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RE: MGF in America?

To: "Gordon Bird" <gobird@vbe.com>, "John A. Walker" <john@rmartin.net>,
Subject: RE: MGF in America?
From: "j r overcash" <jroverca@tiac.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:15:27 -0400
Certainly sounds good to me!  Of course BMW didn't have a hand in MG (??)
when the RV8 came out so don't know how that would pan out!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Bird [mailto:gobird@vbe.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 5:26 PM
> To: j r overcash; John A. Walker; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: MGF in America?
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> > There have been a number of reasons bated around, not the least of which
> > have to do with Federal emissions and safety stuff.  But the
> most popular
> > seems to be the lack of a dealer network!  Of course I don't buy it
> because
> > if there was really a desire to sell the car here dealers could be lined
> up.
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> Perhaps the problem is with the current dealers who used to have the MG
> franchise back in '80.  Yep, many of them are still around.  If
> they didn't
> offer the franchise to those, they may be in for some lawsuits,
> on the other
> hand if they do offer the franchise to those old dealers, what are the
> current BMW dealers going to say?  I'll sue.  Could be a no win situation,
> and combine that with the safety/emissions issue and it just may not be
> financially feasible.
>
> My $.02
>
> Gordie Bird
> '62 MGA
> '86 4kcsq
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