The MG XPower SV-R - the car that would remind the world what MG was all about. This V8 brute was the offspring of the MG Rover group, which operated between 2000 and 2005. The group was formed after BMW sold its Rover subsidiary for a whopping £10 in May 2000, and it was bought by a group of businessmen known as the Phoenix Consortium, headed by ex-Rover Chief Exec John Towers.