Basic Instincts.
By Mark Andrews
South China Morning Post.
20/12/2008
The mainland seems to have inherited a few dramas with the remains of MG Rover. First designs went to SAIC and the factory to Nanjing Motors, resulting in two competing versions of the Rover 75 badged respectively as the Roewe 750 and the MG7. Then the government forced the reluctant partners into bed and we had the birth (or is that rebirth?) of MG-Roewe.
Due to the difficulty of establishing Roewe’s brand internationally, the marque’s cars are likely to be sold abroad as MGs. In Chile the Roewe 550 has already been displayed with MG badges. But in the mainland it seems MG will once again return to the sporting heritage of its MG-Rover arrangement. Pictures are circulating in the mainland’s motoring press of a more sporty hatchback version of the 550 badged as an MG6.
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