'They think it's all Rover ...': And it could be soon ... Rover's likely takeover by a Shanghai firm might make the updated 45 2.0 TD its final saloon

摘要

It's great to be British. I know, that's not exactly a fashionable sentiment these days and is normally and hastily followed by multi-ethnic qualification and, of course, simultaneous translation into several languages. We used to rule the world, your know. We invented steel, steam, span and seismometers, not to mention sewing machines, submarines and shrapnel. We had a car industry upon which the sun never set and, sitting like a jewel in its crown, we had rover.