MG's new owners?

[AdamW]

I have just read that Nikolai Smolensky, the Russian who recently bought TVR, is interested in buying the Longbridge plant. It is well known that Smolensky wants to improve quality control and the TVR build standards (I work with a few TVR owners who told me that each car is slightly different depending on who built it and what was lying around the workshop ), apparently moving TVR to Longbridge will aid this. Also he is interested in purchasing the rights and tooling for the MG TF.

Could be good news for the workers of Longbridge... I hope TVRs' Blackpool workforce are taken into consideration too!

 

[pipme]

......As for Abramovich: 'I don't have a problem with a Russian buying shares in Britain but it is clear we should close the book on the period of plundering.' He adds: 'Some think $1 trillion has been hidden away by Russian businessmen. If they don't return that, our courts are likely to decide they acquired it illegally. Then they couldn't use that money......

May be a little shaky, then ... according to old Gorby :-
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