More worrying is, that the guy probably didnt have a hook for an arm when he started work on the project!!!!!!

Actually its obviously a mis understood Clone of a Reliant Kitten.

The Reliant Robin was the three wheeler that looked suprisingly like this umm... "vehicle"... and was most famoous for staring in BBC Comedy Series Only Fools and Horses...

The Kitten was a four wheel version of the robin...

I guess someone in China was asked to clone (aka ripp off) the Kitten and misunderstood where to stick the fourth wheel!!!!

For US readers there ar plenty of images on google for Reliant Robin and Reliant Kitten.

Not trying to burst your ballon but a quick reverse lookup of the powertogether.com domain shows the following admin address

Philip Colebrook
Admin Address........ Flat 13, Inner City House
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ London
Admin Address........ SE14 6QP
Admin Address........ -
Admin Address........ GREAT BRITAIN (UK)
Admin Email.......... **********@gmail.com
Admin Phone.......... 44.2086915308
Admin Fax............

Now call me a sceptic but cant see Microsoft using a gmail account to register the domain nor can I see them using an address in New Cross London....

But I hope to stand corrected!!!!!

DL sorry to argue but umm... no not a lot of Honda in there it was designed and released during the BMW ownership of Rover and was brand new from the ground up albeit with lots of BMW sourced parts (to help lower BMW's components costs trhough volume) and Pete nice Chrysler 300 lights... so the guys in Longbridge got a crystal ball in 1998 looked five years into the future and ripped off the chrysler head lights then did they??? As for audi well the car you see is identical to the car that we had/we refacing at Longbridge and the grille was actually released a couple of months before audi... The car you see is one of the chief reasons MGR fell.. during the last few months we spent all of the scarce money we did have developing products for our new chinese masters... and ended up with nothing left in the pot to defend ourselves or help market product when they pulled out.

n.b. the car is if I remember rightly half way between the standard 75 and the 75 limo that we had been selling in Europe since about 200.... The two cars were about 8 inches apart in length but in typical godilocks style the first one was to small and the second to large and so we had to design a 3rd length for the chinese... in the same way that they wanted a 2 seater sports car but not he TF (then outselling every other 2 seat softtopper in its sector put together!!)

So what we have is a great british car company struggling to survive and eventually brought down by two chinese companies jackalling at the assets until the company went into administration and then picking up the remains for next to nothing...

one p.s. 18 months after MGR went into administration and was sold "entirely" to the Chinese, how come the owners of MGR still have offices at Longbridge and wander into work every week!!!

Thanks from one of your "um European Weekend readers"!!!!

Still think its got a long way to go to beat off competition from the TomTom 910

Limited success....

Well it racked up more international and national awards than any other model ever produced (including an italian automotive journalist association award for the most beautiful car every made!!) and pretty much kept the company going for 5 years...

Its success in My honest opinon was only limited by the UK publics distrust of Longbridge....

At the various motorshows and events I attended on behalf of MG Rover, the reaction was always "wow I didnt realise they were actually that good!"...

That said will the Chinese built cars be to the same high build quality... I'd expect not!

Note to self.. obviously I am mistaken in my belief that this is exactly the kind of action I was sponsoring while working at MG Rover for the three years upto last April!!!

Foolish me!!!!!