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   What Do You All Think of the Crisis at MG Rover, the British Car Manufactur , I Just Hope it Survives as I Like MG'S.

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PROGMAN Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: February 03 2004 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 2664	Topic: MG ROVER Posted: April 12 2005 at 04:24
	What Do You All Think of the Crisis at MG Rover, the British Car Manufactur , I Just Hope it Survives as I Like MG'S.
	CYMRU AM BYTH

Sean Trane Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20436	Posted: April 12 2005 at 05:41
	I am getting rid of my Rover soon as I buy a new one (so this is not related) but this has been a long way coming. When Honda got rid of rover to BMW and those got rid of it quick, one could smell something fishy. Rover garages have closing left , right and center in Brussels for the last three years (dwindling sales) and my car was not exactly problem-free. I have a Rover 216 and had to replace the head gasket at 160 000 Km and the spark plugs are coming loose regularly...... Not acceptable. Outside of those considerations, this is a real catastrophe as thousands of worker will lose their job.
	let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword

Jim Garten Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693	Posted: April 12 2005 at 07:24
	The Phoenix consortium who bought MG/Rover a few years back for £10.00 have done their best for a few years, but now they've had to throw their hands up & back off. This is an absolute tragedy, not only because of the loss of another British marque, but the potential loss of at least 6,000 jobs at Longbridge in the car plant itself, plus approximately 15,000 other jobs in associated ancilliary industries in the Britsh west midlands (an area not known for its surpluss of job opportunities). One can only hope that President B-liar pulls out all the stops to try to save the plant (after all, Blair is facing an election in a few weeks...)
	Jon Lord 1941 - 2012

Blacksword Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130	Posted: April 12 2005 at 07:59
	It is a tragedy, especially for those who may lose their jobs. It can not have escaped the attention of anyone in the UK, that for the last 25 years or so, manufacturing industry has been shutting down. In its place, service industries are booming. Pen pushers dominate and the tradtional British engineer with years of experience finds himself on the scrap heap in his 40s if not before. We cant be good at everything, but if you look at the structured and brutal way this, once great, engineering nation has been shut down and sold off, one has to conclude that the change in economic culture has been deliberately orchestrated. Within 20 years the UK will be nothing but a business park, dotted with Travel Inns and KFC drive thrus.
	Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!