CorsAsh
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Just heard on the news that the Russian businessboy has finally pulled the plug. Will be outsourcing now, in other words building them abroad.
Been coming for a while but still a shame, only Noble, maybe Caterham/Westfield producing any decent amount of British cars in Britain now 
[Edited on 18-10-2006 by CorsAsh]
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Corsa_Sri_93
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6062084.stm
Shame really but if it turns out to be beneficial in how well built and reliable TVR's are then it'll be worth it.
Aston Martin is for sale again too isn't it. Hopefully the Germans will buy it.
[Edited on 18-10-2006 by Corsa_Sri_93]
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ed
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The trouble with England is it's just so English. You can't do anything in this country without having to pay people too much for what they do or hassle people to actually do stuff. We cannot manfacture stuff in this country anymore.
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CorsAsh
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Sadly true there ed.
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Jules
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I paid a bunch of Eastern Bloc people £5 to clean my car whilst I went shopping at Tescos and they did one hell of a job - what I'm getting at is there are cheap alternatives to using British labour and it's no longer as shoddy as it used to be.
Obviously as Brits we still make the best stuff to the highest quality possible, but we're not the dominant workforce we used to be 
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Cosmo
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I thought one of the main selling points behind TVR was that its British built, they'll be losing alot of the hardcore TVR fanatics with that move.
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jr
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quote:
Originally posted by Jules
I paid a bunch of Eastern Bloc people £5 to clean my car whilst I went shopping at Tescos and they did one hell of a job
we did this with ian in northampton and were amazed, they went well over the top when ian showed them the extra £2 he was gonna spend
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Ojc
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Its a shame, but as per usual to be expected.
I see the Eastern Bloc blokes cleaning cars every morning, there are 5 or 6 of them going over the car with a chamios leather, they do work really hard and take pride in there work.
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topshot_2k
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i wouldn't give them work.
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Dave A
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why?
at the company I used to work they employed 10 joiners from Poland. they were first there in the morning, last to leave at night and their work was exellent. while the english workforce spent 3 hours at a trade union meeting complaining about their wages they stayed at their workstations and completed the jobs they are paid to do with no complaints whatsoever.
I own a company and if I had a choice between an english mechanic that took the piss and complained all the time and worked at a slow speed or another mechanic that was on time, worked hard and just did the job they were paid for and took pride in it it wouldnt matter if they were african, chinese or mexican, I would employ the latter.
Its a fact that most of the economic migrants that move here to work will work harder than the average english people doing the same job. most of the work is laborious stuff like car washing and construction labour.
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Ojc
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I agree with Dave, a company is there to make money, and money alone.
Although I feel there shouldn't be any immigrants to start with though 
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gavin18787
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i hope they keep going some where as i do love their cars 
wont be quite the same when they are not british though 
Drives supercharged Tec with torque 
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