine offerings but the forthcoming turbo and dual clutch model might change media perceptions.

The turbo version is likely to launch at the Shanghai Auto Show later this month, what…

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MG5 Turbo Produces 95kw, will be priced from 125,000RMB

The much needed MG5 Turbo will hit the market soon according to recent media reports, the Shanghai Auto Show is being cited as the official launch date on April 19th this year. The 1.5T engine was developed in partnership between SAIC and GM as part of a 2010 deal which saw the two work together to develop 1.0L to 1.5L engines which would included direct…

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MG6 Diesel Test Reports Emerge from the UK

The UK automotive media have mostly loved the MG6 but consumers didn’t due to the lack of a diesel. That’s changed, MG now have a oil burning engine available for the MG6 with a 1.8 unit that pushes out 148bhp, for UK’ers that translates into just over 53mpg and 139g of Co2. The gasoline MG6 was a tough sell in the UK with just ‘dozens’ being sold every…

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MG5 1.5T Spotted Again

The MG5 has already been released with a 1.5L engine but the Chinese media rightfully slated it for being a little too slow off the mark when compared to its more powerful rivals. The power issues might be solved with the introduction of the 1.5T engine, this little unit has 135BHP on tap and 200Nm of torque, more than enough to spin the wheels at the…

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MG and Roewe’s Abandoned in the Desert

Ever wondered what a car dealership would look like after armageddon? This MG-Roewe dealership in Dubai seems to give us a sneak peak of a post apocalyptic automotive environment would look like, according to rumor a lovers tiff between the old MG importer (presumably under MG-Rover) and the new MG-Roewe importer (under SAIC) has left MG in a perilous…

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Europe, this is for you! MG6 Turbo Diesel Sighted Road Testing

The MG6 has been a fantastic hit in Europe – or perhaps not. The Europeans love for gasoline is rivaled for their love of austerity measures, making the 1.8T gasoline MG6 a bit of a flop, especially as it was launched at the height of a recession when consumers wanted small and economical, neither the MG6 excelled at.

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MG Icon SUV Official Renders Leaked

I got a text message at 5pm from a friend at auto.sohu.com, “Ive got a cool thing to share” he said “get on QQ ASAP“. Nursing a suspected cracked rib and sitting on the train, I was clearly in no rush to open my laptop and get online to look over a concept car from any company, but it seems the error was totally mine. The cool thing…

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MG to show concept SUV in Beijing, and possibly 1.5T

MG’s rise is slow but sure, the company started with the large 6 but followed up with the 3, both models have acquired volume sales in China although the MG6 is lagging behind in the UK. The MG3 is expected to have its unveiling in the UK next month on May 17. The MG5 was launched just last week with fairly competitive prices, somewhere above its Chinese…

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MG Lands in New Zealand

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…

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MG6 Turbo Diesel Spotted in China, sporting six speed gearbox

If you listen to European MG fans all they want is a diesel, and perhaps an automatic gearbox, the current MG6 made in MG UK from kits sent from China offers neither, and thus there hasn’t exactly been Apple-like queuing to buy the MG6. Europeans love their diesels, UK’ers love their diesels even more, so for MG to launch without one is a little unforgivable…

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MG5 naked from all corners

The MG5 is probably one of the more anticipated compact cars in 2012, the small car has already been seen a number of times on the great pages of China Car Times but this is the first time we’ve seen it in a color that actually suits the cars styling. The MG5 was reportedly designed in the UK at SAIC’s Technical Center but the cars styling does look…

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China gets UK edition of the MG6

A few months ago I spotted a UK version of the MG6 testing in Shanghai’s Jia Ding district, which is not too far from SAIC’s headquarters. Of course only I am sad enough to spot the slightest difference between the UK and Chinese version, the UK model gets a faux plastic air vent on the front wing and of course different alloys, on the inside the plastics…

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This is not the MG5 with very little camo

The MG5 and Roewe 350 may share a platform, but they are miles apart in the looks department. The 350 is a very middle of the road grandpa inspired design, the MG5 looks like a new hot hatch that is ready to roll with the best of them. The MG5 concept had its first airing at the Shanghai Auto Show earlier this year where it impressed the crowds and…

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MG5 spy pictures show China’s first possible hot hatch

China got into the hot hatch phase late last year when the Golf GTI hit the market, it was followed up by the Skoda Octavia VRS (actually just called RS in China due to V being unpronounceable by most)  and other car makers are readying their own little cannonballs as the Chinese media likes to call hot hatches. The MG5 was shown in concept form…

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MG3 Xross Sighted Out Again

The MG3 has only just hit the market but SAIC are readying to follow it up with the oddly spelled Xross, which is apparently the new age way of writing Crossover. The original Rover Streetwise gave birth to the crossover rage, but the Xross reminds us why it was all such a bad idea.

Power for the Xross will be the same as the regular…

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Sleek, slender and surely to be a winner – the MG5 in Shanghai

MG’s chief designer, Tony Williams-Kenny was on hand in Shanghai to answer all of the media’s questions regarding the design and the development of the MG5 concept, but we did not get a chance to talk with him as he was surrounded by UK media who were all eagerly asking questions about the concept. Seeing as I’ve met Mr. Williams-Kenny before and he…

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This is the MG5 Concept

The Shanghai Auto Show is well under way – underway of course if you’re an exhibitor and you can get in early, of which I am this week. So early entry into the Shanghai Auto Show before the massive crowds begin to enter is always a bonus, first impressions seem to indicate that the Shanghai Auto Show is huge this year, it seems to put last years Beijing…

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MG5 spotted out testing again

The MG5 concept will get its official airing at the Shanghai Auto Show next week but SAIC have been terrible at hiding their new cars from the prying eyes of cellphone cameras, plus the fact that the empty octagonal logo impress in the cars front grill gives the fact away that an MG is out testing. The below pictures gave us the clearest indications…

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MG3 spotted out again in red, blue and silver

In all of our recent postings on the MG3 we have by far and large only seen the MG3 in yellow, but this time other colors have been sighted out:

The MG3 will make its official launch at this months Guangzhou Auto Show and will be powered by a 1.5L gearbox to start with, although a cheaper 1.3L model will make…

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