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Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 09:53 in people, garage, rover, mg, corporate business
Former Longbridge worker Tony Dudley has laid solid new foundations for his garage business – by building an MOT bay himself. The former MG Rover panel beater spent five days helping lay down a total of 27 tons of concrete to mark the latest key mi...
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Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 06:30 in Chinese, ford, volvo, rover, mg, corporate business
This isn’t exactly British car news, but Swedish car maker Volvo is heading into Chinese hands, after owner Ford announced that Geely is in pole position to buy the struggling manufacturer. Following in the footsteps of MG Rover’s sale to Sha...
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Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 18:38 in classic cars, auction, aston martin, db2, racing and competion
A 1950 Aston Martin that raced twice at Le Mans sold for 550,000 pounds ($900,000) at an auction in London last night as demand contracted for other high-value classic cars. The dark blue DB2 Team Car came fifth and third in the French 24-hour race i...
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Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 20:58 in people, pink, mg, scca, mae mims
BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. — Donna Mae Mims, the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America national championship in 1963, has died. She was 82. Mims died Tuesday of complications following a stroke, said Aaron Beinhauer, director of Beinhauer Family S...
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Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 20:54 in Economy, saic, mg, corporate business, longbridge
Chinese-owned MG Motor U.K., the British sports-car marque, is to halt production of its TF sports car for six months, not resuming until March next year. Sales of the low-volume sports car, the only vehicle now built at the once-massive Longbridge f...
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Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 08:39 in saic, rover, mg, corporate business, guy jones, tf le500
Jones will take responsibility for UK sales, marketing, PR and aftersales, as well as the development of the MG brand. He has previously worked as brand manager at Bentley and marketing director at Kia UK. ‘MG is a much loved iconic British brand t...
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