MG will end UK production

The MG3 (shown) was the only model that the Chinese-owned British automaker was still making in Longbridge.

September 23, 2016 05:00 AM

MG Motor will stop making cars in the UK this year after its owner, SAIC Motor, decided to move final assembly of the MG3 to China from Longbridge, central England.

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