Sport Utilities
The machinery is up and running. MG Rover officially is back in production with new models for the first time since 1998, but with a "Made in China" sticker on the new sheetmetal now that the brand is the property of Nanjing Automobile Corporation.
The first cars off NAC MG’s new $362-million line in China are the MG TF two-seat convertible sports car (a modern copy of the popular original), and the MG7 series (a sedan based on the Rover 75 and MG ZT) in regular- and long-wheelbase form—all for the Chinese market. Read the rest of this entry »
The Forester is a truck. Never mind the carlike unibody or seat height, an arbitrary decision had to be made, and the Forester is our line in the sand: Anything this tall is a truck, anything shorter is a car. Enough said.
The new Forester that arrived in showrooms in May will continue to be our truck yardstick, even though it’s a hair—0.2 inch—shorter than the 2002 Forester. Every other exterior dimensional change is hardly worth mentioning. The 99.4-inch wheelbase is the same as the 2002′s, length is down by 0.4 inch, and width by 0.2. Read the rest of this entry »