Ooooooklahoma to Recieve New MG Plant

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Oooooklahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plain!!!!

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Chinese automaker Nanjing Automobile Group — which took over Britain's MG after its collapse in 2005 — plans to build a factory in Ardmore, Oklahoma to builds the next-generation TF coupe, the company announced today. A new research and development center will also be set up at the University of Oklahoma. As previously rumored, MG's Longbridge plant in the U.K. will be used to build the roadster version of the TF. Nanjing plans to build between 12,000 and 16,000 TFs per year. About 60 percent of TF output for the world will come from the United States, while 40 percent will come from Europe. The automaker will also use a third plant in China to build MG sedans. The new MG cars will go on sale in the United States in early summer 2008, the automaker said.

Good:
- MGs are comming back to the United States
- Some of the MGs will be built in the United States
- How often do you get to say your car was built in Oklahoma?

Bad:
- MGs are being built by a Chinese company
- I doesn't look like we will have the SV
- MGs don't have a great history with most Americans, given that the brand has not been here for some time.

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It all sounds great, IMO. It sounds as though we would be getting the TF for sure, and I would hope the rest of the range is comming as well. From my side of the pond, I would say the ZT looks to be an appealing model...
 
YSSMAN
Good:
- MGs are comming back to the United States
- Some of the MGs will be built in the United States
- How often do you get to say your car was built in Oklahoma?

Bad:
- MGs are being built by a Chinese company
- I doesn't look like we will have the SV
- MGs don't have a great history with most Americans, given that the brand has not been here for some time.
I'll fix your list for you:
Good:
- Some of the MGs will be built in the United States
- How often do you get to say your car was built in Oklahoma?
- It doesn't look like we will have the SV (Beleive me, it was crap. $90,000 for what is essentially a Mustang. And an ugly one at that. The chassis was developed, by DeTamaso of all companies, way back in 1996.)


Niether-Nor:
- MGs are being built by a Chinese company (as long as they figure out that they need good cars in order to sell them)
- MGs don't have a great history with most Americans, given that the brand has not been here for some time. (A better thing for the brand than selling the cars they were selling in the U.K. from 1990-2004. It would have done enough brand damage that even GM would have laughed at them)


Bad:
- MGs are comming back to the United States (if and only if they start selling the same crap that put them out of buisiness in the first place)
 
Let MG live!!! As long as they can survive, it should work. The next thing I would be questioning is quailty.
 
So it looks like MG's of the future will be built and developed by the british, chinese and americans. And as things go right now none of these companies have a reputation for making class leading cars, let alone ones that wont fall to pieces.

Its gonna take quite a bit to get people to put theyre trust back into the brand.
 
Dude this is SWEET news. The ZT is a great car that needs to be here. I know British people don't like MG (or Rover specifically?) but here in America it's more choice and more competition assuming the prices won't be too high. If they price the cars to the market and not price the cars for themselves they'd sell here. Maybe this can also mean the return of Rover over here? It beats having these companies not exsist anymore, even if it's a Chinese company that owns them. I don't see this as a bad thing overall, as long as the Chinese hire some good supervisors and board members from established companies--hell hire some of the employees that worked in the UK and ship 'em over here. Oklahoma is a good quiet pretty state, most of the "rude" "snob" Americans aren't located here. Just loads and loads of hicks. I'd actually consider moving to the town where the plant is being built and work there. I doubt the UAW would dare try something with the Chinese. ;)
 
I'm just happy to be getting something "different" that we haven't had in the US for quite some time. MGs, Alfas, Peugeots, Renaults, etc would all be welcomed in the US because it isn't a Chevrolet or Toyota.

They may not have been well liked in Europe, but I imagine that we are willing to give them a shot in the US. Car and Driver did a pretty big article on the then-current lineup of MG models a few years back, and they came away feeling pretty good.
 
TwinTurboJay
MG will be the new Daiwoo

That's Daewoo. Otherwise, you're probably spot on.

Nanjing bought MG for the same reason other Chinese companies pirate technology... to save on development costs so they can sell cheap products.

Just how cheap? How would you like late-90's cars around 2010? MG cars weren't really state-of-the-art when they folded... but when they're re-released in the next two or three years? With crash-test scores that won't even show up on the (then) current NCAP tests? :lol:

But, considering they're going to the tremendous expense of putting up a factory in Oklahoma.. here's to hoping that they'll have money to burn on development and updating. Good luck to them.
 
They had BETTER step up the quality. Make something like the old MGBs...only competitive wiht the Miata.
 
Technically I belive the TF is successor to the MGB, and would theoretically be a "compeditor" to the Miata.

TF:
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ZS:
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ZT:
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...Those I presume are the models that would be comming to the US, the only questionable model is the ZR:

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Well....

I've heard the TF is...well....

....Not a very good car in today's marketplace. let's hope that quality gets better than the Rover days.
 
YSSMAN

ZT/Rover 75 FTW! God that's a great looking car. Anyone that knows nothing about it really should watch the TopGear review of it...just ignore some of Clarkson's obviously negative entertaining comments. It has a great noise too. 👍
 
By the way the TF is horrible, I test drove one and the older style MGF. Both had horrible parts bin interiors, the handling and ride was not exactly what I expected from a sporty car, also the gearbox was pretty bad. The K-Series engine was pretty nice, but then it's got a reputation of eating headgaskets.

Also don't get me started on the other rovers which are pretty much based off 10+ year old honda chassis.

I'm sure the quality will improve with the Chinese behind it.
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thats half sarcasm and half true probably.
 
I'd hapily buy a quasi-Chinese MG over a fully-Chinese Cherry...
 
YSSMAN
I'd hapily buy a quasi-Chinese MG over a fully-Chinese Cherry...

+1 Indeed, even if the build quality is the same as least MG's look better. :lol:
 
YSSMAN
Technically I belive the TF is successor to the MGB, and would theoretically be a "compeditor" to the Miata.
No way. The MG TF wasn't even as good as the first gen Miata. The suspension was rediculously stiff, but the car didn't handle well enough to make up for it. The interior reeks of every poor quality plastic from every other Rover, and the only great thing about them was the Rover K, which doesn't quite have enough power to cut it anymore.
 
^ Good to know. I'm really unsure of the MG product line history much beyond what older models were sold in the US, and what I have herd of the lineup from Top Gear and CAR.
 
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