MG launches MG6 BTCC Special Edition - Page 5

Maxxed_Ross · 23-10-12, 05:24 AM

no it's just another poor effort like their stickered up "btcc replica" every other team has a car with the right body kit, right bucket seats and a roll cage... what do MG have? A totally standard MG6 with tiny black wheels and some stickers. Come on it's not even got a rear wing!

Someone posted pictures of the Rowe 550 (I think it was) just before the 6 was launched here and it looked fantastic... then the 6 was such a let down. I spoke to MG at MG live the year it was launched (when Dreadnought were sponsored by MG) and they were pointing out all the bits that would be changed from the Chineese spec car at the show (bigger wheels, lower stance, rear wing and higher quality interior plastics) - then what do you know, nothing changed.

peterzs · 23-10-12, 09:40 AM

You do get the feeling that UK sales arnt all that important. Think they wanted the name for the Racing Heritage and the past history of MG. Sounds like the sales figures for China are doing OK, so it must be working.

888 engineering must be a great crowd, to take the car out of the box and getting it up among the winners from its first outing.

Sure Plato played his part in grabbing it by the neck and driving its tyres off.

Certainly made the BTCC more interesting with the MG and Plato, know some dont rate Neate, but maybe the money he brought to the table helped some of it happen.

POMPSKI · 23-10-12, 10:19 AM

Just posted by Browns & Gammon on FB.

Apart from the back I quite like it tbh, yes it has hardly been touched, but I still find it pretty nice...

"Every BTCC Special Edition will also have Racing black gloss sills, door mirror covers, lower front air dam and rear spoiler."

supercover · 26-10-12, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by peterzs

You do get the feeling that UK sales arnt all that important. Think they wanted the name for the Racing Heritage and the past history of MG. Sounds like the sales figures for China are doing OK, so it must be working.

888 engineering must be a great crowd, to take the car out of the box and getting it up among the winners from its first outing.

Sure Plato played his part in grabbing it by the neck and driving its tyres off.

Certainly made the BTCC more interesting with the MG and Plato, know some dont rate Neate, but maybe the money he brought to the table helped some of it happen.

The UK is of no importance to MG at the moment.
Also, the only thing MG UK gave to 888 was a pair of ex development LHD shells they had hanging about at Longbridge, and a small lump of cash. Everything else in the car is BTCC spec kit used by all the other teams running an NGTC car. It does show that 888 are the best car developers out there and have one of the best drivers to get that of a newly developed pile of parts that are virtually the same as every one elses.