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MGTF sports-car maker Nanjing Automobile Corporation (NAC) will receive production and assembly equipment from body-in-white panel supplier Stadco Ltd’s Coventry, UK site as part of a recently signed contract.

The equipment will be transferred to NAC’s Longbridge plant and used in the construction of the body of the MGTF sports car. Stadco will install the equipment and also be responsible for the re-launch of body production in Longbridge.

Full production is expected to be achieved by “mid-2007”.

The contract may mark the beginning of “further, long-term co-operation” between Stadco and NAC in Longbridge.

Meanwhile, competing Chinese carmaker Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corp (SAIC), that took possession of the intellectual property rights to the 25 and 75 Rover models when MG/Rover was sold off but recently lost out to Ford in a bid to buy the Rover name, has come up with a new name and new logo.

Rover is out, Roewe is in: the new logo in all its glory

Cars built by the company will be sold under the brand name “Roewe”, according to the Shanghai Daily newspaper, and the first new model will the 750E, which according to the same source, is also to be known as the 'Rong Wei' in Chinese.