Comments on: Britain Orders Industry Report

By: driving course

driving course — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:44:52 +0000

I’m trying to think of one aspect of the UK that political involvement has helped…
I’ll have to come back to you…

By: guyincognito

guyincognito — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:56:21 +0000

I guess the question is, why now? Why not 30 years ago?

Unfortunately, with RPJ heading up this project they’ll end up with an overpriced downmarket BMW wanna be.

By: mikey

mikey — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:04:15 +0000

Yes I remember them well.We had our share in Canada,winter was not kind to them.

By: 50merc

50merc — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:45:45 +0000

mikey — good to see someone else remembers the Morris Minor. When I was a kid in western Kansas we had an eccentric but lovable neighbor named Charley Morris. He bought a Morris Minor for his wife to drive. The little car was quite a curiosity. I guess it was the similarity in name that prompted the purchase, because the nearest Morris dealer must have been at least 300 miles away. Kids were fascinated by the “flipper” turn indicators that popped out of the B pillar. If that car was still being made today, they could sell advertising space on the turn signals to Viagra.

By: ihatetrees

ihatetrees — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:27:56 +0000

Simple solution…

Highlight current British labour law.
Press ‘delete’.
Highlight Texas labor law (and don’t forget the right-to-work areas).
Press ‘control+c’.
Go back to British labour law.
Press ‘control+v’.

Problem solved.

By: HEATHROI

HEATHROI — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:21:55 +0000

sitting@home

don’t forget the usual one technological leap forward cobbled together with the same old ancient crap (gearboxs, drivetrains, engines) that they had keep on using because they had spent the budget.

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:40:27 +0000

Sitting: Dude. Word.

Don’t forget the Lucas, Prince of Darkness, Electrical Systems.

I still want an XK150.

By: Drew Frink

Drew Frink — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:19:49 +0000

Britain still has a motor industry?

The UK government needs to read
Whatever Happened to the British Motorcycle Industry by Burt Hopwood. Come to think of it, Detroit folks could probably use a quick read of that book as well.

I do wish them well (as a much avowed Brit car/bike enthusiast with a Austin Healey Sprite and new Triumph Bonneville in the garage).

By: Frank Williams

Frank Williams — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:01:16 +0000

mikey
Is that a mid fifties Morris Minor?

Give the man a cee-gar!!

By: sitting@home

sitting@home — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:52:03 +0000

Hey I can save the UK govt millions and tell them what happened :

Union workforces that held the manufacturers to ransom. Designers who thought they knew what the customers wanted better than the actual customers did. Vehicles that rusted and fell apart the second they drove off the sales forecourt. Cheaper and better made imports. A government that said selling off to foreign ownership would bring investment into the country. And a trade arrangement that meant manufacturing could be moved to lower wage countries with no downside.

If that sounds a lot like Detroit circa 2008, I think the outcome will ultimately be the same.

By: mikey

mikey — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:24:21 +0000

Is that a mid fifties Morris Minor?