No new Mid-Sized Rover next year !

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Tue 13 Jan 2004 08:16
No new Mid-Sized Rover next year ! - arnold2
www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?salesf.htm

"So, what can we expect from 2004; Rover's centenary year? Well, one thing is for sure, it is not going to bring the RD/X60.
According to my sources, there was absolutely no activity on that front at Longbridge - even the robots had yet to be ordered (that is, by late December 2003), and following the abandonment of the idea of using some of the Rover 75's facility (subframe "stuff-ups", for example), it would seem that a hefty investment remains to be made."

"Accepted wisdom is that MGR now need to tie-up with its as-yet unnamed Chinese partner (Kevin Howe hinted this would be imminent) before the RD/X60 takes its next step towards production. Given a favourable following wind, we could yet see RD/X60 by the end of 2005..."

oh dear .....

:-((

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Tue 13 Jan 2004 08:40
No new Mid-Sized Rover next year ! - Paul Robinson
Reading the BA magazine on a recent flight, there was an item about 'buzz words'. The writer included a comment that in a US automotive engineer had said there are only two buzz words in his industry at the moment - China and India!

Perhaps Rover will surprise us all and are building a business that can survive in the long term.
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