MG Rover going bust (again)

Following with interest (when I can get on pooter), I see Nigels point about work rahter than dole money, also Peter Fenwicks.

It is certainly true it's a british trait to rubbish our own and praise competitors, the build quality hasn't always been good but Rover have often been at the cutting edge, the P6 and the SD1 were good cars. My fahter in law and brother in law had 800 series, if you got a good one it was great, many weren't, similar prob to Stag years ago?

On the TV earlier tonight they asked a car supermarket and customers what they though of Rovers, customers quoted reliability probs, rover no longer main stream producer, old fashioned etc etc. Car supermarket said no reliability probs with rovers, style a bit dated but main prob customers thought they were second class cars,  like Skoda a few years back. It would be a shame to lose Rover forever but I'm not sold on the chinese deal.

Horsetan wrote: Some were sold on the UK market, not just Japan. It takes a certain mentality (i.e. "classic car = "investment" - bwahahahahaha) to go all the way to Japan to bring back a car which was shipped out there in the first place.....

True, some were sold in the UK, but read any of the "Drive the ads" type references to them recently and you'll find that the cars are re-imports, likewise the auction sale reports.  Probably half of the RV8's currently for sale in the UK are Jap imports.

Re. the certain mentality, there are a 100,000 Jap import Nissan Micras here too and few Mercedes, BMW's, etc. making there way back!

Doive wrote: the only profitable part of Ford is now Land Rover -

Think you will find the most profitable Ford company after the Finance arm is Volvo, only part of PAG to be making money because Ford has not tried to control them

THE END OF THE LINE

Well I'll never.  I was wrong - they did the right thing to stop the taxpayer pouring more money down the drain...

...they've let them go bust.

At last, Tony makes the right decision.

Sorry to those that don't agree with me, but I'm sick of keeping up failed businesses with taxpayers money and in my opinion the right thing has happened.

I'm sad for Rover, and I'm sad for the employees, but their plight and that of supporting a failed business are entirely different things.

is this breaking news?  i havent seen the news since 6 o clock, just checked on the bbc news site, theyve got a rather desperate plea from mgr executive Peter Beale:

We need just £100m to see us through the next couple of weeks

sounds like the plight of a junkie, "im good for it, go on, just one more hit, ill pay you back double next week"

You are all wrong about the training being bad business.......I think.

It has always been that way with apprenticeships.

The taxpayer trained me via the airforce, and government has always part funded training.

you know, thats exactly what i said when it came on the telly

"didnt he used to be a character in eastenders?" lol

Nigel wrote: Maybe we could raffle horsey ?

nah, thats the booby prize  *groan*