Sunday 8th June 2014 Mercedes’ run of dominance at the Canadian Grand Prix came to an end when both cars developed issues with their MGU-K at around half distance. This left them down on power and under threat from the rest of the field, and also put a huge strain on the brakes of both…

Wednesday 28th March 2012 The MG 5, a compact car that has been produced by the British company MG Motor, was launched. It shared the same automotive platform with the Roewe 350 saloon car. The MG 5 debuted in concept car form at the 2011 Shanghai Auto Show as the MG Concept5.

Friday 15th July 2011 The first all-new model from MG in the UK for 16 years, the MG 6, was officially launched. Derived from the Roewe 550, it was distantly related to the Rover 75, sharing its front subframe. The MG 6 was initially announced in April 2009 at the Shanghai Auto Show, as a…

Friday 26th March 2010 Two days before the Australian Grand Prix, Victoria Police witnessed Lewis Hamilton “deliberately losing traction” in his silver Mercedes-AMG C63, and impounded the car for 48 hours. Hamilton immediately released a statement of apology for “driving in an over-exuberant manner”. After being charged with intentionally losing control of a vehicle, Hamilton…

Friday 22nd July 2005 Administrators announced that BL had been sold to Nanjing Automobile, indicating that their preliminary plans involved relocating the Powertrain engine plant to China and splitting car production into Rover lines in China and MG lines in the West Midlands (though not necessarily at Longbridge), where a UK R&D and technical facility…