The first MG cars were a sales promotion in the early 1920s for Morris Garages, a sales and service centre in Oxford, owned by William Morris, founder of the Morris Motors.

The sales manager, Cecil Kimber, came up with the idea of offering specially modified Morris Oxfords (wonder where they got that name from?) with an "MG Super Sports" badge. That's right, MG was essentially to Morris what HSV was to Holden...

Toyota's bZ4X EV is the result of a collaboration between a number of separate companies under the Toyota Group umbrella, including aa joint venture between Aisin and Denso called Blue Nexus which builds the e-Axle, while Subaru (which Toyota owns 20% of) was brought in for its AWD expertise.

Old Speckled Hen took its name from an MG experimental car called the Featherlight Saloon. The car's body was made of a wooden frame covered with gold-speckled black cellulosed fabric, earning its name when it started being used as a runaround for workers in the MG factory.

In 1979, MG celebrated the 50th anniversary of its move from Oxford to Abingdon and asked brewers Morland & Co to create a special commemorative beer for the occasion, for which they would suggest the name and would also design the label.

Kia offers the EV6 in four different forms: Air, Earth, GT Line and the full-blown performance GT.

While the MG4 is the company's cheapest EV, the petrol-powered MG3 comes in at $20,490 for the entry Core model. You do have to pay a Clean Car fee on top of that, but then MG are offering to cover that at the moment.

Mazda has stuck with the rotary engine for almost 60 years, recently ticking up its 2 millionth example after putting a rotary-powered vehicle back into production in the form of the MX-30 R-EV range extender.

Following the collapse of the MG Rover Group in 2005, Chinese carmaker Nanjing Automobile snapped up the MG brand and its Longbridge plant in the UK. Two years later, in 2007, the SAIC Motor Corporation absorbed Nanjing Automobile, getting MG with the deal.

Following on from the popular Atto 3, BYD launched the Dolphin small hatch in New Zealand. Next up; the very handsome Seal sedan.

MG created its XPower brand in 2001 to be its motorsport arm. It created a number of concept cars based on the TF and ZT, but its first actual production car was the mighty Ford V8-powered MG XPower SV from 2003.

The MG Cyberster concept car was unveiled in 2021, while a pre-production version was shown this year. It is due to go on sale later next year and will be available in two different versions; a 230kW RWD model and a 400kW AWD model.