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Re: MGF in US?

To: Tomsjetta@aol.com
Subject: Re: MGF in US?
From: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:18:53 -0600 (MDT)
Good enough for me.

James Nazarian
'71 B roadster
'74 BGT bastardization with big aluminum heart :)
'63 Buick 215 cubic inch 'heart'

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 Tomsjetta@aol.com wrote:

>  This matter was discussed in the June/July issue of MG World. James, or 
> other listers may not have access to this magazine, so I'll put an end tothis 
> rumor before it gets too far out of hand:
> 
> The following are quotes from Chris Lee, product development director-MG & 
> Mini:
> 
> 'Chris Lee offers little hope to North American MG enthusiasts of seeing a 
> version of the 'F. "We have looked at it in the past," Lee confirms, "but it 
> would be a very expensive piece of work, and I have to say that the decisions 
> taken so far have been against it. However, if you open up the time horizons, 
> and talk about MG in a more strategic basis, then the relaunch of MG in the 
> USA is absolutely dead-centre. In fact, it is now almost impossible to 
> conceive of an MG product strategy that doesn't include the US market. The 
> MGF was the result of very clever thinking and innovative investment and cost 
> arrangements, and to have made the car US-legal would have added a lot more 
> expense to the programme; probably to the point where it might not have 
> gotten the go-ahead. But, from now on, in the strategic framework, sports 
> cars and the US market have to go together."
> 
> So James, we may not get the MGF, but it looks certain that some kind of MG 
> will eventually make it to our shore.
> 
> Tom
> 78 Midget
> 


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