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BMW and Rover

16 January 1994

ROVER

Rover Manufacturing Director Alan Curtis and a collegue fly in great secrecy to Munich to provide the information it needed in order to table a bid for the Rover Group. The idea is to use BMW as a bargaining chip in dealings with Honda.

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