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Un accord entre GBSC (Great Britain Sports Cars Company, un des candidats à la reprise en juillet) et NAC a été trouvé.
MEANWHILE, reports in today's AUTOCAR magazine claim that Great British Sports Cars (GBSC) and Nanjing Automobile Corporation (NAC) are planning to re-start sports car production at Longbridge. The car - a re-born Austin Healey - based on the defunct MG XPower SV will be treated to a retro-style makeover and strong Austin-Healey 3000 styling cues.
Reported to be powered by 5-litre version of the Ford Mustang V8, and using the existing - and rather advanced - SV running gear, the 'Austin Healey 5000', will see the marque finally return to the car market after a 36 year absence. Autocar magazine reports that the car could be unveiled as early as next year's British Motor show, to be held next July, at the ExCel in London's Docklands...
The deal to build the new sports car would appear to hinge on NAC and GBSC purchasing the profit-making MG Sports and Racing - the offshoot company which was set-up to produce the XPower SV when it became clear that the X80 project was never going to be the volume model MG Rover originally envisaged.
It is also a UK business model for MG, which has been talked about by various parties since the collapse of MG Rover back in April - and would appear to be the most logical way of recouping some of the £30m development costs eaten up by the XPower SV...
According to the same report, the MG TF will be re-introduced as soon as poessible following a light re-vamp, and the introduction of new Audi-sourced engines. The TF platform still has plenty of life left in it (and the potential to be produced in hybrid form, thus stealing a march on its rivals), and at the time of its death earlier this year, it was still the strongest selling car in its sector in the UK.
Modèle envisagé: Austin-Healey 5000 , base MG X Power SV (donc Qvale ex De Tomaso Mangusta, vous suivez toujours
: ), moteur Ford V8 5.0 32v (des Mustang),boîte 6 Tremec.
Une proposition de style (du Profesor Bhaskar, je n'invente rien
)