... these latest days, I heard about the difficulties encountered by the car constructor Rover and this morning, it's the end. Really sad for a 100 years old company, "so british"... In the seventies, they produced uninteressant cars (except the model named "Princess") when the company was still the British Leyland. But it improved in the nineties, with the help of the japanese Honda.

And later, the take-over from BMW opened the door to the hope of a real new start. I liked the Rover 75, which looked like a small Jaguar. It's a pity and, of course, a big problem for 5.000 employees who are going to loose their job (at a whole, 18.000 workplaces could be hit) .

It's also a sad news for Tony Blair, at a moment where polls are coming soon...

Yes, it is sad for all the people who have lost their jobs. It's a private company now, so I don't think the government should do too much to bail it out. The person who originally stripped it of assets should be bought to book.
In the UK, people are saying that it's the en dof British car manufacturing...

I think the government should have done more though to be honest

I think the government has done all it can, the responsibility for Rover's demise lies firmly with the 4 directors, headed by John Towers, who have systematically sold off the company's assets, sold it's intellectual propery and taken most of the money for themselves and their pension funds. The news today is that the Chinese will produce Rover cars, what did anyone expect after they'd bought the rights and what were the directors thinking of by selling the rights if only their own interests? I would like to see criminal proceedings brought against these four people.

It is the end of tradition of car-making in the Midlands, I think the governament should have saved it.