| | BMW Sheds Rover Car Brand - Daily Auto Insider - Car and Driver August 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | BMW said it will sell the Rover brand for an undisclosed sum to an unidentified buyer, The Associated Press reported. |
 | | Ford bought Rover's Land Rover SUV business from BMW in 2000, and acquired first refusal rights for the Rover name as part of the deal. |
 | | Although a BMW source did not reveal who the potential buyer might be, Dow Jones Newswires reported last week that China's Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, or SAIC, intended to pay about 11 million British pounds ($20.8 million) for the Rover brand, the AP story said. |
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