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Originally Posted by GEaston
I defer to the Landrover story. Good initial design hampered by crap company management under British Leyland (state owned and state miss-managed). The last cars we produced (up to 2001) were the worst Land Rovers and Range Rovers ever produced and certainly the most unreliable. BMW bought the company and invested in it in 2002 - the Land Rovers and Range Rovers from 2003 onwards are superb. They sold it to Tata and we now produce more very high quality Land Rovers and Range Rovers than ever before. These are all made in Britain with British Jobs and exported to the world. Noone sees it as an Indian company even though it is.
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Hate to be pedantic, but BMW bought Land Rover along with Rover in 1994, they sold Land Rover in 2006, having sold Rover in 2000. Ford bought them then sold them to Tata.
Land Rover is a global brand, who is to say they will be continued to be built in the UK, the newly revived MG isn't.