MG Motor

MG Motor is a British automotive manufacturer owned by the Chinese state-owned carmaker SAIC Motor, built on the MG marque that Cecil Kimber founded in Oxford in 1924. SAIC gained control in December 2007 by acquiring Nanjing Automobile Corporation, which had bought the brand in 2005 after the collapse of MG Rover Group. Vehicles are designed and developed by SAIC and mostly built in China, with plants in Thailand, India, Indonesia and Taiwan, and the Longbridge plant in England assembled cars only between 2007 and 2016. The first all-new MG model in sixteen years, the MG6, launched in 2011, and the ZS, HS and the electric MG4 later drove strong sales growth in Britain and Europe. In 2023 MG Motor sold about 840,000 vehicles worldwide, 88 percent of them outside China, and since 2019 it has been the largest single-brand car exporter from China.