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"Successors
The name Austin is now owned by Nanjing who bought the assets of MG Rover
Group (British Leyland's successor company) out of bankruptcy in 2005. After
Donald Healey sold his original business, Donald Healey Motor Company, the
Healey brand was registered to a new firm, Healey Automobile Consultants,
which the Healey family sold to HFI Automotive in 2005.
In June 2007, Nanjing and Healey Automobile Consultants / HFI Automotive
signed a collaborative agreement that aims to recreate the Austin Healey and
Healey marquees alongside NAC's MG. No timeline has been given as to when the
Healey and Austin-Healey brands will return, although MG will be back on the
market in China and the UK by the year's end."
Charlie
BJ7 Modified
Noting the comments about Hummer, etc.
Has anybody heard word one about the disappearance of the Healey name as a
brand? When it was last seen, it was reported in the possession of a Swiss
gearhead b having been purchased from the Healey grandchildren b along
with
all of the files from the erstwhile Healey Museum in Virginia. At that time,
promises were made that the name would reappear on a Healey sports car, and
the files and collection would reappear as a museum at the Swiss
headquarters of the reborn Healey Automobile Company.
Anybody? Anything?
Gary
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