John Towers got his wish in the end. Buy Rover/MG and milk all the funds for his and his buddies golden parachute. Also at 21:42 With 'peace and love' go eff yourself. You are egotistical as shit my guy. You got your grubby mitts on it and ruined what last chance the 2 marks could of had.

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When Quentin Wilson was one of us.

Bro this is the most abandoned car that i have ever, seen poor Citroen.

19:18

Tedious obsession with Britishness that even James May slagged off when the 75 came out. I wish Rover was still going but stuff like that makes you question if they deserved it after all.

Jeremy's hair 😅

I think I caught the list of OG Top Gear presenters? I remember Quentin Wilson's coverage of the 200 launch

Jesus. I honestly thought this was a spoof!! I used to think Rover died because of poor investment etc etc now I’m sure it was the workers. school boy jokers that seemed to have forgotten they were at work not in the playground!!!

Rover was dead long before BMW rocked up - they killed the whole lot in the seventies through a chronic lack of investment

12:41 that didn’t sound good want he said 😮🤣

Brilliant documentary. This series should be watched by all students of business to learn how not to run a car company. The attitude of the British Rover workers in Bavaria -- immaturely laughing and joking about, there to get pissed and have a good time and not participate, while the bemused German BMW workers were conscientiously problem-solving -- speaks volumes about the very disparate mindsets. It's a great shame, as Rover was in a good position in 1995 with the new, well-received Rover 200 and 400 models, the 600 selling well and a new MGF. Within a decade, they'd be no more.

My those are large beers for breakfast😊

Rover never had a chance. There cars are of no comparison to BMW in quality or engineering. Rover went bust for a reason. Nobody wanted to buy there cars

John Towers, what a tit

They should have used the Rover name on the 600 and 800 series cars, but resurected the Austin name on the 200 and kept it on the Metro, thus aiming the right cars at the right market sector.... perhaps....

BMW wanted the MINI Brand wasnt really interested in Rover , sad but true .. towers was right they would have been better staying with honda

I can at least thank BMW for using their much more reliable engines in the P38 making it... Less unreliable

That Asian guy would do my fcukin head in working alongside him

And to think people can just use a drone now

this shows over and over, just how incapable "management" was. Always aiming low, never driven by the engineer but by the accountant. Ever seen an accountant drive a Trabant? No they drive BMW's says it all, and is proof of very very poor management. HOW MANY OF THE 'MANAGEMENT' HAD A DEGREE IN ENGINEERING AND DESIGN? NONE.

This shows everything that was wrong with rover. The 200 and 400 were good cars but they focused everything on fuddy duddy ‘Britishness’ rather than it being a good car. The 200vi should have been more edgy and more of the direction they went it. Keep the wood if u need to but bigger wheels and a bit more racey and promote it as that not as a lounge chair!

Arranca al toque fijo

BMW is cack

So let me get this right, Rover had two long term image problems: flaky cars and an "Old person" image. So they solved this problem by passing over the ad that highlighted the improved static qualities of the 200 and which made no assumptions about what kind of person a Rover 200 driver should be, in favour of one starring a young fogey who's set in his ways. Genius! What could possibly go wrong...

The attitude of the English workers comes across awful- “we like what we like and we aren’t going to change or try anything new..”. As for “pudding” that’s an English thing, everyone else calls it’s dessert. No one foreign would know what they meant but they’re so unself-aware they couldn’t see this

Why would you offer up German food in England like this? Utterly ridiculous. If I was in a different country I want to try the local cuisine

5 breaks in ten hours? Sounds good to me

I’m beginning to see why rover cars had so many quality issues. That line operation looks terrible

4:25 - Style-conscious press...

They spent too much time worrying about Britishness and not enough producing the best damn thing that could be made for the money.

Absolute amateur hour in fact embarrassing no wonder they failed.

Bavarian Motor Works...how can they get the intro so wrong 😢

Remember this episode secret testing the Land Rover Freelander

BMW ripped Rover off, They got the new Mini and know-how of the Land Rover for there own 4 X 4. They also took the Rover 25 replacement car and made the new 1 series! The phoenix 4 put the final nail in the coffin, those 4 bastard's have a lot to answer for!

Team leaders criticising keen new employees for working too quickly perfectly epitomises what finally brought Rover Group to its knees. We should and could have done so much better. Pity really. And I speak as an ex Rover Group employee, although I worked in sales rather than production.

If someone want to know why rover failed - this shows it in all its glory. Smug and condescending of their customers and competitors with a healthy dose of jokes at the Italians expense.

BMW plundered Rover , taking the new Mini and taking all the know how to make a decent 4x4 from the land rover. It's like eating all the decent flavour crisps and leaving a load of ready salted in the bag and saying here man help your self to a bag of crisps!

Bmw kept the mini land-rover ranger rover. Gave the rest away to 4 muppets that destroyed mg rover and life's . Mclaren put bid in to save rover in 2000. he never got the company . it was given to there labour buddies that knew nothing about cars or business. I remember Quainton wilson said the workers had extra 5 years of work. people should be thankfull. Another man that help destroy rover with the top gear fools

1:57 The briefest of glimpse of the back end of the R40/Rover 75....???

Is that final big workshop Longbridge or Gaydon...???

What Britain did best....Producing people (in this case motoring journalists...) who thought they were so clever in their smugness of being overly-critical & slagging off the products of our own industries & poor old MG Rover...Nowhere else in the world did or does this happen...a truly British disease that even Clarkson made a career out of......🙄

No wonder Rover went under they took advertising advice from a man in a Green corduroy suit.

Rover you put the key in ignition it doesn’t turn over

Not sacked....No. certainly not.

What a rubbish ad!

Pity they didn't include a test centre for head gaskets.

They wonder why Rover group failed. Bunch of amateurs fannying about.

And if you are then confronted with, for example, those 3 baboons from Topgear who are making fun of everything, then such an introduction has failed in advance.

"Can't park there mate!"