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Re: The Brits are down to one now.
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Originally posted by benebob
Just read in my new Autoweek that TVR has been sold to a 24 year old Russian. That leaves lowly Morgan (the company no one thought would ever last) as the sole British owned automaker. Such a shame, there would be no VW, no BMW, no Mercedes, no Alfa, no Lancia without the British capital after WWII and look what competition got them.
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Don't believe everything you read in the papers. MG Rover is the largest British owned car manufacturer. There are a few others around too, admittedly nothing like a couple of decades ago.
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