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1. British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Benjamin Ruset <bruset@home.com>; Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 10:49:45 -0500; Is Sterling the domestic version of Rover? What's the general thought of Sterlings? Are they on the same level of quality / luxury you might expect from BMW or Mercedes?? BEN RUSET - bruset@home.com; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00543.html (7,838 bytes)
2. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: miker15@juno.com; Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 11:23:35 EST; On Mon, 09 Mar 1998 10:49:45 -0500 Benjamin Ruset <bruset@home.com> The Sterling is the EXPORT version of a Rover - basically its a Honda put together as badly as can be imagined - whilst quite luxur; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00544.html (8,235 bytes)
3. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: dmeadow@juno.com; Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:39:39 -0600; Actually, I understand that the later cars were quite good, once they got the problems sorted out. The earlier cars had notoriously bad gearboxes that were later replaced by a different manufacturer.; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00550.html (8,966 bytes)
4. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: MGSMGBGT <MGSMGBGT@aol.com>; Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 14:05:31 EST; I do not know that I can reply generally, but among my friends and fellow LBC owners Sterlings are held in high regard. My '88 825sl is fast, (about 8 seconds from 0 to 60, top end @ 134 MPH) comfort; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00555.html (9,771 bytes)
5. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>; Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 14:56:18 +0000; I thought Sterling was a joint effort between Honda and Rolls-Royce. Is RR part of the Rover group, or am I just horribly misremembering? Scott; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00556.html (8,310 bytes)
6. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: miker15@juno.com; Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 15:41:41 EST; Interesting - I never heard about the ones that were ok - but then i suppose one is less likely to - oh - and add TR7 to the list of "test" vehicles for crappy gearboxes (I had three in one in 76 whe; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00560.html (9,000 bytes)
7. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: dmeadow@juno.com; Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:26:00 -0600; The latter. Honda owned a percentage of the Rover group (25 or 30 per cent, if I recall correctly). They were a prime candidate to purchase Rover because of this, but eventually bowed out in favor of; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00567.html (9,359 bytes)
8. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Phil Raby <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 98 08:48:25 -0000; It was for a short period. Sadly that short period conincided with poor build quality; one of the reasons Sterling was not a success in the US. Some of these were also badged as Hondas; they were dev; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00603.html (9,029 bytes)
9. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Phil Raby <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 98 08:48:26 -0000; Roll Royce is owned by Vickers, nothing to do with Rover. It's up for sale if you're interested ;-) Philip Raby Editor, MG World PO Box 163, Bicester OX6 3YS, UK Tel: 01869 340061 Fax: 01869 340063 M; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00604.html (8,905 bytes)
10. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Phil Raby <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 98 08:48:31 -0000; Hondo went off in a huff cos they weren't happy about BMW coming = along behind their backs. The new Silver Seraph uses a modified 7 series engine. It looks a = wonderful car if you've got =A3150.000; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00605.html (10,451 bytes)
11. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Phil Raby <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 98 08:48:29 -0000; After 1978, the TR7 used the Rover SD1 gearbox which was excellent. That's the only one to go for (apologies to John the list's resident TR7 owner) Never heard of problems over here, must be your cli; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00606.html (9,180 bytes)
12. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Hert <hert@wxs.nl>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:38:38 +0100; I think Proton from Malaysia is the current owner after several others. Peter 74B; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00610.html (8,205 bytes)
13. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:51:00 -0500; Actually Kia in Korea. The Elan from a few years back is about to make a reappearance in the US as a Kia. (R&T April 98) Larry Macy 78 Midget; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00619.html (8,733 bytes)
14. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>; Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:39:07 +0000; Would that be the April FIRST issue, by any chance? :) Scott; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00662.html (8,731 bytes)
15. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Phil Raby <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk>; Date: Wed, 11 Mar 98 11:23:15 -0000; It's true that Kia has the rights to build the Elan, but I'm fairly sure that they don't own Lotus. Philip Raby Editor, MG World PO Box 163, Bicester OX6 3YS, UK Tel: 01869 340061 Fax: 01869 340063; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00689.html (8,265 bytes)
16. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Hert <hert@wxs.nl>; Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:18:55 +0100; Thank you, ownership of Lotus changes so fast it's hard to keep up. Kia may be able to produce the car at low cost and sell it at an interesting price, unlike Lotus could. It's a sharp looking car. I; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00691.html (8,828 bytes)
17. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Teacher122 <Teacher122@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:08:23 EST; << It's true that Kia has the rights to build the Elan, but I'm fairly sure that they don't own Lotus. Philip Raby Editor, MG World PO Box 163, Bicester OX6 3YS, UK Tel: 01869 340061 Fax: 01869 34006; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00729.html (8,213 bytes)
18. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: miker15@juno.com; Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:18:42 EST; They are....as are most of the Korean "heavy industry" conglomerates (Halla, Keoyang, ....and waiting in the wings.....Hyundai) Damn their eyes!! - Korean bankruptcies have cost me very dearly this y; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00752.html (8,544 bytes)
19. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>; Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:20:44 -0500; Philip, According to R&T Proton owns Lotus and sold the rights to Kia to build and sell the Elan, w/o the original Isuzu engine and tranny. They probably cannot use the Elan name however. So I suppo; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00794.html (8,370 bytes)
20. Re: British Cars in the USA Question (score: 1): Author: Paul Hird <paulhird@club29.demon.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:29:57 +0000; I thought the Malaysian company Proton bought Lotus last year! Paul Hird Paul Hird 1975 MGB Roadster Berkshire, England paulhird@club29.demon.co.uk http://www.club29.demon.co.uk; /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00798.html (8,466 bytes)

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