Ah well, that is where you could well be wrong. The only reason MG Rover
never exported to North America was they simply hadn't got the funding to
expand production and produce what would be required for anything other than
a token dealer network, which wouldn't be practical for the volumes MG Rover
aimed itself at. Such a token dealer network could well be a practicable
proposition for a manufacturer the size of TVR. Not a potential merger, of
course, since MG Rover has gone bust, but TVR could well be one of the
half-dozen or so bidders for the MG name and TF production facilities. The
TF (or MGF) was made with low-volume tooling because of its low start-up
cost. To ramp up production would required re-tooling, which for a model
which is pretty-well time expired by modern standards make no sense. I know
the MGB went on for 18 years and could have gone on longer, but the MGF/TF
is no MGB. Several names have been in the public domain for several weeks,
the time for bids closed a couple of weeks ago, and TVR only popping up now
makes me think it is just journalistic kite-flying. We shall see, and any
future MG being made at Longbridge would at least still have some of the
genes.
PaulH.
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> Repeat after me... "They... will... not... sell... MG TFs... in... the...
> US".
>
> If MG Rover couldn't swing it, TVR certainly isn't...
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