MG is a British automotive marque founded by Cecil Kimber in the 1920s, & was the marque well known as a sports car manufacturer existing between 1930 and 1972. MG cars had their roots in a 1920s sales promotion sideline of Morris Garages, a retail sales and service centre in Oxford belonging to William Morris. MG underwent many changes in ownership over the years. Morris's Nuffield Organization merged with Austin to create the British Motor Corporation Limited (BMC) in 1952. It was a part of a merger that created British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC). The marque continued to be used by the successors of BLMC: British Leyland, the Rover Group and, by the start of 2000, the MG Rover Group, which entered receivership in 2005. The MG marque, along with other assets of MG Rover, was purchased by Nanjing Automobile Group (which merged into SAIC Motor in 2007). Production of MG vehicles restarted in 2007 in China under Chinese ownership.

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