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Few badges have traveled as far as the octagon. MG began in the 1920s at Morris Garages, the Oxford dealership owned by William Morris, and for half a century it stood for affordable open-topped fun: the T-series roadsters that American servicemen shipped home after the war, the MGA and, above all, the MGB, built at Abingdon from 1962 and sold by the hundreds of thousands in the United States. The British story ended messily with the collapse of MG Rover at Longbridge in 2005.

What followed was one of the industry's great reinventions. China's Nanjing Automobile bought the remains, its business was folded into SAIC Motor, and SAIC turned MG into a global value brand built mainly in China and Thailand, with design work still done in London. Cheap, well-equipped and backed by long warranties, the new MGs climbed rapidly up the sales charts in Britain, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, and the MG4 hatchback made the brand one of Europe's biggest sellers of electric cars.

The lineup now runs from the MG3 supermini and the HS family SUV to the MG4, the larger electric models and the Cyberster roadster, a nod to the brand's open-top past. In India, MG operates as JSW MG Motor India, a joint venture with the JSW Group, with its own range that includes the Hector, the Windsor EV and the Majestor. Europe's tariffs on Chinese-built EVs hit SAIC particularly hard, nudging MG toward hybrids and plug-ins, and the brand is not sold new in the United States.

Coverage here spans that sprawling map: launches and reviews in Britain and Australia, a steady flow of new models and special editions in India, fleet and taxi deals in the Gulf, new Chinese-market cars such as the MG 07, tariff and trade news, recalls and sales milestones. It is one of the clearest windows onto how a Chinese automaker uses a century-old British name to win over buyers on several continents at once.