A year since mass car production returned to Birmingham's Longbridge plant - with the first of the MG6 models rolling off the production lines - MG Motor UK's Chinese owners say they sold 446 cars in the first three months of 2012.
That is better than any of the company's annual sales figures from the past five years, when it was producing the MG TF specialist sports car.
But the figures are a far cry from Longbridge's heyday - when the plant was the largest in a region of the UK which became synonymous with the motor car.
Here - with Professor David Bailey from Coventry University Business School, and Gillian Bardsley from the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust - take a nostalgic look back at how Longbridge, and the whole West Midlands, gave us motors and music.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...siness-17693856
Lots of mentions/pictures of Minis as you might expect.
Enjoy!
Edited by ShoutforJoy, 13 April 2012 - 07:16 AM.
