10 years of modern MG celebrated at ZedTen

The Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridge, played host to more than just old aircraft on Sunday.

Not yet classics but by no means modern either, the Zed series from MG Rover has, believe it or not, been going for 10 years now.

Enthusiasts swarmed from all over the country to celebrate the birthday of the series that, at present, finds itself caught between the classic MGs and the models from the new Chinese owners.

The ZR, ZS and ZT models were released back in 2001 with the sceptics saying that the sporty counterparts of the respective Rover variants would not be successful.

Luckily for these budding classic car owners the sceptics were wrong and today there are still around 90,000 of the Zed series still on the roads in the UK.

Now you may be thinking, ‘this is all well and good but how long can these cars survive…