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[perkins]

Aux dernières nouvelles les discussions sont toujours en cours pour établir une usine MG à Ardmore,  mais aucun accord n'a encore été trouvé :

 "Ardmore car plant talks continue" (NewsOK.com.20/06/2007)
"Negotiations to build a Nanjing Automobile Co. manufacturing plant in Ardmore continue as Italian carmaker Fiat cuts ties with the Chinese automaker for backing out of a planned investment.
Norman attorney Marc Nuttle, who helped broker the talks, said Tuesday discussions continued as recently as Friday. "We're still working, but we have not reached agreement yet, and there are complicated issues,” Nuttle said, citing intellectual property rights. When asked if he saw an end to negotiations, he said it's a matter of "what they're capable of doing. I don't know what they're capable of.”
The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Monday that Fiat no longer would produce new models at the joint Nanjing Fiat plant and would leave the joint venture's management team because of Nanjing's disappointing performance, including failure to invest in the partnership.
From Staff Reports"
SOURCE : NewsOK.com. (20/06/2007)

[perkins]

Cela faisait longtemps que l'on n'avait plus de nouvelles du "projet d'usine MG aux U.S.A". Selon l'un des principaux investisseurs, Marc NUTTLE, les discussions sont toujours en cours, les dirigeants de Nanjing Automobile, qui sont en train de fusionner avec la SAIC, devraient donner certaines précisions d'ici la fin de cette année 2007 : en tous cas, l'un des représentants du gouvernement chinois a appelé hier NUTTLE pour dire que le projet d'usine MG était maintenu.



Le concept MG GT (2003), un des modèles qui a déjà été évoqué pour le marché américain
Source :
By Paul Monies
The Oklahoman
A government-mandated consolidation of the Chinese auto industry has put on hold a project to build MG sports cars in Oklahoma, one of the dealmakers said Tuesday.
But Norman attorney Marc Nuttle, who formed Oklahoma Global Motors LLC with China's Nanjing Automobile Group Corp., said he still hopes the project will get a green light from the Chinese government by the end of the year. Nanjing is merging with larger rival Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp.

"Right now, they're in restructuring mode, and I don't know what they're going to do,” Nuttle said. "They merged with Shanghai, and there's nothing we can do about it. It's not Oklahoma's or the Chickasaw's fault; that's the state of international business.”

The MG auto plant was to be north of Ardmore on tribal land owned by the Chickasaw Nation and next to the Ardmore Airpark. The project was expected to create up to 500 jobs, including several in Norman and Oklahoma City.

Nuttle stopped short of calling the MG deal dead.

"They still contact me on a regular basis to let me know they're still interested,” Nuttle said of his Chinese partners. "There's nothing I can do to help them until they restructure the company.”

Nuttle said an upcoming Chinese Communist Party conference — which opens next week — may provide some clues to the direction of the restructuring effort in the Chinese automobile industry. There are more than 127 Chinese auto manufacturers, but the Chinese government wants just eight, Nuttle said.

He said other possibilities for Ardmore wouldn't be dismissed while the MG project is on "indefinite hold.”

"We're talking to other companies, and there are companies that would like to come here, but the MG brand was a key component to the business plan,” Nuttle said.

Nuttle made his remarks at Global Fusion Oklahoma, an international business conference being held this week in Oklahoma City.


Airport expansion
In the meantime, plans are progressing for the $35 million International Trade Center project at the Ardmore airport, he said. The air cargo hub would serve more than 12 million people within a 350-mile radius of Ardmore.
Nuttle said as coastal ports get increasingly congested and unable to expand, the next wave of logistics will be the development of inland ports that connect air, rail and roads.

"We are trying to develop one of the top air cargo just-in-time manufacturing/assembly/distribution warehousing centers in the United States in Ardmore, Oklahoma,” Nuttle said. "It's an old military base that the state and city of Ardmore put millions of dollars into to bring it up to scale as a ‘Class A' world cargo airport.”

Wes Stucky, president of the Ardmore Development Authority, said TTK Construction Co. has been awarded the $14,085,000 bid to build a runway extension at the Ardmore Airpark to accommodate freight planes.

That money came from a $15 million grant from the state's Opportunity Fund, an incentive program passed in 2006 to close economic development deals. Nuttle's Oklahoma Global Motors received a $5 million, short-term loan from the Opportunity Fund for start-up costs on the MG project. The company repaid that earlier this year along with $102,779 in interest.

Stucky said other improvements are being made at the airport for water lines and roads. Construction is expected to start by early 2008, he said.

Nuttle said Ardmore officials also have held preliminary discussions with railway operator BNSF Railway Co. to connect the airport with the railroad's expansion plans in Dallas.

"We'd be part of the Chicago-Dallas route for loading and storage,” Nuttle said. "What we're trying to do is coordinate in a national distribution system and find our place. BNSF is being as cooperative as they can, but they've made no commitments.”
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[Jeudi]

Le croquis est différent de la photo, au niveau du côté arrière vers les feux.

[perkins]

Le croquis est différent de la photo, au niveau du côté arrière vers les feux.

Oui, le croquis (présenté en 2006) semble être la version modifiée du premier design qui remonte à 2003, la "MG GT Concept" a le même châssis que la MG TF, à l'époque de MG ROVER elle était censée être équipée du KV6 200ch. J'ai mis ces illustrations car les annonces faites en juillet 2006 par Duke Hale faisaient référence à ce modèle, mais il est possible que le modèle produit (si cela arrive...) soit encore sensiblement différent.
Il est évident que les chinois ont intérêt à favoriser ce projet pour contourner les barrières douanières américaines (et autres formalités), leur projet est mondial depuis le début du rachat de MG ROVER. Ce projet américain était déjà dans les plans de "Phoenix Four"(MG ROVER) en 2004.   

[Rover820i]

Ce serait, à mon sens, une mauvais idée de mettre un V6 là dessous. Un 4 pattes turbo survitaminé et moins glouton serait mieux

[perkins]

Le concept MG GT avait été réalisé, sous la forme d'une pré- production, à Longbridge. Sur ce modèle le bouclier avant est différent de celui du croquis  :


spyshot de 2006

[serpentin]

quels abrutis à Longbridge, voila ce qui manquait une vraie remplaçante à la MGB GT 

pour le KV6, j'aime bien sa sonorité mais pour pouvoir posséder des performance sproches de l'opel GT ou de la Lotus Elise, un petit 4 cylindre turbos serait mieux à condition d'y mettre uen boîte 6, le 1.8T, on a beosin de toi!!!

[bricar]

pour les americain il faut un v6 ou v8 boite auto

[Rover820i]

pour les americain il faut un v6 ou v8 boite auto

Les tendances sont en train de s'inverser, la population américaine se penche de moins en moins vers les gros V6/V8 gloutons

[serpentin]

le compartiment moteur accepterai un KV6 turbo si quand bien même il existerait?

[perkins]

L'un des porte-paroles de Nanjing Automobile, Liu Ning, vient  d'affirmer à l'agence Bloomberg qu'un accord pourrait être signé à Beijing  avec les américains dès ce  mois de décembre pour la production des MG dans l'Etat d'Oklahoma, les discussions avaient été mises en sommeil pendant la phase de fusion.
Sources : forum mg rover.org   
Nanjing Automobile spokesman Liu Ning Health in an interview with Bloomberg news agency also said, "We may be in Beijing this month sign an agreement with the United States of Oklahoma, opened plant plans, had been shelved pending the completion of the merger."
http://cn.ibtimes.com/articles/20071212/shangnanqi.htm