Hello there, Jeremiah here, slow news day so I have been drafted in to fill some very empty column spaces. Anyway, some bloke said MG is returning to the good old days. I hope bloody NOT! Let’s go back to MG’s good old days shall we? Founded in 1924, went into administration in 2005. That’s it, history lesson over, Hooo-HAAA! Anyway, the 1965 MG BGT was perhaps the most iconic brand the company ever made, it went slowly downhill from that point forward.

The lowest point arrived in the 1980s when MG decided to launch the Montego. God that was a truly bloody awful car that satan and the grim reaper wouldn’t go near. But the ‘good old days’ were far from finished. BMW came along for the ride in 1994 and after a few years, sensing trouble, they fled the scene in 2000 keeping the Mini brand and some of Land Rover’s trade secrets.

But the good old days continued. New owners, the Phoenix Consortium Group, asset stripped what they could get away with for one last hurrah. MG was dead on arrival by 2005. Ultimately China’s largest car manufacturer, the SAIC Group, scooped up MG’s ashes in 2007. SAIC has turned around the fortunes of this historically badly mismanaged car company.

Makes you proud to be British, hooo, and might I add… HAAA!

MG’s good old days are now, not stuck in a 1950s time warp driven by a mythical English gentleman tootling along in his open-top sports coupe darting down a tree-lined twisty English country road during a permanent hazy summer to a throwback era that existed for a few.

Today MG is in a much, much better place now than it has ever been, and it’s thanks to the Chinese who actually want to do proper car business stuff rather properly. I hope MG never returns to the good old days of toffee-nosed charlatans in charge of the Titanic.

Anyway, that’s all for now… go away now.