Roewe N1 Concept set for Shanghai Unveiling

Sleek styling and aggressive curves

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Bristol411S3

You meant the MG6 Concept -- MG Rover died several years ago and SAIC/NAC has no rights to the Rover name, hence them inventing Roewe. I think the Rover name is owned by Ford, although there is a chane it was sold to Tata with JLR.

April 13, 2009 9:02 am

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ocean_drift

Nah...Rover Name is still owned by BMW I guess...They retained the brand name after it was sold to Ford. ..but its quite confusing..here you can find some info! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5358590.stm

April 13, 2009 9:46 am

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Bristol411S3

That's not my recollection. I remember BMW has on it for a while and then Ford bought it to stop anyone else getting their hands on it and confusing the Land Rover brand. That's why I guessed it may be with Tata now.

April 13, 2009 10:17 am

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Renegade

Hmm, If BMW retained, it means that Rover never been to Ford and then at Tata, and now they should have a problem selling it to Rowe, because I doubt that BMW plans to revive Rover.Like they won't revive Triumph. Still it's good to see MG back on the role, even it's chinese.

April 13, 2009 11:30 am

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Michael

From the sketches the car looks like a copy-paste of Passat CC. Nothing new for the Chinese automakers. But let's wait and see the real car...

April 13, 2009 10:05 am

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N20_Purge

Well there is a postive side... at least it's not one of them 'copy & paste with a little editing' chinese designs.

April 13, 2009 10:58 am

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ghent2008

well what can i say? this looks much better than what the Indians can put out.

April 13, 2009 6:21 pm

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ocean_drift

Tata does not have anything to do with Rover. @Ghent, most of the Indian made cars sold abroad are not designed in India, Tata gets it done in Italy, so are Chinese. Secondly you must be relating Nano to all the cars done in India, for your information even Nano was done in Italy. Tata will let Land Rovers and Jaguars do their own things, it so happens that they just own them. The sketches you see over here must have been done in some not so well known design studio in Turin, even though it resembles many cars, its not a bad job after all.

April 14, 2009 10:26 am

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khan

As far as I remember, NAC has the right to use the MG brand, while SAIC has the rights to use Rover's existing designs and future concept ideas, together with any resources that the Rover can offer, except the name, that's why they call it Roewe.

April 14, 2009 11:58 am

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