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MG returns to international motorsport

It is a bit unusual that we should show these news here. But MG Rover Austin BMC etc have such a large heritage, not only in rallying, that we should not completely ingnore the revival of this brand. So the following article has nothing to do with rallying. However about 6 weeks ago Longbridge has started production again. And within weeks they announce a motorsport program? Even if it is not rallying, we can only congratulate them!

The first car to leave the Longbridge production lines after 6 years of total standstill is the all new MG6. This car is produced in two versions, a nice and functional 5-door liftback called MG6 GT and a 4-door saloon version called the MG6 Magnette. So even legendary MG names are used again, while the Chinese owners even point out loud that MG stands for Morris Garages and that the new MG6 is designed in Britain for the British market. Next should be a hatchback of the Focus segment called the MG5. They also returned the MG TF for sale for the moment, and – though just a rumour – it could soon be replaced by a retro design MGB-like modell.

If you want to learn more about the MG, Morris, BMC, etc history, read here.

http://www.rallye-info.com/carmake_profile.asp?make=23 and maybe here

http://www.rallye-info.com/carmake_profile.asp?make=38

For the future, please read the following press release, and why not take a look at the new MG web site: http://www.mg.co.uk/

Chris Biewer

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MG is returning to international motorsport in an exciting move which could see the iconic marque taking part in the world’s most famous endurance race.

MG Motor UK has teamed up with Team RLR, which runs an MG Lola EX265 sports prototype in the Le Mans Series of endurance races throughout Europe.

Next year the Bolton-based team hopes to take part in the Le Mans 24-hour race and will use this season to gain valuable racing experience. The next round of the 2011 Le Mans Series takes place at Silverstone on September 11 when the MG Lola, carrying the famous MG octagon logo, will fight it out for six hours in the LMP2 class against some of the top racing teams in Britain.

News of MG’s return to international racing was announced recently when Team RLR and the MG Lola visited MG Motor UK’s factory at MG Birmingham.

The MG Lola sat alongside the recently launched MG6 Magnette sports saloon and the MG6 GT fastback as details of the motorsport deal was announced.

Classic Cars – MGB GT | Kirkwooller Classic

The first time in 1962 launched, searched the two MGB seats and felt very modern and put into a bourgeois of the “sixties” embody. The car was obviously a time-honored virtues MG strong and inherited classes, and most buildings of its predecessor, the MGA is now desired.

Morris Garages in Cowley, Oxford, built, engineers took the MGA 1492 cc B-series and up to 1798 ccm more newly drilled, and the application of the same quantity of the engine compartment and the MGA MGB increases the production of 94 healthy horses. This gave a lively performance sports car with a top speed of 103 miles per hour. The MGB was OD 0-60 in 11.4 seconds. The engine was a high torque in the higher speed, and it was famous for predictable handling car, you throw in the corner without losing control, unlike many other sports cars of this period, made popular MGB of two young and old.

In the summer of 1965, as The Byrds were number one in the UK charts, the MG cut very desirable and elegant MGB GT Fastback has started.

The elegant lines of the MGB GT, Italian Carrozzeria Pininfarina of companies, has produced the design developed for Peugeot and Ferrari.

The GT has a back door, which was technically a 2 +2 back seat so small that a dog had difficulty in sitting, and was often equipped with sunroof leather could be. The additional weight, the low-end acceleration of the GT was not as good as the construction industry, they are naturally aerodynamic shape and the lines gave a top speed of 106 miles per hour.

The production of the MGB continued under the auspices of the nationalization BLMC British Leyland, or if it was known since 1968, but the MGB has been a bad investment, even if the export of high-Britain, the U.S. automotive market for many a year.

In 1973, made after much demand from fans of British Leyland a genuine attempt, MGB GT pack a punch much more competitive and provide the car with 137 hp 3.5-liter V8 engine Rover!

Suddenly, the lady driving the picturesque British reached a top speed of 125 mph and do 0-60 in an impressive 8.4 seconds. In many ways, the MGB GT V8 was to “first hot hatch ‘Britains right!”

The new alloy engine weighed about four pounds less than the old B-series regular, the treatment was greatly improved. Unfortunately, the sale of the car worse than its heavy fuel consumption is not well with the oil crisis and petrol rationing, which occurred when the car started BLMC.

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