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Written by Stephen Dobie
The MG badge has changed somewhat over the years. Anyone over the age of 40 will remember neat little two-seat sports cars that prioritised fun and value over actually working properly. Head down an age bracket and you"ll find a bunch of people who aspired to drive a boy racer-ed Rover hatchback once they"d torn up their L-plates. Anyone discovering the brand more recently, though, will be left royally confused. In the last ten years MG has gone from making end-of-the-line special roadsters to an actual pick-up truck, via a small handful of nondescript crossovers. Meet the MG Extender, a pick-up just unveiled in Thailand and almost certainly not for the UK market. It"s not a ground-up MG, as you might expect, but a rebadged Maxus T70. That means it gets a 161bhp 2.0-litre turbodiesel powering the rear wheels as standard, or all four as an option. Yep, it"s the first rear-wheel-drive MG in a decade. Maybe the purists can get on board after all.
Date written: 9 Aug 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16557
The MG badge has changed somewhat over the years. Anyone over the age of 40 will remember neat little two-seat sports cars that prioritised fun and value over actually working properly. Head down an age bracket and you"ll find a bunch of people who aspired to drive a boy racer-ed Rover hatchback once they"d torn up their L-plates. Anyone discovering the brand more recently, though, will be left royally confused. In the last ten years MG has gone from making end-of-the-line special roadsters to an actual pick-up truck, via a small handful of nondescript crossovers. Meet the MG Extender, a pick-up just unveiled in Thailand and almost certainly not for the UK market. It"s not a ground-up MG, as you might expect, but a rebadged Maxus T70. That means it gets a 161bhp 2.0-litre turbodiesel powering the rear wheels as standard, or all four as an option. Yep, it"s the first rear-wheel-drive MG in a decade. Maybe the purists can get on board after all.
Date written: 9 Aug 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16557
