Comments on: British police to investigate MG Rover demise – update

By: Wheelnut®™

Wheelnut®™ — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:05:11 +0000

The tempest looks like a 1960 Austin Healey Spirte or a 1954-58 Corvette x’ed with a BMW Z4 with MR-2 Headlights…. Yet somehow it works

By: daviel

daviel — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:53:02 +0000

This story was 4 decades in the making

MG rover was an embarrassing and festering sore in the side of the British and had been for decades in various incarnations as Austin, BMC, Rover etc.

Everything bad about the British had contributed to its demise, poor quality, militant unions, poor decision making influenced by outdated attitudes and government involvement. The list goes on.

the entity It had already failed, been bankrupted and been nationalised at least once, sold to BMW and even after BMW could not get it to make money!!

BMW gave up and sold the whole company to capital investors for £10 !!!!!

thats about 23 Australian dollars folks for a car company…

Brown knew the cancerous history, realised that if BMW couldn’t turn it around how could govt intervention (2nd time around), saw that only the bad bits of the company were still around (BMW retained Mini, Ford bought Land rover) saw the dodgy owners leeching money and did the only humane thing…

He took the whimpering mangy dog out behind the shed and put a bullet between its eyes.

RIP Leyland/Austin/BMC/Rover you are missed but better off dead.

By: Carz

Carz — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:15:58 +0000

Good looking Tempest!

By: Mumble Duck

Mumble Duck — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:49:23 +0000

MisterTwo, I know that it has been owned by GM since 1925. But Vauxhall was based in England before 1900, like Holden was in Australia. And Vauxhall started making cars from 1903. So, 22 years before they it was purchased by GM. So it would still be classified English at heart. The same with Holden for that case. Not like Ford etc. Because they started off in the USA. That’s the difference.

By: Bob Hume @ drivewire.eu

Bob Hume @ drivewire.eu — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:46:02 +0000

The Tempest looks fantastic doesn’t it? Thanks for the acknowledgement Matt – I’ll try to keep all the CarAdvice faithful up to date on this and other stories as soon as they break.
Bob

By: Elitist

Elitist — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:17 +0000

English sold themselves for capitalist greed decades ago….no wonder they now have no pride.

By: FrugalOne

FrugalOne — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:34:08 +0000

I believe [not 100% sure] that like Mini the Tempest is the property of BMW.

Would NOT have saved the company it was losing a insane amount of money [BMW could not turn it around, says it all] like GBP million every couple of days [tbc.]

Perhaps they dont want to steal sales from the BMW and Mini soft tops already being sold and selling well?

Maybe something to be sold in the future, when the good high flyng times return!

Cheers,

F-0

By: Sam, the original

Sam, the original — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:06:58 +0000

This is a bit confusing. That car on the other hand looks AWESOME……

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:54:44 +0000

Crouchy, it’s an imformation and reviews website. If words that someody else has written are exactly what need to said then why shouldn’t they? It’s not as if we don’t get plenty of real journalism from the CA writers themselves.

By: crouchy

crouchy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:42:03 +0000

Anyone else think that the caradvice team is having a copy/paste competition at the moment???