Two police officers were injured today when a car being driven at 90mph on the M6 Toll in Staffordshire smashed into a police vehicle trying to stop it.
Britain's favourite classic sports car, and a Midlands baby, reaches its 90th anniversary this year, and to celebrate the occasion MG will be the featured marque at Simply Classics and Sports Car, at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, on Sunday, August 24.
Britain's favourite classic sports car and a Midlands baby, reaches its 90th anniversary this year, and to celebrate the occasion MG will be the featured marque at Simply Classics and Sports Car, at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, on Sunday, August 24.
A link-up between two historic West Midlands companies has seen the latest car from MG rolling off the Longbridge production line with tyres made by Goodyear.
The long-awaited MG3 super-mini was unveiled for the first time in the UK today at the brand's legendary home at Longbridge.
It is one of the nation's favourite car brands, which has had to start again after being brought back from the brink of extinction.
Peter Rhodes writes: When I was a lad in my beautiful old 1938 MG TA sports car, I used to get flashed by MGBs built four decades later.
The first all-new MG in 16 years rolled off the production line at Longbridge in Birmingham today - with the factory's only female production line worker behind the wheel.
Motoring editor Peter Carroll gets a sneak preview of the first all-new MG since the MG F of 1995. . . and here he gives his thoughts on the Longbridge assembled car.
The Serious Fraud Office dropped its inquiry today into the collapse of car maker MG Rover.
In an age where every other firm seems to turn to China to reduce their manufacturing costs, there's almost a 'coals to Newcastle' feel about the way Nanjing has revived MG production at Longbridge. Motoring editor Peter Carroll takes the revived TF for an extended test and finds the LE500 remains fun to drive - in an 'old school' way.
Up to 300 jobs are to be created in the Black Country when production of a sports car moves to the region next year, it has emerged today.
Fans of the MG were flocking to a Black Country Rover dealer today as it became the first garage in the western world to take delivery of the new model.
The first MG produced at Longbridge in more than three years was unveiled to the world today – as the company revealed it is already working on a replacement model. Watch Peter Carroll's video here.
It is a sight not seen at Longbridge for more than three years – the rolling production track carrying a line of MG sports cars under construction.
