Rover - were never any good, and if they were it will never be rememberd now as their so Crap. Even the chinese are thinkin of pullin out of a deal.
TVR - Build quality was never addressed, they jus continued to make some of the most ill fitting panels know to man.
Jaguar - trying to get their ass into gear but have a way to go as yet to compete with the rest of their class
Noble - has good reviews, but still we have to remember that it is a mondeo engine and the indicator stalks etc are nicked off felow badly designed british motors.
But its not all that bad, we do have Aston Martin to keep the flag afloat.
But Jap, never let you down "but if it does itll kill ya wallet off" LOL
And that other great british succsess story, RELIANT! You can take the piss out of the Robin as much as you like but it's STILL in production. You don't last that long in a cut-throat, dog-kill-maim-&-eat-dog market without doing something right!
Oh, and a couple of points, it's Robin Reliant, NOT Reliant Robin, and Del boy Trotter's van is not a Robin, it's a Regal. I'll get me coat!
We make Jaguar,Astons, Landys n Vauxhalls for the American owners.
Pugs for the French
Nissans for Renault
Honda for the Japs n old peeps
Lotus for someone
TVR for a russian bloke. there must be more.
On engineering we have a company in Northants makin` engines for Mercedes.McClaren n Honda.Hewland doing gearboxes,n there are more.Brit design houses in the UK are the best with Rapid tooling second to non.
The Chinese will come cos they need the designers n technology,just as the Japs did when they copied everbody else in the early 70s.Only this time the Jap car companys will suffer.
quote: Originally posted by: Chevy " The Chinese will come cos they need the designers n technology,just as the Japs did when they copied everbody else in the early 70s.Only this time the Jap car companys will suffer. -- Edited by Chevy at 22:53, 2005-04-04"
quote: Originally posted by: Deuce "What about the true Brit car building industry. The cottage industry of kits cars and rodders. But we are fighting even to keep that going."
Yep,good ole boys makin bits for proper cars,sufferin though cos some peeps suffer from a severe lack of judgement an buy foreign,then wonder why theres no money in the country.
Of course we do!
