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Except that landrover isn't owned by rover anymore, it was sold off to ford.


Technically, BMW owned both rover brands. There were losing a lot of money on the project. They sold the Landrover brand to Ford (Ford lucked out and got a nice truck, fully engineer by BMW!) , kept the Mini brand (but had to spend millions reworking the Mini before it went into production because of quality and manufacturing issues) and sold off the Rover brand. It has been a while since I followed it, but I heard some rich folks, maybe from Russia were going to buy Rover. That may have fallen through, maybe some Brits stepped in to try to save it? Regardless, whoever bought it from BMW wasn't able to save it. I guess Rover really died when BMW decided enough was enough.
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