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MG Rover sold to Nanjing Auto


Cars in China Topics:  MG Rover, Nanjing Automobile Corporation

MG Rover sold to Nanjing Auto

Wikinews
July 22, 2005

Administrators PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PWC) have announced that the British car company MG Rover and its engine manufacturer Powertrain Ltd has been sold to Chinese company Nanjing Automobile for an unknown sum of money.  The company beat bids from Shanghai Automotive (SAIC), despite being the smaller of the two.

MG Rover collapsed this Spring, after struggling to make a profit for several years.

SAIC had tried to buy only the engine plant and then transfer it to China, but in June Nanjing Automobile approached PWC with a combined bid for both the car manufacturing company and Powertrain.  This Monday SAIC bid for both but the offer was inferior to Nanjing's.

Nanjing has indicated that it too will move the engine production plant to China, along with some car manufacturing.  However it also intends to continue building cars in Britain, and establish an engineering research and design centre there in an effort to expand its sales globally.  Nanjing intends to start hiring at once.

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