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My guess would be when Rover or rather BMW, sold the technology to SAIC, who now own MG.
With Ford purchasing Rover, who recently sold the name to JaguarLR, SAIC needed a established name to put on the Rover technology. They use MG I believe in Europe and in Asia use the name ‘Roewe’. The Roewe 750 has recently stopped being made, but they used Rover 75s and just put a Roewe badge on them for over 10 years, up until 2016. So I believe these may have been bought by SAIC and stripped for parts, or resold under the ‘Roewe’ name. But if you look up the new MGs, a lot of them are the same as Roewe in Asia. Roewe and MG are as I said, both owned by SAIC. It’s definitely also worth looking up Roewe 750, they’re identical to the 75! Not sure if anyone had mentioned this, but that’s why I think they were there anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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BMW sold Rover to the Phoenix consortium and Land Rover was sold to Ford who combined this Jaguar to form JLR. Ford purchased the Rover name from BMW and now this is owned by Tata. |
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Okay thanks for clearing that up! Maybe then the cars were used for parts/rebadged. But with no official word I guess we’ll never know. Such a shame. I wonder if any ‘Roewe 750s’ ever did make it to the UK. Would be cool to see one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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As Jim says, it is a convoluted story, which also has some involvement if I recall from another Chinese company, regarding the MG brand (Nanjang?). I cannot remember the full story, but more reading can be found HERE - there is a lot of worthwhile reading on that site, if you are not aware of it. There is discussion regarding the cars pictured in the OP, somewhere else on this site. Something about them being evaluation models, and were likely destroyed, but I think in truth, no one really knows for sure.
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