I think the problem is that the car is considerably modified and therefore doesn’t appeal to classic car buyers – for the same reason, I didn’t think it worth listing with the MG Owners’ Club.

Yep, at the time the plan was for MG to step away from modified Rovers and move further ... but when the production-spec XPower SV was eventually shown to the press in late 2002 it was radically ...

When launched in 2003, the MG XPower SV came with a 4.6-litre Ford ... Officially rated at 390hp and 376lb ft, rumours ...

A final, fitted price of $6000 would still see the modified MG 4 XPower cost about $66,000 on the road – depending on where you live – which, for a car capable of 0–100km/h in 3.8 seconds ...

This time it has to do with British entrepreneur Will Riley, who somehow established himself as the force behind the MG X-Power even though MG branding rights had been purchased by China’s Nanjing.

Back to the car itself, the XPower SV features a Ford Mustang-sourced 4.6-liter V8 with 320hp (324PS). The rear-wheel drive model was built in Modena, Italy, and finished at MG’s Longbridge ...