UPDATE: Gallery now has pictures from the show.
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. MG, the company that brought us the iconic MG Roadster so long ago, has unveiled a concept car at the Beijing Motor Show. It’s no roadster nor a hot hatch but an SUV, the first for the car company.
This SUV concept is called the MG Icon and is created by the MG global design team headed by British director Anthony Williams-Kenny. Although one of the watermarks in the picture credits SAIC Design for the effort, both are essentially one and the same.
The inspiration for the MG Icon comes from their old design books, particularly the MGA and the MGB GT. Especially at the rear where the Icon’s rear structural lamps take position on top of the haunched wings. Inside, the Icon sports a four ‘shell’ seat layout, in which the rear seats can fold flat to the floor like every respectable SUV can.
Williams-Kenny said that the MG Icon highlights the car company’s global vision and is a milestone for the brand, particularly this year when MG is celebrating their 50 years in existence. No news whether MG will put the Icon into production.
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Is this the one that Interior is designed by Posh Beckham?
Nope, that’s the Range Rover Evoque.
why the show’s were full with SUV’s where is all the normal cars go??
OMG….tat’s awesome!!
Very SAIC-esqe, the Chinese will love these over the top designs…
lol looks like a frog
Mini Cooper with big wheels. . .XD haha
imho, the rear fenders look too big.
the wheels look bigger then the car lol… from the looks of it … in a few years time china and india would most probably take over the car market as well….
Fuh! Berketul body dia. Mcm muscle man.
oh tidak ! my father used to own a mgb. this monster looks nothing like any of the past glories.
so… o.O’
Now this is an ugly vehicle.
How can a designer take so many design elements that individually say beautiful MG and turn into something this Fugly thing with MG looks but no MG grace?
BTW, for the un-initiated Fugly is a word used in England that means F****ng ugly///////
Oh – and by the way – MG isn’t 50 years old this year – the MGB is…. MG is about 85 years old…
Andy.
Love this concept, just a shame the back wheels look a little screwed up :)
Cat face interior interesting, the exterior designer had gone overboard.
front ok but the big butt at rear make it feel so heavy at the end…esp. 3/4 view
It looks like a mini copper on steroid….huge amount of steroid….