FIAT's negotiations for Land Rover and Jaguar have paused while FIAT considers the effect of the acquisition, of what were once the pride of the British former car industry, on its bonds' investment grade rating .
FIAT has only put off buying Land Rover and Jaguar temporarily as it has good logistical reasons for the purchase; it intends to expand in off road vehicle production, and the Jaguar acquisition fits with its expansion plans for Alfa Romeo in the North American market.
Coventry and Birmingham seem as far away as the 1980s.
Sic transit gloria mundi (though it's pleasing that the Defender will soon be so much at home here).
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They don't make Transits as well, do they HG?
Ford Transits? Sounds right.
It's so sad, ND, the Land Rover is a terrific vehicle, it really can do anything (except get itself built in Coventry).
I commented somewhere here , whats happened ?
Have you been fighting HG ?
I was watching the French Open finals with Federer AND Nadal and found trolling evil had slipped past my editorial control, N.
Angels only started at Easter but never have I deleted a comment - as editor I have refused publication, but that is what editors do - and these repeated outbursts only got through at all because it was finals day.
Mr HG has found the carbine so what I'm worried about now is over kill.
is this about cars?
I'll get straight over there and vote for you repeatedly M.
yes Mutt it's about cars & vans; Fords, apparently
Transits, and the glorious Mundeo (sic)
HG, a terrific vehicle indeed, I learned to drive on a Land Rover (SWB airportable , natch)
Mine is a dark green LWB; it doesn't need to be airportable because it's almost certainly got wings only I can't find the lever, or the takeoff gear. But they're there somewhere.
Collecting two English friends from Pisa airport in it, they blinked when they saw their transport; 'you can do an outburst of 'There'll always be an England' if you like, I offered.
So they did and, as churchgoers, theirs are fine, strong, singing-out voices.
and syncromesh - do you need to double de-clutch between 1st-2nd, and 3rd-2nd?
(or is it post 1980?)
the lost art
Errr ?? It has an engine by BMW and goes really fast (particularly with singing inside) and, as I mentioned elsewhere it "has been tried and tested by armies throughout the world" it says so in its instruction book.
The Instruction Book is very fine, has sections on fixed mounts (?, I thought for machine guns perhaps); local hunters tell me it's the best, and they appear to be carrying machine guns.
It has an engine by BMW and goes really fast
Ha , you can fill a woman to the brim with cleverness but a woman she remains . What a relief although thats about as far as I get with cars. Nick is probably a very practical and capable of living from dung beetles under a pocket handkerchief for weeks
( He never goes the same way twice you know ...can`t say to much ...)
No redundant information; tells those who are au fait with these kinds of things what sort it is.
Efficiency.
(resolves to practise use of imagery while N blogless in Cornwall).
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