New MG's roll off the production line . . . .

The cars have not changed much, right down to the Union flag, which is still displayed proudly on their bodywork.
What a joke :/

They may as well engrave "Designed in Britain (albeit many moons ago), Made in China." into the bodywork.
 
To be honest, for the Chinese this will be an incredible deal. I hardly think anyone would call the Rover 75 a crap car, and I'm sure both that and the TF will sell in bucket loads over in China.

And its not just the car designs we're talking about. They got all the assembly equipment, the robots. Lets face it, they bought Rover for peanuts and now they've got a massive domestic market to sell to.

I can't see them selling back to this country though.
 
Bug One said:
I hardly think anyone would call the Rover 75 a crap car,


Like I've said before, it's an OK car but it has no place in this day and age, it's competition blows it out of the water.

You'd be mad to buy a brand new chinese Rover 75.

They wouldn't of gone broke in the first place if their line-up wasn't a joke.
 
Mr_White said:
You'd be mad to buy a brand new chinese Rover 75.

Depends what they cost though...

I'd say anyone who buys a large car from any Taiwani or Korean firm would be mad (depreciation is unbelievable... 80% in 3 years or something silly), but people do...
 
Mr_White said:
They wouldn't of gone broke in the first place if their line-up wasn't a joke.

the 75 was the only resonable car in their lineup. The 25/45 were very outdated, the CityRover was £3000 over priced. the MG F was never a good car.

Even though hats off to the pheonix group, bought the company for a few quid, made themselfs millions and still managed to push the blame to the krauts when it went belly up.
 
Sone said:
Even though hats off to the pheonix group, bought the company for a few quid, made themselfs millions and still managed to push the blame to the krauts when it went belly up.

Hardly blame them. When BMW had the sense to pull the plug they took the only profitable part of the business with them, the Mini. The only decent car left was the 75. Shame it was such an old farts car to be honest.
 
Third Opinion said:
Hardly blame them. When BMW had the sense to pull the plug they took the only profitable part of the business with them, the Mini. The only decent car left was the 75. Shame it was such an old farts car to be honest.

Yes but BMW had a plan to save rover, but as it ment heavy job losses the unions rejected. Who ever gave rover to pheonix aut to be shot. It needed real investment not a bucnh of idiots wasting BMW's £500mill slush fund
 
So would have rover just made city cars and the old sporty mg if BMW we're still running the show?

Wouldn't really want the 75 as competition for a 5 series would they?? :(
 
digitalwolf said:
So would have rover just made city cars and the old sporty mg if BMW we're still running the show?

Wouldn't really want the 75 as competition for a 5 series would they?? :(

Rover 75 was designed afaik under BMW control, size wize it sits between the 3 and the 5 series
 
Mr_White said:
Like I've said before, it's an OK car but it has no place in this day and age, it's competition blows it out of the water.

It's competition depends totaly on it's pricing, which is quite vague at the moment.

I'd be interested to see what they've done to the redeigned K series.
 
Bug One said:
To be honest, for the Chinese this will be an incredible deal. I hardly think anyone would call the Rover 75 a crap car, and I'm sure both that and the TF will sell in bucket loads over in China.

And its not just the car designs we're talking about. They got all the assembly equipment, the robots. Lets face it, they bought Rover for peanuts and now they've got a massive domestic market to sell to.

I can't see them selling back to this country though.

Exactly, they can now market it as a luxury British car to 1/4 of the world's population (ok, 90% of those will never be able to afford one but still a lot of people), and to them anything western is posh, even Rover.
 
It's quite amazing to think how many MG's and Rover's there still are at the Longbridge plant. A few mates went down there recently to look around after reading about people who visit abandoned places like it, and they said there were quite a lot of cars still sat there, some with the keys in the ignition.
 
Atari said:
It's quite amazing to think how many MG's and Rover's there still are at the Longbridge plant. A few mates went down there recently to look around after reading about people who visit abandoned places like it, and they said there were quite a lot of cars still sat there, some with the keys in the ignition.

I remember going to a Rover dealer around 2000 it would be and in the factory unit behind the dealership they had atleast 300, Rover 200's doing nothing at all and they could not shift them.

What happens to cars like these then? Is longbridge a secure site?
 
digitalwolf said:
I remember going to a Rover dealer around 2000 it would be and in the factory unit behind the dealership they had atleast 300, Rover 200's doing nothing at all and they could not shift them.

What happens to cars like these then? Is longbridge a secure site?

It's partially secure from what my friends told me. They were able to walk around most areas of the factory without any bother, but when they entered one of the parts areas (this one had rows upon rows of unused alloys), an alarm went off, and they saw two security guards and a van as they were running away.

There's pictures floating around of people who explore places like Longbridge, loads of cars, and loads of parts. In one area (think it was the paint shop IIRC), there were even computers still turned on.

There's also an underground bunker beneath Longbridge, might have been some sort of air raid shelter.
 
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