Speaking to the Tonight Programme with Trevor Macdonald on ITV1, Stevens said he believed senior management were naive in the way they conducted negotiations with Chinese motor industry giants Shanghai Automotive in the failed attempt to cut a deal that could have saved the company.
They weren't going to take on the factory here, continue production just as it was and send cheap seat frames from China or something to cut the cost.
The Chinese had certainly wanted to build Rover 75s in China, he said. Some links in this article may be affiliate links. If you click on them we may earn a small commission. That helps us fund This Is Money, and keep it free to use. We do not write articles to promote products. We do not allow any commercial relationship to affect our editorial independence. How we can help Contact us. We'd like a heat pump but our house has a combi boiler, would we need a hot water cylinder and new radiators?
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Subscribe Now. Subscribe now. The Business Hub Newsletter. Sign Up. Visit the Budget Hub. Sign up. Approximately MG-Rover staff have a temporary reprise from redundancy, they will be retained to finish off part built cars and to eventually mothball Longbridge.
Unless some sort of deal can be found in the meantime. This has yet to be confirmed. They cited the fact that MG-Rover are in administration as the final stumbling block.
Local MP's are hoping that some manufacturing probably only MG can continue at the site. That has yet to be confirmed. To find out more call In addition there a many smaller parts suppliers and Rover breakers who will be an invaluable source of parts in the weeks and months to come. The Rover Owners Club is currently compiling a list of all know MG Rover specialists, which we hope will provide invaluable to owners.
The directory will cover new and secondhand parts, warranty providers, insurance, breakdown cover and the like. This means that about , Rover owners who have bought cars in the past two years will have to pay for any problems with their vehicles or look for another warran ty provider. Rob Hunt, of the MG Rover administrator team, said all dealers had been contacted to explain the situation. Mr Hunt said: "A review of the company's warranty arrangements has been undertaken and has concluded that warranties continue in the first instance to be a matter between individual dealers and their customers.
However, following our appointment as joint administrators on April 8, the company no longer has sufficient funds to reimburse warranties. Most dealers will be able to advise customers on how they could obtain this cover. Click on a link on the left of this page.
Workers are now getting used to using the robots and readying themselves for production. Click on a link at the top of this page. Around workers are due to be employed at the factory to make the two-seater MGF sports car, new owner Nanjing Automobiles announced.
But that is a fraction of the 6, who lost their jobs when MG Rover went out of business last year. Around 80 people are currently working at the plant and more will be recruited when the business develops.
The workers will assemble the MG TF, with production due to start early next year. The annual production capacity will be 15, and the cars will be sold in the UK and Europe, although they may be exported to other parts of the world. Cars will be assembled from kits of components, supplied from Nanjing's factory in China, which is currently being built.
Other Rover models will be built in China and elsewhere, including the US. Chinese manufacturer Nanjing Automotive bought the collapsed British carmaker almost a year ago to the day. It indicated at the time that up to 2, jobs could be created at Longbridge through a design, engineering and manufacturing facility. Earlier this year Nanjing agreed a year lease at the Birmingham factory with site owners St Modwen.
Euronews MG Rover cars are to be built not just at the Longbridge plant in central England and in China but also at a newly constructed factory in the United States. Longbridge is lined up to make convertible MG sports cars while the US operation, which is to be in Oaklahoma will produce a coupe sports car. US production is set to begin in two years time. The MG name and equipment to build MG Rover vehicles were bought by the Chinese after the last independent British car manufacturer collapsed last year in the face of plummeting sales.
The company had not produced a new model since British trade unions said they had not been told beforehand about the new US factory and they now want talks with Nanjing about the effect this will have on the number of jobs at Longbridge.
Nanjing has also said it plans to make three different saloon car models at its facilities in China. Nanjing had been close to winning the bidding war a week ago, but SAIC then came back with another offer, and Mr James put in his offers this week.
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