LOL you missed the M5

w/o digging out diesel receipts 565ml off £56 must be 50 mpg + ?

m's are beemers, quick audis are prefixed rs

Extra urban its booked as 63 mpg but i think that is almost imposable,

I don't care for either. When I retire I'm getting one of these:

With a Tow bar?

friend & his dad where in old rovers I recall a turd brown P6...

3.5 ltre, leather, walnut dash, Pure class. What went wrong with Rover?

British management

British worker?

Management had no say in how the plants were run?

Toyota, Nissan and Honda don't seem to have a problem with their workforce.

Yes they do but not to the extent of the old militant plant (locations). The japs exspect a work indoctrination ethic and have stayed clear of certain areas. The early british design and manufacture was OK later build quality was poo.  I remember being told that a ford buit in Germany was different to a ford built in the UK. Its all out now with the FOI act just how poo the UK car (and other industries) were mis managed. Most of the blame said that management was dictated to from the shop floor.
The UK are overpaid and underworked   

Not a jaundiced generalisation then.

problem is bigger than Rover, or car industry its UK Plc which is knackered....

**Adjusts tin foil hat** spins the wheel of half baked ideas......... I reckon zionist conspiracy !

Along the same lines - i addressed a customer issue with a statement yesterday. My manager was heard to mutter on reading said statement "another jb-eye vagism"