No doubt Shanghai Automotive will want huge susidies to re-open Longbridge.
I can't see them getting them to produce obsolete Honda models with a major design fault (HGF) that nobody wants to buy.
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Even if they do start production, where are all the dealers to sell them?
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Isn't this something to do with the Great Britain sportscar project ? I heard the Chinese were after £100m in capital before they would get involved.
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They shouldn't get a penny, doomed for failure IMHO. Look at DeLorean, cost the taxpayer a fortune.
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They shouldn't get a penny, doomed for failure IMHO. Look at DeLorean, cost the taxpayer a fortune.
and at least the DeLorean project was a new design with some USPs, not a warmed-up fossil
Name-change time: NoWheels + Almera = NowWheels
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But no one wanted it. Basic rule of business is to provide a product or service that people want to buy.
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But no one wanted it. Basic rule of business is to provide a product or service that people want to buy.
Eaxctly. My point was that DeLorean failed despite having a more desirable product than the leftovers of MG. This one doesn't even look as promising as the DeLorean dream :(
Name-change time: NoWheels + Almera = NowWheels
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At last!!!
Those optional extras we`ve all been waiting for.....
Chopstick holders
Pop out hot plate and a plug in electric wok.
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But no one wanted it. Basic rule of business is to provide a product or service that people want to buy.
Thats not really true, the build quality was dreadful which added to costs and the worst winter in the USA for many years had stopped car sales, all car sales not just DeLorean.
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and at least the DeLorean project was a new design with some USPs, not a warmed-up fossil
Actually NW it was an ornate, overweight, undeveloped piece of flashy carp... Lotus were supposed to have helped with the suspension but actually seemed to get more involved in the financial jiggery-pokery when it came to it... Colin Chapman had a corner-cutting side.
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Actually NW it was an ornate, overweight, undeveloped piece of flashy carp... Lotus were supposed to have helped with the suspension but actually seemed to get more involved in the financial jiggery-pokery when it came to it... Colin Chapman had a corner-cutting side.
Lud, I didn't say that the DeLorean was a good car, just that it had some USPs. It looked futuristic and attracted interest, whereas I don't see how the reborn can have much appeal beyond the Union Jack stickers they'll put on it.
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That was an offer from some pie in the sky asset stripper to build the obsolete Smart coupe .
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Even if they do start production, where are all the dealers to sell them?
And who'll want to buy antiquated designs, if that's what they are. Badge engineering surely does not work any more, does it?
My local dealership was raized to the ground recently and quess what? Yes they're building yet more dwellings on the site. Soon the S.E of England will comprise housing only, with more and more people demanding ever diminishing supplies of gas and water etc.
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I can't see them getting them to produce obsolete Honda models with a major design fault (HGF) that nobody wants to buy.
The article refers only to the MGF. The only Honda based model was the 45 / ZS, and the last shells were scrapped. I suspect Honda has a say in whether or not they could produce 45's and let's face it, anyone without Longbridge tunnel vision can see that the 45 didn't cut it, so that's unlikely.
So, what will they produce?
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More interesting photos on the www.autin-rover.co.uk site.
Go to 'In Production' under 'Feature Galleries'.
Then 'Longbridge - after Nanjing'
Maybe some clever person can set up a link.
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>>Maybe some clever person can set up a link
Try :- www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?longbridgef.htm
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I think this Longbridge 'rescue' plan looks less impressive than any of the previous ones - Nationalisation, sale to British Aerospace, Honda link-up, purchase by BMW or even the sale by BMW!
The MG Rover models will possibly be able to be produced for the less sophisticated Chinese market for years, with occasional facelifts, and sold elsewhere as bargain basement imports. After all, the original VW Passat (Santana) is still made in China.
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I would have that red ZT V8, rusty brake discs or not.
I wonder why they don't break these part finished cars for spares, must be a value in doing that.
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