Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BMW announced today that they are selling off the part of the Rover car company in the UK. (Actually, they had to PAY a local group of investors to take the "English Patient" off their hands.) Land Rover will stay with BMW. The neat Viking-ship logo and the Rover name are to be retained by BMW, so the new company will call itself "MG". I shudder as much at this as I do at what Cosina has done to the Voigtlander heritage. Admittedly, MG, in its dying days, was part of British Leyland, as was Rover, but MG came from the Austin/Morris side of the house, and its roots are NOT to be found in the Rover plant, Rover coming from the Triumph/Standard side of things. This is roughly akin to Ford deciding to rename itself DeSoto, or Chryler to rename itself Edsel. Now, THAT misnaming offends this lad deeply: I learned to drive in an honest Rover 2000TC, back in Marin County in the Summer of Love, "when it was joy to be alive, and to be young was very heaven". Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!