This successful sports car manufacture had been one of the UK’s leading exports to the US, when it was absorbed by BMC in 1952 which eventually starved the company of new product developments. Badge engineering soon became common place which maintained domestic sales at the expense of innovation and ability. The last true MG was produced in Abingdon in 1980, the name was retained for sporting variants right up until 2005.
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