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RE: Land Rover press release

To: buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net, "'Glen Wilson'" <rovercar@home.com>
Subject: RE: Land Rover press release
From: "Jones, Daniel C" <Daniel.Jones@MW.Boeing.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 13:54:04 -0600
> You won't see any Ford V8s in Rovers because Rovers are ALL small
> front-engined, front-wheel-drive vehicles.  You may see a Ford V8 in a
> Land
> Rover, but that's a different kettle of fish.
> 
Ford purchased the Land/Range Rovers only.  The automobile side 
was purchased by the same group that purchased MG.  

> It's not that big of a deal, but a Land Rover is a Land Rover.  Calling a
> Land Rover a Rover is like calling a Dodge Durango a Chrysler.  You might
> as
> well call it what it is.
> 
The article implied the Rover autos would be renamed MG's.

Dan Jones


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