Following on
from last weeks CONVOY to Longbridge organised by Beverley
Miles. It has been decided that another meet will take place on
Sunday to Longbridge!
The idea is folk should either meet at Gaydon in the morning at
10am. Then move onto Q-gate at Longbridge for midday!
If you cant make it at Gaydon - go straight to Q-Gate and park
on the grassy embankment!
This is an XPF led event inviting everyone one line community
and CLUBS associated with MG's to join in!
It would be great if all that come along to wear any forum
T-shirts, MG T-shirts.....Flags etc.
Remember we are doing this for the MGR workforce at Longbridge
and its Franchises, nothing more.
So please let them know your support by attending!
Finally, a new site showing an impartial nature has been set up
and should be live today - it's
www.savemgrover.com If anyone
has any comments to add to it - please mail me on
webmaster@xpower-mg.com
Thanks
Jerry Flint
Site Owner
XPF is in independent site, owned by Max and Jerry Flint and
administered by a team of enthusiastic owners. It is probably
the largest site of its type on the internet!
Below is an
extract from the site and outlines our initiative!
Hi and welcome,
thanks for taking the first step to saving MG Rover.
We hope to
offer some practical advice on what you can do to help reverse
the terrible situation facing our last British Carmaker.
Why?
MG Rover is not
BL of old as the press would have you believe, it’s a highly
effective and potentially profitable car maker, with world
leading technologies and a loyal and highly skilled British
workforce. The products are equal of any and deserve
consideration.
10’s if not
100’s of 1000’s of jobs are at stake. Families throughout the
Midlands and indeed across the country are facing a very
uncertain future through no fault of their own. Its time we
looked after our own and pulled together.
British pride
is at stake. We are the mighty lion that has lost its roar; in
fact it has been castrated as all our major world leading
industries have been eroded. This is the thin end of the wedge.
We are not
biased to any political party; we are just British Citizens that
want British cars made in Britain and to support our fellow
countrymen.
In 2004 we
sponsored WSR and KartWorld. The prize for doing this was our
url on the race cars. We would like to do this again for the
touring cars in 2005 if the opportunity exists.
In the meantime
Project X are running a SV GTR in the British GT championship in
2005 and Paul Kneeshaw has been contacted to see if we can
assist in a small way. Watch the Forums for the any news on
this. See this LINK
too!
Around 80 MG cars
descended on DoningtonPark circuit
at the weekend for the final rounds of the 2004 MSA Green Flag
British Touring Car Championship. But before racing got
underway on Sunday, the MG xpowerforums.com members
presented team principal Dick
Bennetts and
the WSR team with a cheque.
The money was
raised by the forum to show their support of the independently
entered WSR MG BTCC team. The members organised a grand prize
draw of an MG TF two-seater sportscar, the winner of
which will be drawn from the raffle later this year.
Now by far the
busiest MG related website on the internet, XPF caters for
owners and supporters of this historical British marque. The
site offers a member forum, technical section and an extensive
image library, as well as organising social gatherings,
trackdays and factory visits
Upon receiving
the cheque Dick
Bennetts said:
"I'm pleased to accept this kind donation from
xpowerforums.com. Their support throughout the year at
every circuit and in all weather conditions is to be admired. I
know that Anthony (Reid) and Colin (Turkington) have been
particularly appreciative of their vocal support around the
circuit and I hope that an Independents Trophy and a newly
crowned BTCC Master is something that they will celebrate with
us."
To date we
have sold nearly £8,000 of tickets towards the
Great WSR raffle, which is a
tremendous success for the Forum and WSR.
Since the
implementation of the raffle we have thought of various ways to
supplement the Raffle and fortunately WSR have allowed us to
Auction components from the actual race cars that have had
slight accident damage. To bid for these components goto this
Forum.
The
first issue of totalMG will be published on 23 June 2004.
totalMG
is the magazine that MG fans the world over deserve and gives
today’s MG owner what they want – fun, informative articles with
stunning photography and lively writing. And in the first issue
every reader has the chance of winning a brand-new MG TF115, a
full suspension upgrade, plus other goodies in a range of
easy-to-enter competitions!
The first issue of totalMG
contains features on a wild supercharged ZR, wonderful 1960s MGC
GTS, XPower-tuned ZR 105, a madly modified MGF, everything you
need to know about buying a ZT, MG online, how to upgrade
suspension, Q&A, data on all new MGs, plus pages of classified
adverts and much, much more.
totalMG
doesn’t recognise boundaries – it caters for drivers of all
types of MG, including the classic MGB and Midget, through the
RV8 and MGF, up to today’s TF and Z saloons, and beyond. In all
cases it reinforces the fact that MGs are true sports cars that
are made to be driven – fast.
totalMG
is the world’s only newsstand magazine dedicated to MG that is
published monthly, 12 times a year. Printed on top-notch paper
with a gloss-varnished cover, it features superb photography,
lively and informative writing, and eye-catching design.
totalMG is
in a league of its own.
Ask for totalMG at your newsagent or go to www.totalmg.com.
Editor’s note: For more
information about totalMG please contact Philip Raby at
9publishing on 0845 4506964; email: phil@9publishing.co.uk. A
jpeg file of the front cover is attached with this press
release.
The
first issue of totalMG - the brand-new magazine
for today's MG owners – goes on sale at all good newsagents in
the UK on 23 June, and worldwide soon after.
totalMG reflects the excitement that is MG. It’s
the magazine that the MG world deserves and gives today’s MG
owner what they want – fun, informative articles with stunning
photography and lively writing.
You can subscribe to totalMG now at
www.totalmg.co.uk. If you're lucky enough to be one of the
first 500 subscribers you'll receive a very special,
limited-edition issue one with a unique cover. You'll also be
entered into a prize-draw with the chance of winning a brand-new
MG TF115!
X-Power forums are proud to announce that they have become a
sponsor of the WSR MG’s entered at the 2004 BTCC series, which
kicks off at Thruxton on the 11th April 2004.
The agreement means that the X-Power
forums URL will be carried on the rear bumper of the MG ZS
cars competing in the series throughout the 2004 season,
further entrenching XPF’s position as the leading MG
supporters and enthusiast’s website, which now has almost 3500
members. Further sponsorship announcements will be made
shortly.
XPOWERFORUMS.COM
ANNOUNCES SECOND SPONSORSHIP DEAL!
X-Power Forums are delighted to announce that they have
completed a sponsorship deal with highly rated BTCC
Independent driver Jason Hughes and his Kartworld entered MGZS.
Following the recent announcement that X-Power Forums are
sponsoring West Surrey Racing, this ensures that all MG
entries in the 2004 series, which commences at Thruxton on the
11th April, will display the URL of the leading MG supporters
and enthusiast’s website.
Following on from a
suggestion to add our Forum url on the WSR cars we have now
developed the idea further.
Paul Harrison
arranged a meeting with Jason Hughes and ran some ideas past
him. To our delight Jason was very receptive to us and said he
would add an url to the bumper. The size is dependant on the
budget we could raise. The idea was placed on the Forum with an
initial target of £1000 and too our surprise money was pledged
overnight. Since then the cheques have rolled in and it looks
like the idea will reach fruition very soon.
During the last week we have
uploaded the latest software for the Gallery
and Forum.
This task was undertaken by Rob Watton. I also took the opportunity to buy
additional software by Photopost call Review Software. This allows you to add
a picture of a product and some pertinent
details. Then others can say if they agree with your findings and where and how
much they bought the component from!
Please find the Review
Software
here. Dave Sims is also designing an icon to be placed at the top
of all site pages (fast link).
Because of an unprecedented expansion in Bandwidth I decided to
purchase a dedicated server in August. We have now successfully moved to
the server at a cost of US$328, consequently we have shortfall of revenue at the
moment.
The servers specification and cost (per month) is listed below:
Monthly Fee: $199.00
Setup Fee: $199.00
Cpanel: $30
2.4 GHz Pentium 4
Intel 533 FSB / 512 Cache
80 GB IDE Hard Drive
512 MB Ram
300 GB Data Transfer
8 IPs
Glenn Roberts (seamaster), following a generous Paypal donation suggested I
set up a monthly subscription service.
So here it is - the idea is to click the button
above, which
means you donate to XPower Forums £5pm.
Just a short message to explain our success and at the same time
the double edged sworrd as a result of its success. As momentum builds with an
average of 172,000 hits per day in June 2003, so have the costs gone up
accordingly.
Stats in June: 172,000 hits per day (peaks of 235,000 {during the
week}). Bandwidth of 49 Gigs of used. Below is the service we use from
www.venturesonline.com
Furthermore this month we were billed the following:
The Technical Support was to upgrade the server and the cost of
Off-Server Back-Up has taken me by surprise, which I think I need to curtail.
Currently we generate £140 of income per month and the outgoings'
are US$247.45, so as you can see the site is becoming a costly affair. If anyone
can donate using the Paypal system to offset charges I would be most grateful
until we can establish more sponsors!
If you click on the Donate ICON, you promise to pay £5 to XPower
Forums! The intention is never to make a profit only to recover costs!
A very long while ago I thought of getting a promotional Banner
made for the Forum. However, because of the lack of income the idea was shelved
shortly afterwards. Anyway as the Forum grew and I invited a new influx of
Moderators to the Forum one of whom was Tony Palmer who was full of enthusiasm.
He saw the thread and resurrected the idea. The seed was now sown, a thread was
started asking for donations and before we knew where we were the members had
contributed enough to get a banner produced. Meanwhile Findlay coordinated the
initial design which was refined by Dave Sims for reproduction.
The idea: J Flint
Idea resurrected by: Tony Palmer
Initial design: Findlay Colquhourn
Refined by Graphic Designer: David Sims
The idea is that the banner will be used for all BTCC events and
major shows to promote
XPower Forums.
A Special thanks to MG-Rover allowing us to use the MG Logo and
the following Forum members whom without the banner would still be an idea:
John Doubtfire - Glenn Roberts - Stuart Forbes - Debbie
O'Connor - Graham Robbins - Keith - Jerry Flint - Dave Morris (DCM) - Kevin Neal -
Tony Palmer - Guy - David Sims -
Paul Flint - Pam Duggan - Beverley Miles - Phil Rawlinson - Pete Wilkinson (Value £169) The
balance will be used to stock some XPower mugs!
