Sunday Times reports that the Kimber consortium (formed to buy MG Rover but
lost out to Nanjing) propose to manufacture the (failed) Smart roadster
under the AC name. "Midget" is used in the article like that i.e. in quotes
but capitalised. Didn't MG Rover get that? And hence Nanjing? Or did BMW
keep it?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2330126.html
Elsewhere Jay Leno (portrayed as something of a car buff) writes Clarkson's
column. He writes that in his early years in Massachusetts: "You'd see an
occasional MG, maybe a few oddball English sports cars but for the most part
that was it." So doesn't he know MG then was English? Or maybe he thinks
it wasn't oddball. Mind you, elsewhere he says "Ferrari or a Lamborghini
were cars you'd see only in magazines. But you could come close to the
performance with the Camaro or the Mustang." Er, maybe in a long enough
straight line.
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