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MG is a British automotive marque founded by Cecil Kimber in the 1920s, and M.G. Car Company Limited was the British sports car manufacturer existing between 1930 and 1972 that made the marque well known. Since 2007, the marque is controlled by Chinese state-owned automaker SAIC Motor.
MG’s first model, the Super Sports Morris, was road registered in August of 1923, with six cars being put together in Queen Street. Two years later came the brand’s first foray into motorsports with “Old Number One,” custom-built on a Morris Cowley chassis.
Since its creation in the early 1920’s, MG cars have been controlled by a succession of different companies and organisations and today this famous sporting brand is going from strength to strength under the direction of the Chinese-based automotive giant SIAC Motor Corporation.
MG is first established as Morris Garages by British motoring pioneer William Morris in 1924. Behind the scenes however, it's General Manager Cecil Kimber who proposes the idea of faster cars with a sportier look. To do this, Kimber re-bodies and tunes up existing Morris car models. In 1930, MG releases its first model: the 14/28 Super Sports.
The MG cars history is one steeped in innovation, resilience, and a profound passion for motorsports. Emerging in the 1920s, MG quickly became an automotive tour de force renowned for stunning roadsters and racing excellence.
English marque MG turns 100 this year. At that age, the brand has every right to smell a little musty, like a library full of Dickens and Austen. Instead—and even as its current incarnation turns to EVs —the octagonal badge remains all hot metal and sun-warmed leather, perhaps with a dash of oil. The smell, in other words, of vintage ...
MG’s first model, the Super Sports Morris, was road registered in August of 1923, with six cars being put together in Queen Street. Two years later came the brand’s first foray into motorsports with Old Number One, custom-built on a Morris Cowley chassis.
MG has represented the best of British car design for over 90 years, but it’s not always been a smooth ride. We trace the history behind this consistently innovative and performance-driven brand.
In the 1920’s and 30’s, MG were the car manufacturer the everyday enthusiast could afford to aspire. They won races, broke speed records and and defined the term ‘popular sports car’ on both sides of the Atlantic.
From 1950 to 1980, MG was the ubiquitous sports car in the United States. In places like New York, California and New Jersey, they were virtually everywhere. However, the roots of MG date back all the way to the mid-1920s, even though few MGs made it to North America prior to 1946.