> I heard an interesting lecture on the subject of the death of MG and
>the speaker claimed that the loss of money on every car was a hoax to close
>Abingdon and promote the TR7 and 8 as The new British Sports Car.
Lord help us if that was the case, no wonder we ended up selling all our car
companies....
>Although Abingdon was still builing by hand the MGB, the
>factory constantly won the award in the British Auto industry for
efficiency >and lack of down time for strikes etc.
At this period in time though this wouldn't have been too difficult as this
was the time of major union action in all British industries, and
particularly British Leyland.
>There seems to be no problem to sell Rovers over here if they are Land Rovers.
>If a car is a success, can't production be increased?
As I understand it, they do struggle to make the break-even on Land ROvers
sold in the States due to the discount required to be competitive in the US
market. TO give you an idea, the Land Rover Discovery is sold in the US at
pretty much the same price as in the US (and would have had to be exported,
which can't be cheap). But coming back the other way, a 14,000 dollar probe
sells here for close on 30,000.
>From what is being said the only way Rover want to start shipping cars is on
a large scale basis (and don't forget Rover's Range competes with BMW pretty
much all the way up...)
>As you can see this is a sore subject with me and I can't remain objective!
Damm
>it those Idiots, send us the MGF, NOW!!
NO :-)
Its ours, all ours, if we have to wait seven months for one (after ordering
it), then you can wait longer ;-P
Then again, I'd probably think about lowering it, making it lighter,
improving the suspension, oh hold on Lotus already did it with the Elise,
and they have a 10 !!! month waiting list !!!
Andrew
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