Miata Mailing List: February 1996, Message #197
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   From: dreamdsn@teleport.com (dreamdsn)
Subject: Re: The Rover MGF is a Loser
   Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 00:49:25 -0500

>The British auto maker, Rover, has a two-seater convertible which is
>supposed to be competition for the Mazda Miata.  In a recent published
>interview, the Chairman of Rover, Wolfgang Reitzle, (he came from BMW after
>BMW purchased Rover) stated how unimpressed he is with the MGF:
>
>     "I was at Rover soon after we (BMW) purchased the company and they were
>anxious to show me a special project they were working on.  It was the MGF.
> The first time I saw the car  I knew we had a problem.  It's not, in my
>opinion, a very good car and it's not what they should be spending their
>money on at the moment.  My first reaction was to tell them to kill it."
>
>He further went on to explain that the car was produced in order to keep the
>workers at Rover happy.
>
>That sums up the difference between the Miata and the MGF:  The Miata is
>built to make the customer happy; the MGF is built to make the Rover
>employees happy.
>
>Jim Flynn
>flynnj@baymont.com
>
>The above quote was lifted directly (and without permission) from Roundel,
>the magazine of the BMW Car Club of America, February, 1996; page 42.


Wot a crock. If BMW bought Mazda they would have said the exact same thing.
"Kill the Miata, its not a very good car, in my opinion ". What an
imbarassing quote. I feel sorry for the workers at Rover to have such an
owner as BMW. Obviously the MGF must really kick some Z3 butt for them to
be that worried. Nuff said.

Dave
95 Red

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