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Originally Posted by bigman  The Indica will never sell in the UK. How many bought it when it was reincarnated as the Rover City ? Very bad sales and even worse reviews. |
Agreed. But the Indica v3, with upgraded interior and with a bargain basement price may sell in respectfull numbers. The bigger models will be more important... One thing is a cert, Rover is TATA's best option when taking their cars to Europe. In the English language TATA is too close to the word tatty (which means rubbish). It's also a well known brand so it will get them in the headlines and generate PR. Trying to set up a new brand from scratch in an established market would be higher risk IMHO.
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Originally Posted by iraghava Yup Thad, BMW sold Land Rover to Ford for a healthy sum & it got joined into Ford's PAG divison (LR, Jag, AM, Volvo) while after unsuccessfully trying to run Rover/MG, they sold it to the Phoenix Consortium for a tenner & Rover even got money from the British Govt. to keep them afloat. |
Rover didn't get any subsidy from the Government. BMW gave them a dowry of 500 million to take it off their hands, but in the car industry this is small change, but it kept them going for 5 years and they developed 3 new MG's variants and a "supercar", they ran out of money to redevelop the Indica though.....