Longbridge 'to make cars again'

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No doubt will please Andy and his rover perversion!

Nanjing Auto, the Chinese firm which bought MG Rover, has signed a "landmark agreement" which will allow production to restart at Longbridge.
The Chinese group has signed a 33-year lease on the Longbridge site in Birmingham with its owner, property developer St Modwen Properties.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4739616.stm

 

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We might be in luck...

The BBC's correspondent warned that it was important to be realistic about the scale of the announcement.

The lease included a 6-month break clause allowing Nanjing to get out of the deal if it decided it could not make it work, Russell Hayes said.

 

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Only + is we won't have British managers this time, we will have super efficient yet incredibly small Chinese people, perhaps they should stop production and open a midget racing circuit?

Seriously... They need new cars to make, simply re making the TF in 2007 won't do them any favors.

 

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IMHO, if they made a cheaper version of that MG X Power SV thingy, say 25k that would sell and reintroduce the brand.

 

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I'll sign you all up for rock breaking duty in a min

 

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Whats so bad about a rehashed car which handles better and goes better than the original ones did?
Its proven, tried and tested over time.

Better than some overpriced, overcomplex pile of poo that has to go to a dealer to get the headlight bulb changed.

Modern cars - you can keep em.

Thats all fine and well if your buying second hand, but its going into your fav electrical store and selecting VHS over a DVD Recorder. (If the price was the same)!

 

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Rowan Atkinson in particular said the paint is falling off his. Pretty poor really....

Shocked he hasn't put his into a tree yet

I think the X Power is a cracking looking car, if they could do several lower power versions i think it would sell well.

 

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Must Admit that Mk2 ZS 180 looks fantastic, nice colour as well

 

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The TF still remained one of MGR's best selling cars. It's certainly one of the best looking roadsters on the market, puts the new MX-5 to shame even though the TF's design is far older. There are a lot of very good looking concepts (75 coupe and TF-GT) which would seriously update MGR's range and image.

How does it put the MX-5 to shame?

 

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'...And welcome to the bi-monthly slate Rover thread...'

TBH its very mixed views, fact is they need to develop a new car at some point, the chinese know this its just a question of when and if the company can last till a new car is sorted.

 

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Sometimes I despair. Regardless what you think of the product, these are British people's jobs on the line

Along those lines they need to bring fresh people in, non of this union tanted 50 year old BS, that was half the original problem.