It's a shame that Rover went out of business. They were the only mainstream manfacturer left that we could call truly British. But I must admit, from what I have heard some of the car that British Leyland built were...not good to be polite! I could say worse!
When all were doing is contracted to build for an outside comapny we do a smashing job more often than not. We've got some fantastic engineers and what not here in the UK. I think a lot of the problems come from managment, we don't know how to manage mass production car manufacture anymore. We do the small and nich stuff fantastically well, the stuff where you expect the odd problem here and there but the cars just worth it anyway because it provides an experience every time you turn the key. We do cars that try to kill you very well too, think TVR and Marcos, where it doesn't matter if the car will break down after 7000 miles, it will have killed you by then anyway. We can mass produce under foreign managment perfectly fine, we can build some very nice and well put together cars, I just don't think we can manage the big stuff over here.
