Certainly sounds good to me! Of course BMW didn't have a hand in MG (??)
when the RV8 came out so don't know how that would pan out!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Bird [mailto:gobird@vbe.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 5:26 PM
> To: j r overcash; John A. Walker; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: MGF in America?
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> > There have been a number of reasons bated around, not the least of which
> > have to do with Federal emissions and safety stuff. But the
> most popular
> > seems to be the lack of a dealer network! Of course I don't buy it
> because
> > if there was really a desire to sell the car here dealers could be lined
> up.
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> Perhaps the problem is with the current dealers who used to have the MG
> franchise back in '80. Yep, many of them are still around. If
> they didn't
> offer the franchise to those, they may be in for some lawsuits,
> on the other
> hand if they do offer the franchise to those old dealers, what are the
> current BMW dealers going to say? I'll sue. Could be a no win situation,
> and combine that with the safety/emissions issue and it just may not be
> financially feasible.
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> My $.02
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> Gordie Bird
> '62 MGA
> '86 4kcsq
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