When Rover Met BMW - Episode 3: A Job for Life

[@matthewgodwin3050]

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.

[@mfitzy100]

5 breaks in ten hours? Sounds good to me

[@SentinelSays]

Shame they are normally around 10 min breaks. I speak from experience there 😅

[@davarosmith1334]

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!

[@edword7195]

BMW also took the Rover name

[@MSJChem]

Can you blame them? BMW were losing 25 million pounds a day with Rover. The hard truth is that Rover made cars that nobody wanted to buy, not even the British public. BMW left Rover with one billion pounds which they burned through in five years and then they went bankrupt. The real crime is the Pheonix Four who left the company with a combined 40 million pounds. They were the only real winners.

[@edword7195]

No can't blame, the government did not support car industry like the German, French Japanese or American. The government pretended it did not support state aid but as we have seen time and time again it does just not industry ,it just our government chose the winner to be the City rather than industry. Which may have seemed sensible at the time , in hindsight not so much

[@mfitzy100]

That’s business I’m afraid. BMW did try but the strategy was completely misguided. The low volume 75 shouldn’t have been a priority for replacement and was the wrong car completely for the market at the time

[@MSJChem]

@@edword7195 Well they bailed out British Leyland for long enough and saw that it was a colossal waste of taxpayers money.

[@lukedavis436]

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

[@mfitzy100]

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

[@hamster639]

Well systems 1 and 2 were built for the metro and mini so were ancient. System 3 which isn't shown in this video was far more modern, a lot of Honda input as it built both honda and rover models at 60 an hour.

[@bobhooper3982]

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

[@DIMASTAMPOLHDHS]

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