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03/09/2020 at 21:08 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
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Like I said at the bottom of the previous post.
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BMW wanted to revive the name Riley and make the Rover 75 into a coupe.
I did this second post as someone did do a Rover 75 coupe.
And it looks the bomb.
It would of suited the V8 front end more and is wearing an MG grille with a Rover badge on but otherwise, it looks really great.
He also did a pickup 75 too.
Not keen on the faux wood grille and strips that run around the car.
He also did a ‘double header’ but meh.
ranwhenparked
> Svend
03/09/2020 at 21:34 |
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BMW actually retained ownership of the Riley trademark when they disposed of the rest of Rover Group, aside from MINI.
The coupe concept was from 2004 though, so it represented more of MG Rover’s desperate attempts to look as though they had money when they didn’t. See also the fake spy shots of Rover 45s and MG ZSs running around with garbage bags taped over them to appear as development mules.
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> ranwhenparked
03/09/2020 at 21:42 |
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That’s. . .
. . .really sad, even as someone who o nly heard of BL and Rover from Top Gear.
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Svend
> ranwhenparked
03/09/2020 at 21:56 |
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Bernd Pischets reider was a profound anglophile and wanted to revive the names Riley and Wolseley while in charge or Rover.
The Riley coupe/75 coupe concept was from 2004, but Mr ‘P’ had expressed shortly after the launch or the Rover 75 than he wanted to make a coupe version and bring back the Riley name (until he was moved in 1999) .
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ranwhenparked
> Svend
03/09/2020 at 22:08 |
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Bernd Pischetsrieder, he’s Sir Alec Issigo nis’ nephew and did seem to genuinely want to revive Rover Group. However, BMW’s upper management almost immediately got cold feet, when the new 200 and 400 failed to meet sales projections (partly due to BMW’s decision to overprice them), and when the US launch of the MG F was torpedoed to avoid competing with the Z3. At the public unveiling of the 75, Pischetsrieder was totally blindsided when his boss announced to the world that BMW was reevaluating its investment in Rover and was going to be talking to the British government about its problems.
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Svend
> ranwhenparked
03/09/2020 at 22:18 |
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The whole thing about the motor industry in the U.K. has been a joke of mismanagement after mismanagement.
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ranwhenparked
> Svend
03/09/2020 at 22:25 |
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Pretty much. The weird thing is Rover was actually doing reasonably well in the early ‘90s, with the Mk1 400/Mk2 200/Mk2 800 lineup, and Honda was more than willing to put up the cash to double their shareholding from 20% to 40%, but BAE just did not want to be in the car business at all and offloaded the whole thing to BMW (without actually telling Honda, until the deal was already done).
EDIT: Come to think of it, you might as well add the shipbuilding, steel, shipping, commercial aircraft, mining, electricity, and motorcycle industries to the list of sectors of the British economy that have suffered badly from mismanagement. Also airlines, since British Airways is essentially Spanish owned now.