MG Motor UK’s parent company, SAIC, ended 2010 with astonishing sales figures – with the MG brand performing particularly well>
SAIC, the biggest automotive company in China, says final year end figures are confirmed at 3.58 million, up 31.5% on 2009, and set a new record.
Passenger cars sales alone totalled 2,279,000 and increased by almost 42% on the previous year. The huge company has long-established joint ventures with a number of other companies, including GM and VW.
Last year the MG and Roewe brands had outstanding results with sales up 77 per cent to total 160,000.
MG Motor UK will soon be adding to the 2011 sales figures with the launch of the MG6 sports fastback model, the first all-new MG to be launched in Britain in 16 years.
SAIC’s UK technical centre sits alongside the main car assembly hall at the MG Birmingham site, where final assembly of the MG6 will take place.
A team of around 300 engineers and designers from the Birmingham site were responsible for the design and engineering development of the MG6 which is already on sale in China.
Total car sales in China in 2010 reached more than 18-million. UK car sales last year totalled just over 2-million.