This hidden tunnel holds one of the biggest British motoring mysteries

This hidden tunnel contained one of the biggest motoring mysteries in British history.

Back in 2013, pictures first emerged online of a parking garage filled with dusty cars.

Among the cars were Rover 75s, MGs, and more.

For years, the location of the parking garage was a total mystery – but that’s all changed now.

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We all love a car mystery that gets us speculating.

Sometimes it’s down to the identity of the car, like this Ferrari roadster.

Other times, it’s a question of why a car is in a certain spot – remember the pink McLaren that spent years sitting outside a London hotel or the graffiti-covered Cybertruck found in LA?

Another such mystery is this case of an ominous tunnel filled with dusty cars.

Pictures of it first surfaced online back in 2013, but nobody knew where it was located.

That is, until now.

YouTube channel Tom/Drives took a closer look at the case.

He laid the groundwork with some wider context.

MG Rover was a British carmaker which operated between 2000 and 2005.

It was looking for a partner and courted a few Chinese companies.

However, nothing came of the deals and it shut in April 2005.

Thousands of cars were left in limbo and assets were sold off.

Fast forward to 2013, and images of the cars appeared online, usually through Russian websites.

One Russian website claimed the cars in question were being stored somewhere in China.

As is the case with the internet, speculation ran riot and all types of tales were spun in online forums and comment sections.

Things went quiet for a while, until a Chinese car enthusiast made a post in a Rover Montego Facebook group.

He was searching for parts for his Austin Maestro, when he came across a brand new Rover Montego.

The car was unregistered and stored in a customs holding area in Shanghai.

While it technically hadn’t been driven, it had been subjected to vandalism, with the grille having been removed.

After putting the original images through a metadata search tool, Tom made a breakthrough in one of the biggest motoring mysteries on the internet.

He deduced that they were taken in the same location as the pictures of the Rover Montego that were shared in the Facebook group.

Therefore, the cars were being stored ‘near or under’ the S20 Outer Ring Expressway in Shanghai.

There are a few theories that could come of this.

One would be that one of the potential Chinese partners to MG Rover had the cars sent over for evaluation.

The other could be that one of the companies bought the assets after MG Rover went bust, but had trouble getting the cars released from customs.

However, Tom pointed out a finer detail that threw a spanner in the works.

“All of these cars are left hand drive,” he noted.

“And with China driving on the right, it makes no sense that they were destined for China.

“Perhaps they were destined for Hong Kong instead.”

One crucial question still remains – are these cars still there?

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