MG Rover

When John Towers‘ Phoenix bid was accepted by BMW, he knew that there would be a long, hard road ahead to restoring the image of the company, so badly eroded […]

Words: Richard Yarrow and Tim Rose, AM-online, 8 July 2011 Photograph: Mark Gibson/Slant 4 Marketing Six years on from the disaster of the collapse of the MG Rover Group its […]

Alun Thorne, Birmingham Post, 8 May 2011 The Phoenix Four remained defiant after the Government announced that the former MG Rover owners had agreed to be disqualified as Directors for […]

BBC News, 8 May 2011 The Directors who ran MG Rover Group Limited when the company collapsed have been disqualified as Directors. Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson, John Edwards and John Towers – known as […]

Keith Adams A recent visit to Longbridge saw me set eyes upon the RDX60 for the first time ever and I have to say that it evoked mixed emotions in […]

David Bailey, Birmingham Post, 3rd March, 2011 A number of former MG Rover workers recently met with representatives of the Phoenix Four to see whether there will be a payment into the […]

Words and Photographs: Mike Humble  Well, as Keith Adams’ last blog states, winter is indeed upon us and, in true British tradition, we seem to be ill-equipped to cope with […]

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Post, 31st August, 2010 More than £23 million raised from the remnants of the collapsed Longbridge Phoenix empire could lie untouched for years – because of a […]

Channel 4 News, 13th July, 2010 A trustee of the MG Rover Trust Fund, which had promised compensation for workers who lost their jobs with the collapse of MG Rover […]

Parts specialist XPart has obtained statistics from the DVLA which show that over 1m MG Rover cars are still alive and well on the UK’s roads. The figures produced by […]

Nigel Garton It seems that the final MG Rover test and development cars have been sent to the crusher by SAIC Motor after being allowed to languish at Longbridge for […]

Jonathan Walker, Birmingham Post, 7th April, 2010 Former MG Rover Directors are facing renewed demands for the payment of a long-awaited Trust Fund to support their former workers, on the […]

KEITH ADAMS In the market for a Rover 2600, and have a spare £12,000 burning in your pocket? Then how about this ‘new’ and unregistered Series 2, which has just […]

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Mail, 15th January, 2010 LONGBRIDGE could have been sunk as long ago as 1994 by Japanese car giant Honda, former MG Rover Chairman John Towers has claimed. […]

Alun Thorne, Birmingham Post, 27th November, 2009 The company owned by the former bosses of MG Rover has paid £3 million to creditors of the firm. The so-called Phoenix Four […]

Alun Thorne, Birmingham Post, 16th November, 2009 Vilified Phoenix Four Directors Peter Beale and John Edwards are in line for a massive multi-million pound Christmas bonus from the remnants of […]

Jon Walker, Birmingham Post, 4th November, 2009 The Government has offered to back legal action forcing former Rover Directors to hand over up to £22 million to former employees and […]

Jonathan Walker, Birmingham Post, 23rd October, 2009 The four former MG Rover Directors criticised for their management of the carmaker vowed to clear their name last night after being summoned […]

Jonathan Guthrie, Financial Times, 25th September, 2009 Dr. Qu Li says she is being “stoned to death” twice over. First, a report on MG Rover revealed that the car company […]

David Bailey and John Clancy, Birmingham Post, 17th September, 2009 We know from last week’s hard-hitting Department of Business report that the Phoenix fat cats gave themselves “unreasonably large” payouts. […]

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Post, 16th September, 2009 The Phoenix Four have hit back at the “salacious tittle-tattle” exposed by the MG Rover inquiry after Chinese businesswoman Qu Li emerged as […]