MG Sports and Racing Europe Limited was a British automotive company based in Eardiston,

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. The company was founded by William Riley, who acquired assets of the MG Sport and Racing subsidiary of

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after its demise, with the intention of restarting production of the

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, renamed MG XPower WR. The company was registered on 29 January 2007. In December 2009, it was reported in the press that no new cars had been manufactured by MG Sports and Racing Europe since its founding, and that

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proceedings had been initiated by two employees for non-payment of wages. Riley was also arrested by police in 2009 on suspicion of theft of an XPower WR car previously sold to a Canadian businessman who had been working on behalf of the company. Riley's use of the "MG" trademark resulted in a legal dispute with

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, which had also acquired assets of the defunct MG Rover Group. This case was won by Nanjing in February 2010. Consequently, the company name was changed to Sports and Racing Europe Ltd. in March 2010.

Models

The company announced a revised version of the MG XPower SV, renamed the XPower WR, in April 2008. Later the same year a

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variant with a

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bodyshell, the MG XPower SV-S WRC, was announced. MGXPowerSV-gils

Neither model has reached the manufacturing stage as of November 2011.

External links

MG Sports and Racing Europe official website

References

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