you're welcome (re: Bond)

[Lawrence C Leung]

AFAIK, Marcos, Jensen, TVR ----- R.I.P.

AC - at least partially owned by - Ford (go figure). 

Don't know about the others. Basically seems almost like reverse war
dividends, US owns most of 1/2 the British car industry, Germany the
other. 

However, here's some British car makers that aren't owned by anyone else:

McLaren

Lola

And, in their respective fields, they're doing rather well too. 

LL - NY

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 01:23:14 +0100 Per Lindgren <lindgre at online.no>
writes:
>
>
>Rave Racer 2000 wrote:
>
>>         What though?  Aston Martin belongs to FROD.  Rover isn't
>> Sophisticated enough.  Jaguar belongs to FROD.  There isn't much 
>British
>> left in the British.
>
>But the few British cars that are still British are nice :-) Names 
>like Morgan,
>Bristol, Jensen, Marcos, TVR and AC (they still make the Cobra) come 
>to mind.
>None of these are owned by any big car company (yet) AFAIK, please 
>correct me if
>I'm wrong, I need to know then.
>
>All of the above mentioned companies make very beautiful sports cars, 
>with
>terrific design. The problem is that they can not afford to sponsor 
>the film
>company with enough cars and material, and probably dont need to 
>either.
>