Comments on: Report: Chinese automaker buys Rover name

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:15:58 +0000

^but he’d look less stupid dressed up like a viking.

I don’t know what to think if SAIC puts an MG factory in Ohio like I read in autoweek a while back..

By: Waof

Waof — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:21:33 +0000

I can only imagine some 6-foot tall, brainless red neck making some idoitic comment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:02:22 +0000

Can you imagine some 4-foot tall Chinese weakling rowing a Viking longship!?!?!?! LMFAO!

By: Mr Green

Mr Green — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:14:03 +0000

lol

By: Cole is a retard

Cole is a retard — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:57:16 +0000

Its a Viking longship you retard

By: Cole

Cole — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:34:24 +0000

I only realized just now that Rover’s logo is the front view of a big sailboat thing.

By: JohnnyBlazE

JohnnyBlazE — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:33:30 +0000

Rover we miss thee… bring back this car:

http://www.classicperformanceford.com/Rover_SD1_C999JHD/page01.htm

By: Wickedated

Wickedated — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:29:46 +0000

Don’t worry about the chinese. Remember, they’re commies.

By: JC Whitless

JC Whitless — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:04:06 +0000

Now that would be a fun photoshop contest…

Go to a chinese mfg website, steal a picture of one of the wacky rolling ‘junks’, and brand engineer an Oldsmobile or a Mercury

By: otis wildflower

otis wildflower — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:51:18 +0000

What else will China spend their dollars on, but struggling American companies that will give them access to the American market for higher-value goods and services?

My prediction is that China, if they haven’t bought either Ford or GM outright, will buy nameplates and “partner” with them. I can imagine Pontiac, Mercury, Saab, Oldsmobile becoming badges for some Chinese imports.

By: Betty Swollocks

Betty Swollocks — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:47:13 +0000

Yeah and we all know how much brand equity is left in the Rover name

By: JC Whitless

JC Whitless — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:41:06 +0000

Ply has been dead since 2001…

Although it would be the ideal brand name to give to “Smart” in the US….

By: monts

monts — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:39:02 +0000

Plymouth is dead?!?!?!

By: JC Whitless

JC Whitless — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:36:24 +0000

Imagine the money the US automakers could make if they sold their “orphan” brand names to China.

Desoto, Plymouth, Rambler, Geo, Chalmers, Maxwell, Auburn, Crosley, Checker, Desoto…

DCX would make an f’n killing.

Also, I bet the chinese would figure out retro would sell.

Yeah, I want a Studebaker Golden Hawk made in the Shunde District of Foshan City

By: justin

justin — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:33:49 +0000

–This is off topic but oh well–
i hate china… china IS going to lead to the downfall of America!! …its already happening.

By: Renton

Renton — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:30:04 +0000

I thought Rovers were bad when thery were built in England. Count me out.

By: mbftw

mbftw — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:25:28 +0000

No, two different companies. Otherwise it would be “Chinese automaker buys LAND Rover name”.

The yellow tide is comming.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:24:09 +0000

This **** is very confusing….isnt Land Rover the name of the company? And didnt Ford own it. Bimmer sold Land Rover to Ford but not the rights to the name…and 20million seems pretty cheap..lol i dunno.