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Monday, 14 April 2008 - 17:57

Driving force



This is one of the two MG X-power cars I drove last week in between photographing them for The Daily Telegraph.
I hadn't expected to get a chance to drive them, but X-Power boss William Riley thought I should get the full experience after photographing the production line near Tenbury Wells.
Wonderful cars, especially the supercharged 5.2 litre carbon-fibre bodied one. If I had a spare £90,000 then I would definitely place an order.

Will is a member of the famous Riley motoring dynasty. My wife's grandmother learnt to drive in a huge old Riley, and my own grandfather drove a police 'Pathfinder' Riley like the one in front on the poster. The MG X's are being built at the rate of six a month-with most so far going out to the USA. Meanwhile Nanjjing Automobile who bought the MG plant at Longbridge have yet to produce a single car.

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