Hmmmm....... how do you define a British car? Is a new Jaguar British just
because it is built in Britain, even though it is owned by a (predominantly)
American company? If Mazda opened a factory in Britain and started turning
out Miatas, would they be British? If the Morgan family sold their business
to me, and I moved production to Canada, would the cars I built be British?
This whole economic globalization thing really does blur our concepts.
Doug Ingram
Victoria BC
1958 Frogeye (definitely a British car)
AN5L/636
>When is a car built in South Carolina and owned by a German company
>considered British? Do we let them join our club? Seriously do we?
>
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>Richard Bergstrom, President
>Central Virginia British Car Club
>Richmond VA
>We welcome all British Cars in the Central Virginia Area
>E-mail me for details!
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Christman <dpc@ai.mit.edu>
>To: spritenut@Exit109.com <spritenut@Exit109.com>
>Cc: trunkie@hotmail.com <trunkie@hotmail.com>;
>spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 5:42 PM
>Subject: Re: MGF's
>
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>>the rumor I heard was that BMW (current owner of MG parent Rover)
>>does not want competition with the Z3. Probably want to avoid
>>federalization costs too.
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