Chinese Making MGs in Oklahoma

But right in the heart of America — Oklahoma, actually, at Ardmore — China’s oldest carmaker says it will build an assembly plant to build MGs, the old English sports car brand.

Nanjing Automobile Corp. will establish a manufacturing facility and parts distribution center at Ardmore and make Oklahoma City its global headquarters for sales, marketing and distribution outside of Asia. A research and development facility will be housed at the University of Oklahoma at Norman.

Oklahoma, always considered one of the most conservative of states, to be the home of a company from a Communist nation? Who would have ever thought of that?

Nanjing bought MG Rover Group Ltd. last year and plans to invest more than $2 billion to reintroduce the car in China and Europe as well as build the Oklahoma plant.

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