UK geography does not seem to be a strong point at Primedia, publishers of Automobile magazine which today declared in a press release for its March issue: “Jamie Kitman, the New York bureau chief of Automobile recently traveled to Cardiff, home of MG Rover Group, the British parent company, and sat down for a substantive discussion with the company’s top executives”.

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Given that Kitman, who also writes for Britain’s Car magazine, is an apparent Anglophile who regularly writes about the traumas of nursing less-than-reliable classic British cars he owns across the roads of the USA, just-auto suspects he knows that Longbridge, Birmingham, England is really the home of MG Rover.

The in-house PR who issued the press release on his behalf obviously doesn’t.

Cardiff is in Wales and was the launch venue for a new MG range last May.

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