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Nanjing plans to build this TF roadster in China next year. A plant in Oklahoma is also planned, but we'll have to wait until 2008.

NANJING, China — Nanjing Automobile plans to send the first locally built MG TF roadster down the assembly line at its hometown plant next March 27 — the 60th anniversary of the Chinese automaker.

Nanjing Auto bought the rights to the tooling from the defunct MG Rover group in England. The company has said it will revive production in that country, as well as building a small assembly facility in the United States.

But the first cars will roll off the line in Nanjing, where a new factory will have the capacity to build 200,000 MG cars a year. Nanjing plans to send some of the cars as kits to the former MG plant in Longbridge, England, for final assembly.

The company plans to begin assembling MGs at a new site in Oklahoma by 2008.

What this means to you: If Nanjing can successfully build the TF in China by next year it would be a good sign that its plans for production in Oklahoma could become a reality.

Source: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...cleId=116827#2