MG

MG is a British automotive marque formed in 1923. The company was formed out of Morris Garages, a service centre in Oxford who began to tune Morris vehicles as a side business.

In 1952, MG joined the British Motor Corporation which later joined British Leyland in 1968 and in 1986 formed the Rover Group. From the 1980s the MG name was mainly used to badge-engineer sporty models from associated marques until 1992 when they began producing vehicles of their own again. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, MG were one of the main marques in the group to emerge from the mess of the Rover Group into the ownership of BMW. MG and Rover were sold by BMW in 2000 to a British consortium and formed the MG Rover Group - which ended up being the last domestically owned mass-production car manufacturer in the UK until its demise in 2005.

Motorsport has long held a part of MG's history. In 1958, an MG Magnette was entered into the inaugural British Saloon Car Championship season by Dick Jacobs Garage for Alan Foster.

In 2001, MG returned to the BTCC with a three car effort ran by West Surrey Racing for Anthony Reid, David Leslie and Warren Hughes. The team returned in 2002 with the same lineup.

2003 saw wholesale changes within the team as Leslie departed MG to race in the Swedish Touring Car Championship and Hughes stepping back into a test/reserve driver role within the squad. In their place was young Northern Irish driver Colin Turkington - whom had debuted the season before in a non-work MG - and former Formula One driver Mark Blundell.

Models raced

 * MG Magnette
 * MG ZS