Worrying cracks hiding behind MG Motor's own ‘house of Windsor'
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' – reads the opening line of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. The beginning of the famous 1859 novel perhaps best describes an automobile manufacturer in the country – Morris Garages India (now JSW MG Motor India). It is the best of times for the company, which has a vintage British lineage and a Chinese patronage through SAIC Motor Corporation, is smiling through the lanes of India's
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