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Old 23rd July 2020, 02:12   #24
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Originally Posted by jim_k View Post
Hi Adam, BMW never sold the 75 or any IP to SAIC. It's a convoluted story you can unravel from Wikipedia but the designs and assets did eventually end up with SAIC.

BMW sold Rover to the Phoenix consortium and Land Rover was sold to Ford who combined this Jaguar to form JLR. Ford purchased the Rover name from BMW and now this is owned by Tata.

Okay thanks for clearing that up! Maybe then the cars were used for parts/rebadged. But with no official word I guess we’ll never know. Such a shame. I wonder if any ‘Roewe 750s’ ever did make it to the UK. Would be cool to see one.


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