When Rover Met BMW - Episode 1: Don't Mention The War 

Pretty sure the Italians didn't take offence. After all, if we can laugh at ourselves then we can laugh at others or is that too British for you?

Spot On.

@@jemimallah sorry don’t agree to be honest. The damage was done years before BMW came along, through years & years of lack of investment in Rover Group by British Aerospace who owned it at the time & as a result being hampered by expensive Honda licensing agreements for all the cars. Given time it probably could’ve been turned round like VAG did with Skoda. But it was losing far too much cash to wait, the poor DM >GBP exchange rate was the final straw. So I would level the blame at BAe managers not Rover.

Yes. If the workers were truly proud to be British they would have upped the build quality and lobbied management, through their shop stewards, to increase spend per vehicle to enable decent rust proofing for example. This way their product would have competed more successfully with those from VW. They would have kept more repeat customers and not gained a poor reputation. A bit of creative thinking applied and management could have bought in a new Golf mk1, stripped it down along side an Allegro and gone from there. Very sad.

@@Ben-jq5oo you’re talking about 20 years before this though.

I stopped watching it when I realised how toxic Clarkson’s humour was. The way he used it to influence May and Hammond, along with the audience, is the definition of a malignant narcissist. No better than Trump.

Germans know what they like and know that they do it best 😂

Doing the Germans a Favour! 😂

Doing the Germans a Favour! 😂

Management was absolutely appalling in landrover and rover cars

Yes but the way the workers seem to have forgotten that they are at a place of work, they're acting like a bunch of jokers. I can see why management gave up @@darendalton856

Same

Having known what happened subsequently you can absolutely see how and why things went belly up fast. I reckon BMW didn’t realise actually how bad things were in rover and how far behind they were. Without Honda there was nothing much there at this stage

@@mfitzy100 Yeah I have to agree all Rover produced was shiteboxes at that stage.

Ask John towers how he hid all the faults on rolling road from bmw pushing cars off the track before wolfganger arrived