At 10:51 AM 3/16/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>Wow,
>
>BMW just announced it was selling their entire acquisition of Rover. Seems the
>Pound is so strong that the car is too pricey for Euro countries.
>
>The workers and country frothed at the mouth when Rover was sold to a
German firm,
>and now they are frothing because it is selling it to an English firm.
>
>The new company will have a "new " name, the MG Car Company. Somehow that
sounds
>familiar. Can a gas turbine MG-TC be far behind?
>
>Can VW be ready to sell Rolls Royce? (a dumb purchase as they must use BMW
>engines, and don't own the name). Perhaps they will call the new company
Rootes,
>and make a new model Bentley called the Sunbeam Tiger? Might make up for W. O.
>Bentley's pique when the Sunbeam Super Sport beat his cars at Le Mans in 1925.
>He's still mad. They can re-name the Rolls-Royce, when the name reverts to
BMW, a
>Humber Super Snipe. {9->
>--
>Steve Laifman < Find out what is most >
>
The newspaper today said that Ford bought Rover.
James Barrett Tiger II 351C and others
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