Rover bombs BMW ... again!

[Thunda Downunda]

AF'ers will recall the massive & unsustainable losses incured by BMW after it bought troubled British car maker Rover, which never once made a profit for the Germans in all the years of BMW stewardship. In fact Rover's annual losses were usually equivalent to the original purchase price paid for it by BMW - year after miserable year. Eventually BMW managed to unload Rover to a British holding company for the pricely sum of 10 pounds (about the cost of an average hotel dinner) in a deal which also from memory included an interest-free loan of around US$500,000!

Well BMW might have thought they were finally rid of financial imoposts by "the English Patient" as Rover was unaffectionally known ..

Not so! The BMW bottom line took another hit recently when the discovery of an unexploded BOMB halted construction work on a new BMW plant in Germany.

It transpired that it was a British WW2 device, originally made at the Rover factory in Longbridge!!

[Chris]

Thats pretty funny, as long as no one is hurt.

That is kind of shocking, but I love it still

[Thunda Downunda]

... and they thought hostilities finished in 1945 lol!

seems Rover have a lo-ong history of making devices that self-destruct :right:

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I KNOW A LOT OF CARS BUT ROVER NEVER HEARD THAT NAME

:finger3:

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I KNOW A LOT OF CARS BUT ROVER NEVER HEARD THAT NAME

:smoka:

[Chris]

An english car company, now in dire straits. www.rover.co.uk is there web site.