Mg returned. Is it so? It’s hard to say so far. You can read everything about the “official” return of MG on the right, but now our attention is focused on SV-R.
Remember the flagship of the MG Model Row? The intricate, absurd, as if a pregnant car that began his life under the name De Tomaso Bigua at the 1996 Geneva Motor Show. And continued it in the soulless Qvale Mangusta before finally becoming MG in 2001. And the SV-R version generally appeared in 2004. After all, then there were strong rivals from TVR with their cars, worth about about? 45. 000 — so supercar with a completely carbon body, standing? 85. 000 did not.
Indeed, only a few of them found the owners, but Mg Rover decided that the SV-R was actually dead and the production was curtailed. And this would have ended, if not for Will Riley’s intentions (and the fame of his cars).
He intervened and bought the idea of a long-abandoned chassis from the MG Rover directorate, which was called Prisuoterhaus-Cums. The subsequent years of his life, Riley devoted to the development of bodies from composite materials on the basis of this chassis, and commissioning of production, but now under the name MG Sport and Racing Europe Ltd.
Leaving aside issues regarding authorship and the use of MG emblems on the car, he incurred a stormy discussion by the Chinese company NAC, which is going to return the MG TF (a trial may be aroused on this occasion — see below on the right). However, Will has something to reflect the lawsuit: he progressed MG cars and even created an electric version on their basis.
But nothing reinforces the correct direction of Riley’s thoughts as a 5-liter V8 from Ford Mustang. Now it sounds an order of magnitude better, and develops 532 liters. With. on the flagship version of WR-SVS, which goes with the compressor. Standard Ford motor issues 380 «horses».
The numbers declared for this version are as follows: acceleration to 100 km/h for 3. 6 seconds and maximum speed 333 km/h. The carbon fiber body helps to achieve such dynamics and speed, with which the weight of the car is only 1400 kg.
The price range ranges from? 75. 000 to? 86. 000. Rumor about the «naked» version of «Club Sport» with a 593 -liter engine. With. Also, in the aerodynamic pipe, tests are held in a folding top, and a version of fiberglass and a 3-liter engine. She will cost? 35. 000.
Keep a new production line, which, incidentally, is located in Tenbari Vells, in Vorzestshire, it is difficult. Unfortunately, only 3 cars have been sold at the moment, but Riley, who serves as a car consultant of his company, expects to sell 2000 cars a year in the future.
It sounds a little implausible, but Riley is optimistic. “There was a gap on the market that freed the TVR, and I suppose we have a worthy car, and it will be able to take an empty place,” he told us.
Under the leadership of the Nanjing Automobile Corporation, the release of cars in Longbridge will resume on August 1. The first MG to get out of the wing of the Chinese owners will be the MG TF LE500, and the first car is opened on September 9. NAC (Nanjing Automotive Corporation) assures that TF (below) was seriously finalized, although it uses the old 136-horsepower 1. 8 liter motor and mechanical 5-speed gearbox PG1.
However, 150 orders have already been made, a thick dealer network throughout Britain has been deployed, there are several points in China, where MG cars are considered quite competitive. Further, it is planned to release three completely new models made for Longbridge. But the leaders say that they are not chasing large sales.