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12th May 2019, 09:00 | #31 |
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I'm guessing Mike's car will have any updates done before delivery. Car is stored at Longbridge. Here's hoping.......
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12th May 2019, 09:39 | #32 |
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Hopefully MG UK will have the foresight to let Gaydon motor museum take the cars from the museum in the conference centre and also Lord Austin’s office before they are lost forever, it’s like 2005 all over again.....
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12th May 2019, 10:24 | #33 |
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I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but with at least two empty car plants, one in Swindon and another near Sunderland, is it time for an entrapenuer (sp) to take them over and restart British car manufacturing?
Of course in todays climate they would have to be electric vehicles. Anybody heard anything?
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Yes, Swindon is ideal and there is still the Mini building at Longbridge which is up to date and modern. I can't see any individual doing it and I can't see a major group taking on those sites. Having said all that it is rumoured PSA will buy JLR. One of the few car makers still in profit and may just turn around JLR? So it moves from Indian to French owned!
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12th May 2019, 11:54 | #35 |
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All the empty sites will end up as either new housing, or warehousing for the likes of amazon etc.
As a manufacturing centre, Britain is dead. Makes me sad to think that we were world leaders in manufacturing and designing the best cars in the world.
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When I bought the Dacia Stepway we also considered the MG GS, but we chose the Dacia for its three cylinder turbocharged petrol engine, the attraction was the £30 a year tax bracket. We were quite impressed by the medium to large car type/mini SUV sized vehicle, as most low VED bracket cars are small sized, the Dacia broke the mould. Yes we could get it serviced by any garage mechanic as long as new parts were fitted, or a Dacia or Renault agent. Dacia were moving their servicing over to Renault, so we thought we were it good hands. This was until we needed some new parts, this is when we found the parts were not available in the UK, and would take some time to be shipped from abroad. Friends of ours had similar issues with their Ford, the problem seems to be widespread. New cars and their components are being built with a large percentage of recycled plastic being used, all designed to help the environment. A new car end of life is considerably shorter these days, purposely designed with recycling in mind, during its build and after its life. |
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Alternatively, as we head for a situation where, like Cuba, we are left with a stock of ageing cars, and no dealership support, an entrepreneur designs electric motor conversion packs, complete with regenerative braking, ready mounted on a compatible subframe, for all our most popular ex-British manufactured cars - all parts manufactured here, of course. I'm sure the European manufacturers will be happy to keep selling us parts for the cars they have made, even if they attract an import tarif. (which may not happen).
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12th May 2019, 17:28 | #39 |
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anyone with a bit of sense of history, will stick to an older car.
the new ones will spy on you, stop automatically if you don't pay your speeding fines, congestion charges, parking infringements, maintenance support, taxes, global warming levies etc etc. The future is almost here. That leaves room for an old Rover P4! and such. They will continue to go as long as you just feed them! and they can be fixed with a hammer and some bailing wire! No EMF, network breakdown or G5 will stop them! Any governments nightmare!
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My Streetwise diesel is hardly ancient but it’s simple design makes it run and run with minimum of fuss. Hold on to your older cars.
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