Why Rover crashed, part 3

Why Rover crashed? Quentin Willson investigates for ITV's TONIGHT with Trevor McDonald broadcasted on 13 June 2005. Part 3 shows how incompetent Phoenix Four wasted millions of pounds on motor sport and entertaining instead of putting the money into development of new cars...

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Why Rover crashed
• The Phoenix Four
• MG Rover

[AdamAus85]

Love the 75 and always remember Richard and Mrs Bucket in Keeping up Appearances in their old Rover. I'd love a mint 75 for a weekender.

[4000marco]

as a marketeer myself i really feel like Rover could have existed if they actually had some good leaders in marketing..

[kernals12]

I never knew that the bosses of a company could be so stupid

[chefblanc]

i wonder how the mini stood in all this..? perhaps it would have been successfull if our car remained in british hands ...?

[supertrix101]

@mondeost2202008 agreed

[TJ347]

@discocreator76 I'm in the US. Not really up on what's going on lately with the company.

[mondeost2202008]

MG Rover justified what Top Gear always say, "Ambitious but Rubbish" =P

[discocreator76]

@TJ347 Where have you been for the last 18months? That is exactly what MGR are doing in Longbridge now, they are make TFs again

[JELH]

Is there a part 4 coming?

[TJ347]

Sad. Somebody should go into small series production of the MG TF and MGR at least. No need to focus the company around selling thousands of cars when there's a market for a few hundred or a thousand cars per year.