[ROVERNET - UK] BBC E-mail: Rover cars to be made in China

[Stephen Beer]

No, you're not being too cynical.

...but selling the rights to build Rover 75s and 45s to the Chinese 
before a deal is struck just seems like more of the corporate raiding 
Towers and the other 3 venture crapitalists have been up to. They sold 
the factory -- and just about everything else of value before this.

How dare he (Towers) pat himself on the back for exceeding the 18 
months predicted for Rover's failure.
I'm sorry. This is big corporate at it's worst.

The Chinese have no business building, associating with or even looking 
at Rovers.

Hopefully the Rover and MG names can be bought by a British individual 
with a vision (John Bloor are you there?).

My TC remains my favorite car.
Stephen Beer


On Apr 21, 2005, at 12:25 AM, Peter Huttemeier wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:11:57 +0000, you wrote:
>
>> Peter Miller saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you
>> should see it.
>
> Am I being too cynical to suggest SAIC deliberately withdrew from any
> Rover rescue deal to allow Rover to collapse and then snap up what
> they could cheaply, and without having to bother with 6,000
> redundancies?
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter H
>
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