Rover name to be sold ? It's official as of 22/8/06

BlueRover · Post by **BlueRover** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:56 pm

I heard today that BMW may be selling the Rover name to Nanjing but Ford may get first refusal, any confirmation or denials ?

BMW have finally sold the name but not disclosing to whom.

mach1rob · Post by **mach1rob** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:08 am

I thought najankingonnnggg had already purchased for 11million

BlueRover · Post by **BlueRover** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:46 am

Maybe they have, maybe they haven't?

Perhaps it will be changed to Lover ?

dave-mg · Post by **dave-mg** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:58 am

BlueRover wrote:I heard today that BMW may be selling the Rover name to Nanjing but Ford may get first refusal, any confirmation or denials ?

how can bmw sell the rover name???? i didnt think they owned the name as they sold rover & mg.

listie · Post by **listie** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:26 am

From what I heard BMW held onto the Rover name and the logo and in effect took comission everytime it was used, thats why the Rover badge was changed

Tritium · Post by **Tritium** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:12 am

From what I read in ther german financial times, BMW had /has still the rights on the brand Rover with the rights on the badge.
But Ford has the right of buying it first, cause they got that right with buying the Land-Rover mark. But now what I really wanted to say...Ninjang bought the brand MG, and or but now SAIC will buy the brand Rover, not Ninjang!

look here (sorry itÂ´s german):
http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/industrie/105079.html

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:53 pm

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=14803

BlueRover · Post by **BlueRover** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:38 am

Quote from the above article:
"But now a new chapter awaits Morris Garages. MG is going to stand for something new under its new owners, according to Nanjing boss Zhang Xin. He said: "We want Chinese consumers to know this brand as 'Modern Gentleman'. To see that this brand represents grace and style."

Don't they realise that's the reason MG-Rover didn't have a particularly good image to many people. MG needs to be the a$$ kicking, mother fu**ing, come on if you think you're hard enough brand if it's going to succeed again.

mach1rob · Post by **mach1rob** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:12 am

But isn't "Modern Gentleman" usually a larger lout that WILL kick your head in if looked at wrong way?

Post by **SubCat001** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:32 pm

listie wrote:From what I heard BMW held onto the Rover name and the logo and in effect took comission everytime it was used, thats why the Rover badge was changed

Yeah it was part of the deal done with Ford over Land Rover. Ford where worried that anyone who bought the Rover brand may use it to market a rival 4x4. So BMW kept the rights to the Rover name, along with triumph and thats why we dont have a Sand ROver Freeloader

To me this is a sad day for the MG-Rover brand. Despite the debacle of the Phoenix consortium, MG-Rover had survived with some dignity. All I can see now is Nanklangers aquiring the rights to build the Perodua Nippa and market it as the New Rover Hetro.

Post by **Punx0r** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:19 pm

mach1rob wrote:But isn't "Modern Gentleman" usually a larger lout that WILL kick your head in if looked at wrong way?

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No, probably some "metrosexual" bloke with a Â£100 haircut...

Post by **Stu** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:04 am

SAIC have bought the Rover name not Nanjing (who own MG).

They will be selling the stretched 75 with their own version of the MkII front end built in China using the K4 and KV6 engines.

Tritium · Post by **Tritium** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:53 pm

In the german newspaper there was an "drawback" (?) of the addvertised deal. BMW and SAIC saying that they only discuss about selling/buying the brand but nothing is done yet.
So the Brand hasnÂ´t been sold...yet.

BlueRover · Post by **BlueRover** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:33 am

updated title.

MGR_Petrolhead · Post by **MGR_Petrolhead** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:24 am

It hasnt been sold yet, as it all depends on Ford's decision.

Ford themselves are in trouble with rumours of selling jaguar and Land rover as a unit - could this be intertwined with the rover brand sale?

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