Sorry folks,
BMW will NOT be importing MG's to the US. I wish the car mag's would stop
torturing us with bogus claims. BMW would have to many legal issues with
previous MG dealers, existing repair shops, and current BMW dealers. As
much as I hate to say it's just is not going to happen.
Todd
'69 MGC
-----Original Message-----
From: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>
To: Tomsjetta@aol.com <Tomsjetta@aol.com>
Cc: James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>;
mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: MGF in US?
>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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