[Healeys] Classic names are part of Tata deal

[jeff hansen]

I wonder if these marques will go the way of the "new"
Healey?

Jeff Hansen
--- rfeibusch1 at earthlink.net wrote:

> Tony Lewin
> 
> Automotive News | March 27, 2008 - 6:46 am EST
> Tata Motors will get the right use three classic
> British auto-brand names as
> part of its $2.3 billion deal to buy Jaguar and Land
> Rover.
> 
> Included in the deal are the Rover name and the
> Jaguar-owned names of Daimler
> and Lanchester. Ford bought the rights to the Rover
> brand name from BMW in
> September 2006 for
> >an undisclosed sum to ensure no other automaker
> could use it and cause
> >confusion with the Land Rover brand.
> >
> >"We acquired the Rover trademark in the interests
> of protecting Land Rover,"
> >said Ford of Europe spokesman John Gardiner. "So
> it's also in the interests
> of
> >the new owner of Land Rover to have it."
> >
> >BMW obtained ownership of the Rover name when it
> bought the Rover group in
> >1994. In 2006, BMW refused a request from China's
> SAIC to use the Rover
> brand
> >name under license. SAIC had bought some assets of
> the ailing MG Rover group
> >and now builds cars called Roewes in China.
> >
> >Jaguar acquired the rights to sell cars badged as
> Daimlers in 1960 from the
> UK
> >Daimler car company that was founded in 1896 and
> licensed by Gottlieb
> Daimler
> >to use his internal combustion engine. The UK
> Daimler car company also owned
> >the Lanchester brand name.
> >
> >
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