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MG Means "Modern Gentleman" Now
Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on January 12, 2007
MG Means "Modern Gentleman" Now

No longer "Morris Garages" of old. According to those savvy inquisitors over @ Top Gear, they've sussed out the fact that MG's current corporate parents - the executives at Nanjing Automotive - decided that the letters M & G should stand for "modern" and "gentlemen", respectively.

The logic apparently goes something like this - you are what you drive - so if you're a guy who's just bought a brand new MG straight off the assembly line in Oklahoma, you are likely to be thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. Or something of the kind.

Wait, no - that's if you buy a Ford Escape Hybrid.

Read on.

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