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The first MG6 comes off the production line
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The new MG6 is launched at Longbridge
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The new MG6 makes its entrance
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The new MG6 makes its entrance
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Lisa Ponter drove the first MG6 off the production line
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Lisa Ponter, the only female worker on the production line, stands by the new MG6
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Close-up shots for the new MG6
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Production workers welcome the new MG6
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MGs lined up for distribution
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Last minute checks for the MG6 before it leaves the factory
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Final checks for the MG before it leaves Longbridge
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Sales and marketing director Guy Jones, business services manager Gary Egan and manufacturing manager Craig Osman.
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MG assembly at Longbridge
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MG assembly at Longbridge
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Lisa Ponter on the assembly line at Longbridge
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Inside the new MG6
Volume production is finally back on track at Longbridge – but the Phoenix Four say it could have happened six years ago but for “political chicanery.”
A bitter war of words between the former MG Rover bosses and factory campaigners threatened to overshadow a momentous day at Longbridge, with the launch of the first customer MG6.
The Phoenix Four issued a statement full of praise for the new dawn at the West Midlands’ most famous factory – but attacked the previous Labour Government for killing off MG Rover.
The statement said: “It is a sad irony that the business plan now being put in place by SAIC is virtually the same as the one that failed in 2005 when the Labour Government pulled the plug on it.
“What has happened today could have happened six years ago were it not for the political chicanery and duplicitousness of the last Government.
“Having triggered the death of MG Rover and put thousands of good employees onto the dole, they then spent six years and many millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money trying to shift the blame onto someone else.”
