MG returns to the UK, with MG6 fastback due in April

MG returns to the UK, with MG6 fastback due in April

While the Chinese connection for MG has been building up steadily, with SAIC aggressively marketing the marque in the country, it has all been rather quiet at the place where it all began, until now, that is.

The brand has just been relaunched in the UK, the return being ushered in at the company’s Longbridge facility in Birmingham. To chug things along, there’s a new website as well as an updated logo for the brand – the badge differs from the Chinese version and wil be used exclusively in Europe.

MG returns to the UK, with MG6 fastback due in April

There’s also a product, of course, and this is the MG6, which will carry the flag for the brand’s return to European shores. The fastback version, based on the Roewe 550, is slated to go on sale in the UK sometime in the middle of April, with customer deliveries starting sometime in May. At this point, the car will ship only in 1.8 turbo form, with a five-speed manual gearbox.

Meanwhile, the sedan form is due into the UK around July, with keen interest ramping up its arrival from the third quarter of the year. Hopefully, it’ll be a happier time for the brand with its return home.

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

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  • the side profile has the hit of shoulder line from bmw 5/7 series.

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  • brianjgtc on Feb 17, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    MG finally going home in Longbridge in Birmingham….haa hopefully the chinese firm can upgrade to better market…or what?

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  • ko malu saje... on Feb 17, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    The chinese have filled the shoes.

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  • mfahd_88 on Feb 17, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    is my eyes went wrong?
    i can see gen 2 styling in this car

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  • what? come on! Proton styling did better than this, and Gen 2 design was alr there in the early 2000s

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  • Anthony79 on Feb 17, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    This car is awesome….. My colleague driving 1.6 Turbo version and only cost about RM70-75k at Shanghai, China…..

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  • WIRA VR4 on Feb 19, 2011 at 12:01 am

    They blindly copy our Proton Gen2 fastback bodystyle! Copycat China!

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