20-04-2005 18:25									#31
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Like a phoenix from the flames!

Or more like an old dog left living too long?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4464651.stm

It lives! maybe........

	20-04-2005 18:31									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Now, now Oerdin, you didn't pinch that picture off me at Counterglow did you? *tut* Well I got it off Dauphin at CGN anyway

I sure as hell did. All in the spirit of internet sharing of course.

	20-04-2005 18:43									#33
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Rover is like some sort of strange undead beast. Every time it dies it gets up and starts walking around again but each time it things get a little dodgier and the rotten smell gets a little stronger.

The latest speculation is that the Chinese do like the idea of owning a European brand or two and they would like to get their hands on MG/Rover's dealer network but they don't want the billions in pension liability. The solution is to buy the assets (brand names, cars, and dealerships) during the recievership then they wouldn't owe the pensioners a dime and they wouldn't have to accept the current union contracts.

It sucks that the pensioners would be out but they're out anyway and maybe a few jobs could still be saved.

	21-04-2005 10:05									#34
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The Rover 75 and the Rover 25 are to be built in China and sold under the Rover brand name. No word yet about the fate of MG nor of the older Rover 45. Supposedly the Chinese are approaching several suppliers who worked with Rover into setting up production lines in China for the Rover cars line.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4464651.stm

Last edited by Oerdin on 21-04-2005 at 10:58

	21-04-2005 16:04									#35
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara MG/Rover didn't die. It was killed.

It was killed by crap management, now they are dead in the water...I wouldn't buy one of the things and the only people who would do it out of some twisted sense of national pride. It is a shame that their plants can't be bought by another company for the manufacture of cars...

	21-04-2005 19:24									#36
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The MG TF was a great car which got wonderful reviews and even the River 75 was pretty nice though over priced and now 6-7 years old. If I were to move to Europe I wouldn't mind picking up a second had 2004-2005 MG TF.

	22-04-2005 03:39									#37
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I've got a colleague who has an MG...won't start in the wet which is utterly ridiculous for a British car

	26-04-2005 21:22									#38
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4485347.stm

Pictures of a rally held last weekend at Longbridge by MG & Rover enthusists who were urging the British government to save the former national automaker.

MG especially seems to have a strong following so there is hope someone will want to own that brand though Rover is dead as can be.