MG Rover...RIP. It now looks like MG Rover has bolted together their last car. For some it’s no lose, but as someone who nearly bought a 1972 Rover P5B, with the wonderful if somewhat thirsty Buick derived V8, I’m lugubrious to see another famous motoring brand disappear. The saddest thing is that as the Longbridge plant closes to be turned into flats and a retail park there really is nothing left for the MG Rover workforce to fall back on. The site was sold off a couple of years ago and leased back, BMW although sold Rover to Phoenix holdings for a tenner held onto ownership of the brand and ironically Shanghai Automotive own the IP for the 25 and the K-Series engine. Only MG brand has any potential, but without a factory and the suppliers nearby no one is going to be holding their breath. The next largest British owned company making cars is TVR, no hang on, that’s now in the hands of some spotty Russian teenager and Norfolk based Lotus is owned by Proton from Malaysia. Our contribution to volume car production? Cars made with hand beaten aluminium bodies on ash space frame chassis’…yes you’ve guessed it, it’s Morgan.