Obviously at the moment Roewe is the stronger selling brand due to its newer line up with the big seller being the Roewe 550, the biggest seller for MG appears to the MG3SW, but that is likely to change once the MG6 hits the dealerships.
From Xinhua:
BEIJING, Jan. 4 – SAIC Motor Co Ltd sold more than 82,000 cars of its Roewe and MG brands between January and November of 2009, up 160 percent over the same period of the previous year. Full-year sales are expected to hit 90,000 units, the company …

It almost seems like a day doesn’t go by without a new picture of the upcoming Roewe 350:
This time its an interesting blue sedan that’s been given the half hearted camo treatment. The Chinese news portal, autohome, are reporting that the 350 is going to get a 1.8 and 1.8T engine (from the 550/MG6) and also a 5 speed manual and a 6 speed tiptronic gearbox instead of the 5 speed box that is being fitted to current 550’s and MG6’s.

Yes, it’s the same lurid orange MG6 from a few days ago, but it’s looking brilliant.
Some notes: The rear Chinese writing says SAIC, and the chrome badge is SAIC’s latest effort to boost the MG marque in China, and internationally once again. The MG6 will launch officially tomorrow, and we’ll be keeping you updated as per usual!
I personally think that the red concept car in Shanghai was a much nicer color

An MG6 complete with UK style plates has been spotted and posted to the net. However, the tangy orange car looks like it was recently in an advertising shoot rather than being sent to the UK:
Either way, we now have a much clearer picture of what the finished article is going to be. The MG6 launches next week at the Guangzhou Auto Show, and will be the first MG in quite a few years.

The Roewe SUV has been a long time coming, and is quite possibly the worst kept secret at Roewe. We know they’re making an SUV, practically everyone in the whole world knows that they have an SUV up their sleeves put only now are they getting around to launching it (maybe)
The Roewe SUV has been in ‘development’ for at least two years now, and by development we mean adding some new front lights to a Ssangyong Kyron and attaching new badges.
Hopefully the above SUV is the closest we will see …

The hybrid car market in China has yet to be exploited on a wide scale, BYD have entered the market with their BYD F3DM but that has yet to see mass market sales, the Prius is sold in China with a sky high price tag as is the Honda Civic Hybrid, Toyota are making waves about bringing their Camry hybrid to China but nothing has been cemented as of yet.
The Roewe 550 really is the dark horse of the Chinese car industry, its a Chinese built (with British help) …

I was on my way home from my office in Anting, Shanghai when I spotted four new mid-sized sedans lined up for a test drive. The cars were out for a test drive parked right outside a Volkswagen storage lot in Anting so naturally I thought they were going to be a new Volkswagen model but they turned out to be the new Rowe AP6 being test driven by SAIC engineers. The AP6 will be the first smaller model Rowe available on the market set to compete directly with the …

The Roewe 350 is likely to be getting ready for its launch at the Guangzhou Auto Show next month, where we will see its transformation from concept car to production car. However, the Roewe 350 has been spotted out yet again:
Roewe fans will notice that this is the first time that the 350 interior has been leaked to the internet. The interior itself is very similar to the Roewe 550’s, however it appears that the dashboard wood has taken on a different shade. Rather than being the dark streaks that …

The Roewe 350 is rapidly heading towards production, with test models being spotted out quite regularly now:
Its still unclear what platform the Roewe 350 is based on, possibly a shortened version of the Roewe 550, which is in turn a shortened version of the Rover 75 platform.
It appears that the Roewe 350 does not have much separating it from the Roewe N1 concept that we saw at the Shanghai Auto Show earlier this year.
This particular car has been codenamed the AP11 project, and is being worked on by both …

So CCT’s Spanish is not very good, but we think this means the Roewe 550 was spotted lurking in Spain:
MG ya está un poco más cerca de regresar a la vida en Europa. Manolo, uno de nuestros lectores, estaba haciendo montañismo en Sierra Nevada cuando se encontró con este curioso compañero de senda: un Roewe 550 con los logotipos tapados y varios cambios estéticos muy interesantes.El sustituto del 45/ZS, ya a la venta en China desde hace un tiempo e incluso en Chile bajo el paraguas de la propia MG, …

When Roewe first came to be, the first car that rolled off the line was the gentry like Roewe 750 with a big 2.5 V6 engine, over a short time Chinese consumers have quickly adapted to high oil prices and are quickly shying away from gigantic power plants that suck their purses dry to smaller turbo assisted engines that pack the punch of a 6 cylinder engine but with the economy of a 4 pot. Roewe are responding well to market conditions with the introduction of 1.8T, and future 1.5 …

Roewe 150 spy shots made it onto the internet early this morning, complete with an ‘artists rendering’ of what the finished product may look like. Previous ’spy shots’ of a Roewe 250 showed a Fiat Punto with some wires hanging out from under the hood, although that was likely to have been a test mule for an engine rather than a ‘cloned car’.
The Roewe 150, or possibly 250, will be Roewe’s first small car, an actual launch date has yet to be announced, but it could be unveiled at an …

News was released earlier today stating that the Roewe N1 will use a DSG gearbox once it is launched later this year. The DSG gearbox will be developed by BorgWarner in partnership with SAIC. As the Roewe 550 implemented the ‘digital system’ the N1 will implement ‘internet and informaton revolution’, as the 550 interior was rather splendid, its expected that the N1 will improve on the existing dash system.
The Roewe 550 Hatchback was also seen out testing recently, despite lacking the pizzaz that the MG6 had at the Auto Show, …

The Roewe N1 concept car was unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show this week, it drew in the crowds to the rather large SAIC stand, but it was greatly out done by the fantastic MG6.
You see, the W2 concept car (which later became the Roewe 550) was a new begining, but an extension of Rover (and therefore British) motoring heritage. The design was a radical change from the Rovers of the MG-R age, and showed a new direction, the MG6 continues with that new direction and will give MG …

The 550R is Roewe’s second shot at producing a sports sedan out of the Roewe 550. The previous incarnation was a failure, it was neither sporty, nor cool. The 550R at least improves on the original silver blob with a little bit more style, although the lower black skirting is superfluous to the overall design.
Now the question is, is this 550 actually named 550RS or 550R5?

The latest Roewe concept from SAIC design looks rather like the mule that CCT reader Dylan spotted a while back testing in Australia:
Shame the models pants are rather vile.

The Shanghai Auto Show is just about to start, but it is going to be a special one for MG, as it is the 85th birthday for one of Britains (now Chinas) oldest brand.
MG-Roewe are expected to throw a proper birthday bash for the old girl, and will launch the MG6 at the show, as well as the Roewe 550 hatchback and possibly even in MG guise as well.
The below 550 hatch with its sleek smoothed out trunk does resemble the MG6 pictures posted earlier today, so it does seem …

We’ve been wondering just what exactly SAIC had in store for the Rover 25 platform, they received it along with the Rover 75 platform (which they subsequently developed into the Roewe 750) but the Rover 25 was left neglected for a few years, until now:
The Roewe 250 is radically different from the Rover 25, leading itself to more of a Fiat Punto style design, but will of course have that hint of British elegance about it that other mini car producers just fail to invoke in their designs.
Engines are …