While You Were Sleeping: February 4th, 2015

by Derek Kreindler

Published: February 4th, 2015

Cars and energy seem to be a growing theme around here. Today’s edition discusses both issues.

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Corey Lewis on Feb 04, 2015

I fully believe that any JLR products made in the USA would be the most well-built products they ever made - ever.

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- Lie2me on Feb 04, 2015
  
  Has there ever been an English car made in the US?
  
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- Corey Lewis on Feb 04, 2015
  
  @Lie2me I honestly don't think so. If there were, it would likely have been a rebadge job - something like the Honda-Rover times.
  
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- FractureCritical on Feb 04, 2015
  
  they'll probably just build it in a 3rd world nation like Alabama or Mississippi.
  
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- Bumpy ii on Feb 04, 2015
  
  @Lie2me There were some way back in the ancient times before the 1930s, but nothing much since then.
  
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- BklynPete on Feb 04, 2015
  
  @Corey Lewis Rolls-Royce made left-drive cars in Springfield Mass from 1921 until about 1931, While it was the Great Depression that killed sales, there was a snobbery of buyers who perceived the US-built cars weren't as good as the RHD Crewe cars.
  
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- Corey Lewis on Feb 04, 2015
  
  @BklynPete If I'm an upper-crust American in 1925, my RR better damn well be a British RR. Who cares if the driver has to sit on the right!
  
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- CarnotCycle on Feb 04, 2015
  
  @Lie2me "Has there ever been an English car made in the US?" English company? Aside from McLaren, there are no British - much less English - car companies that matter. Only their badge-corpses remain, contrived to look alive in a corporate imitation of Weekend at Bernie's. I don't think an Indian company has ever made cars in the United States before, so there's that.
  
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- Lie2me on Feb 04, 2015
  
  @CarnotCycle I guess I should have said English *brand* If it wasn't for Tata there'd be no Jaguar. If it wasn't for FIAT there'd be no Jeep, but it's still an American brand
  
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Landcrusher on Feb 04, 2015

The Morgan three wheelers that were better than the Morgan's, not Morgan's and are now I believe built by Morgan in the UK. So, that wouldn't really count now that I think about it. I'm just sad I don't fit in one so I may be obsessing a bit.

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BklynPete on Feb 04, 2015

Rolls-Royce made left-drive cars in Springfield Mass from 1921 until about 1931, While it was the Great Depression that killed sales, there was a snobbery of buyers who perceived the US-built cars weren't as good as the RHD Crewe cars.

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Cabriolet on Feb 04, 2015

Austin build cars in the U.S.A. before world war two. I think it was called the Austin Bantam, Don't know if that was the correct spelling but they also designed a Jeep for the U.S.Army before the world war II. I understand it beat out the Ford & Willy's Jeep but the army could not accept it because they did not have the means of production that Ford && Willy's had

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