Archive for July, 2008
News : 31 July 2008
JLR and FGA announce financing partnership: more to come? Clive Goldthorp Jaguar XF is JLR’s halo product right now – will it eventually sire a big RWD Alfa Romeo? THE exciting prospect of the Alfa-Jaguar tie-up that AROnline predicted in December 2007 has taken a step towards realisation following the formal announcement of Jaguar/Fiat tie-up [...]
July 31, 2008
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Blogs : July 2008
30 July Out with the old, in with the new By KEITH ADAMS REGULAR readers will probably recall my tale of being frog-marched (in a gentlemanly manner) out of Media House at the beginning of the month, following the handing in of my notice to the powers-that-be. Well, as it’s now my last day in [...]
July 28, 2008
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News : 27 July 2008
News digest Compiled by Clive Goldthorp 1) SAIC Motor/MG and Roewe Longbridge MGs off to flying start Jon Griffin, Business Editor, Birmingham Mail, 18th July, 2008 THE relaunch of Longbridge after three years at a standstill has sparked a £5 million sales surge, with half of the MG output for 2008 already sold. As Birmingham’s [...]
July 27, 2008
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Obituary : Lord Stokes
THE INDEPENDENT Lord Stokes: Tough industrialist unfairly blamed for the failure of Leyland’s merger with the British Motor Corporation Donald Stokes was chairman of the ill-fated British Leyland Motor Corporation from 1968 to 1975. He was unfairly blamed for the inevitable failure of the government-inspired attempt to bring together all the major British-owned motor companies [...]
July 22, 2008
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Obituary : Lord Stokes
DAILY TELEGRAPH Lord Stokes, who died yesterday aged 94, was probably the most outspoken industrialist in Britain in the 1970s when, as chairman of British Leyland, he used colourful language to warn repeatedly of the need for Britain to improve her efficiency to compete effectively in world markets. Sadly, factors including industrial strife and lack [...]
July 21, 2008
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Obituary : Lord Stokes
Lord Stokes: former president of British Leyland Keith Adams and Clive Goldthorp ‘I was not and I have never pretended to be a manufacturing expert, ever. I have no pretensions as to that.’ This quote is all the more curious when one considers that it is attributed to Lord Stokes, the man charged by the [...]
July 21, 2008
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Obituary : Lord Stokes
THE TIMES As chairman and managing director of the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC) from its creation in 1968 from the merger with British Motor Holdings and the Leyland Motor Corporation until its demise in a government reorganisation in 1975, Lord Stokes was faced with the intractable task of bringing some shape and order to [...]
July 21, 2008
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Obituary : Lord Stokes
THE GUARDIAN British Leyland chief given the unenviable task of turning round the UK car industry in the late 1960s Roger Cowe Lord Stokes, who has died aged 94, had what the Financial Times described as “the toughest job held by any boss in Britain” when, as Sir Donald Stokes, he was given a key [...]
July 21, 2008
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News : 17 July 2008
News digest Compiled by Clive Goldthorp 1) SAIC Motor/MG and Roewe MG3 SW – the car that will make MG in China China Car Times, 11th July, 2008 China Car Times has decided that the MG3 SW is going to be the car that turns MG into a well known brand in China. It wasn’t [...]
July 17, 2008
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Car of the month : July 2008
The Rover 400 was a disappointing replacement for the 200/400 range, but that hasn’t stopped Stephen Golder picking and choosing the best parts he can to upgrade his unusual Honda powered Automatic version. One of the last of the line, you can guarantee this is one well-sorted example of the breed. Words and Pictures: Stephen [...]
July 1, 2008
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