Christine Buckley, Industrial Editor, The Times, 8th November, 2008 The former bosses of MG Rover, who made an estimated £40m from the business, have stalled the publication of a Government report into their conduct. The Times has learnt that the inquiry, which was initiated by the former Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), was ready [...]

Jon Griffin, Business Editor, Birmingham Mail, 17th November, 2008   A HIGH Court showdown has been ordered over badge rights to the world’s most expensive MG – with a tiny West Midland firm pitted against one of the world’s biggest car makers. Trademarks Court official Allan James has ruled that Chinese group Nanjing’s claim for an [...]

Clive Goldthorp   The dispute about the ownership of the MG X POWER Trade Mark between MG Sports and Racing Europe Limited and Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation has received relatively little coverage in the national media (See: News Digests dated the 10th July, 2008 and the 25th October, 2008) until now and, as a consequence, not [...]

Honda: taking NAC MG’s lead in the UK? Clive Goldthorp The European market MG-badged, facelifted, Roewe 550 will be built at Longbridge. Economics will be have been a major factor in this decision. Did Honda come to the same conclusion? THE real significance of Honda Motor Company Limited (Honda) President and CEO Takeo Fukui’s recent [...]

Clive Goldthorp THE real significance of Honda Motor Company Limited (Honda) President and CEO Takeo Fukui’s recent announcement that the new MY09 Honda Jazz will be built at Honda of the UK Manufacturing Limited’s facility in Swindon seems to have been rather lost amidst all the doom and gloom generated by the impact of the [...]

15 November Chrysler-Rover… KEITH ANDREWS …I JUST thought about the recent (around one year old) Cerberus takeover of Chrysler and, suddenly, it dawned on me… It’s an almost EXACT re-run of what happened to Rover. Right down to the part played by ‘Ze Germans’… In the mid-1990s, the struggling remains of Rover were sold to [...]

90% of former Rover staff back in work Just-Auto Times have moved on, and the workforce is re-employed effectively. Yes, and no… Three years on from the collapse of MG Rover in April 2005, 90% of workers who lost their jobs have found new employment, but most have taken significant pay cuts, researchers found. A [...]

just-auto.com Editorial Team, 13th November, 2008 THREE years on from the collapse of MG Rover in April 2005, 90 per cent of workers who lost their jobs have found new employment, but most have taken significant pay cuts, researchers found. A study of a sample of the 6300 workers ex-Rover workers who lost their jobs [...]

Jon Griffin, Business Editor, Birmingham Mail, 12th November, 2008 THE top man at Jaguar Land Rover says he is ‘personally insulted’ by the amount of ‘bland’ Japanese and German cars on UK roads. In a no-holds-barred attack on rival products, JLR Chief Executive David Smith called into question the quality of the opposition. Mr Smith [...]

News digest Compiled by Clive Goldthorp 1) Jaguar and Land Rover Jaguar Land Rover seeking voluntary redundancies as it axes up to 400 jobs John Cranage, Industrial Editor, Birmingham Post, 4th November, 2008 Jaguar Land Rover is to axe up to a further 400 jobs as the global economic downturn takes its toll on the [...]

News digest Compiled by Clive Goldthorp 1) Jaguar and Land Rover JLR Workers sent home Autocar.co.uk, 27th October, 2008 Workers at Halewood – Jaguar Land Rover’s Merseyside factory – have this week off as the company freezes production at the plant. The planned stoppage, announced last month, is meant to avoid stockpiling cars that are [...]

Another of AROnline’s international readers dazzles us with their sensational Rover. This time, it’s a 216GTi and it lives in Buenos Airies in Argentina – not exactly your typical stamping ground for the R8. Its owner, Alejandro Cáceres tells the story of how he fell for Rovers, and why he’s now the proud owner of [...]