I just read in the news that Ford is buying the Land-Rover side of the
business.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_680000/680603.stm
Russ Maddock
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc James Small <msmall(at)roanoke.infi.net>
To: Steve Laifman <Laifman(at)flash.net>
Cc: <tigers(at)autox.team.net>; <alpines(at)autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Rover, Rover
> At 10:51 AM 3/16/2000 +0000, Steve Laifman wrote:
> >BMW just announced it was selling their entire acquisition of Rover.
>
> Wrong. BMW has indicated they have PAID an English firm to take the Rover
> car line off their hands. BMW will retain the much larger, and strongly
> profitable, Land Rover division. No details, or damned few, as of yet.
>
> See http://www.msnbc.com/news/382429.asp for details.
>
> My girl-friend is a branch accountant at a Rover dealership in the UK, and
> they didn't even tell the hired help today. She heard about it on the
> radio on the way home.
>
> I guess Land Rover gets to keep the nifty Viking ship with the red sails
> (but, seemingly, damned few "sales"!). As the Viking ship badge hasn't
> been used on Land Rovers for at least forty years, this is a trifle
> superfluous, but I'd hate to see that logo die -- I learned to drive in a
> 2000TC, in the Bay area, back in the summer of love, "when it was a joy to
> be alive and to be young was very heaven".
>
> Marc
>
> msmall(at)roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
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