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[Jake Blues]

A reply to my lovely lady in response to a request for information.....
Confused??

Dear TC
Thank you for your email to MINI Customer Information.
Please accept our sincere apologies that we no longer have any jurisdiction over the Classic MINI and are therefore sadly unable to advise you further.
We can confirm that all rights to the Classic Mini are held by MG Rover and would advise that should you wish to contact them, you have various options as shown below:
Rover Hotline 08457 186 186

For general enquiries, please call their customer hotline.
Customer Helpdesk 0845 456 0301
If you have any issues you have not been able to resolve with your dealer, please call their Customer Helpdesk.
MGR Direct Used Sales 0121 482 5961.
For any enquiries regarding MG Rover Direct used cars. Alternatively, contact them at the following address:
MG Rover Contact Centre
General Office Block
PO Box 41
Longbridge
Birmingham
B31 2TB
We trust this will be helpful to you, and are sorry that we could assist you directly on this occasion.
Yours sincerely
MINI UK
Tim Sharpe
Product Information Advisor
Ellesfield Avenue
Bracknell RG12 8TA
Tel: 0800 083 6464
Fax: 0870 5050 206
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.MINI.co.uk

[Jammy]

They want you to write to a building thats been pulled down?!

[Amy]

What the......


How do they justify their behaviour in recent years and months, towards Classic Mini suppliers etc. if they have no jurisdiction over the Classic Mini???


Who owns MG Rover now anyway?

[minibeefy]

il own MINI if no one else wants to lol

[RobJaxon]

MG Rover does exist doesn't it. It's owned by a foreign guy, they only produce custom cars or something now. They don';t do production cars. It was Rover that got pulled down.

[Jake Blues]

Who owns MG Rover now anyway?

Nanjing...part of the Shanghai Automotive Company as far as I can tell....Rover was sold to the Phoenix Group for a tenner...

[mini93]

well that wasnt exactly what i was expecting

i dont think it would make much difference but what was the initial question about? new classic mini braned product? im sure if you mention that they might change there mind!

[Amy]

Who owns MG Rover now anyway?

Nanjing...part of the Shanghai Automotive Company as far as I can tell....Rover was sold to the Phoenix Group for a tenner...

Thought so.... I can't keep track of who owns which car company these days!

[Jake Blues]

what was the initial question about?

Trying to find the spec sheet for a 95 Cooper S......thread in Mini Chat.....

[Mini_Magic]

Rover was sold to the Phoenix Group for a tenner...

In May 2000.

Rover officially stopped producing cars on 8th April 2005. The brand is currently owned by Ford.

[Jake Blues]

LINK
Who owns Rover marque; Who owns the Rover brand and the intellectual property rights? Manufacturing Editor John Revill investigates.(News)
From: The Birmingham Post (England) Date: April 26, 2005 | Copyright information COPYRIGHT 2005 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.

Byline: John Revill

The administrators of MG Rover must be scratching their heads.

When BMW sold the business to MG Rover for pounds 10 it included a licence to use the registered trademark Rover on cars. MG Rover claims that last year they sold all the intellectual property rights to the Rover 75 and 25 to Shanghai Automotive for pounds 67 million.

Shanghai Automotive appears to be claiming that it can build these cars under the Rover marque, but that would be unusual in trademark licence terms, according to Neil Maybury.

Mr Maybury, principal at intellectual ...

[biggav]

Apparently it's a right Cluster, the chinese bought the rights to the silouhette's and names of some cars, not others and failed to purchase intellectual property rights on any of it


http://forums.mg-rov...ad.php?t=117662

[Mini_Magic]

Apparently it's a right Cluster, the chinese bought the rights to the silouhette's and names of some cars, not others and failed to purchase intellectual property rights on any of it

Which is why the new cars will be now under the brand name Roewe, the Rover name going to Ford due to the connection with Land Rover.

MG of course going to Nanjing, as said above.

[redhotmini]

i THINK British Motor Heritage (BMH) own the Mini name, or they have the rights to use the Mini winged badge anyway. i may be wrong though.

[Mini_Magic]

BMW have owned the Mini name and all other associated names and logos since 1994.

BMH just have the licence to produce panels and shells for the Mini.

I believe there was a period where BMH was owned by BMW, they are now independant.

Edited by Mini_Magic, 03 April 2008 - 08:29 PM.