smurfhead said:That is their head office. The cars are actually made a couple of miles from Mallory Park on the stretch of road there between Mallory Park and Market Bosworth.
Yea, i meant their headoffice
smurfhead said:That is their head office. The cars are actually made a couple of miles from Mallory Park on the stretch of road there between Mallory Park and Market Bosworth.
pug 206cc aint they the cars that cut out for no reason in fast lane of Mway? was on watch dog?Magical Trevor said:My mother has a 2 year old Rover 25, shes going trading it in this morning for a new Peugeot 206cc her Rover, which was 13.5k is now worth 3.5k thats some hell of depreciation
alexb said:I think they've done quite good things (looks-wise anyway) with the recently facelifted MG models, but the masses of people who've just bought them will be cursing!!
With regard to British car makers! Ha! I don't think so:
Jaguar is owned by Ford.
TVR is over by a Russian.
Aston Martin? Who knows!
Rolls Royce? Are they even British?
cinqmeister said:Haven't Ford got Aston? Seem to remember so, if not there's some links - the indicator stalks are the same as Mondeos.
Thought as much.James M said:Ford have owned Jag/Aston for ages, the XK8/DB7 were basically the same car, and had ford parts bin bits.
poggy said:The trouble is that there has been under investment in Rover for a long time and the unions also crippled manufacturing in the UK at a time when other car companies in Europe were expanding and improving quality. This was then made worse when the conservatives didn't encourage manufacturing or offer incentives. We are basically getting the results of 20 years of problems.
It's a real shame, especially for the 6,000 employee's and probably the same again who supply Rover with components. If you look back we used to be a huge manufacturing country, planes, cars, industrial equipment etc. Now a lot of design is done by UK companies/people, but they are manufactured elsewhere and that is also where the profit centres are.
I could moan for ages about the lack of manufacturing in the UK. This also means that people are unlikely to be trained in manufacturing processes, so it will leave a big gap educationally.
I think Richard Branson should buy them, he could turn it around.
Steve C said:As I said, the cars are rubbish. The point is that 6000 people will be out of work and the last large scale British car maker is going down the plug.
Steve C said:It's been confirmed. They are going into administration. The thing is, it's not inconceivable that this could happen to Fiat.
Alex said:Nah the itallian government will bail them out. And FIAT cars are improving much more rapidly than rover cars were.
Alex said:Nah the itallian government will bail them out. And FIAT cars are improving much more rapidly than rover cars were.