Cool marques yes, but good companies? Yes the BL clusterfuck didn't help but what people tend to forget is the oil shock of the seventies and the major recession. The Government had to intercede (just like with GM) or the entire company would've gone bust along with all those cool marques. Further if BL hadn't been…

But that's the point. Great car companies keep going and are still here. However the British automative industry is littered with poor companies that made one or two great cars. There are only one or two exceptiosn where a great car company that made great cars disappeared, TVR being one of them. The author of this…

BL has never been seen as a great brand. So who gives a toss 30 years later? Also what does GM in it's heydey have to do with anything? It still went bust when Ford didn't. So how about the epically incompetent management at GM?

They still went bust 'organically' or not. And are you really going to lecture me on government intervention when 26% of GM is still owned by the US Government?

What like GM? Amalgamation of multiple brands? Too large to fully repair?

Uh not quite - they are from the Appendices of the Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson / New Line don't have the rights to any material from The Silmarillion.

We've kept our great brands - AM, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Jaguar, Land Rover, Caterham, Lotus, etc, etc. The only one on the list any Brit would consider 'great' would be TVR.

Bravo!

Wait…. Arrow is genuinely good? When did that happen? I think it’s like a car wreck, you can’t quite look away. Another commenter put it best – Oliver is clearly barking mad and that’s the only reason to tune in – to see what the fuckery he’s up to this week. But genuinely good? I think it’s a couple of (small)…

No argument but the article said the British car industry is decimated which is quite frankly, bollocks. And saying that the British car industry screwed up when GM & Chrysler went into liquidation and four years later still have huge chucks of their stock owned by the US Govt and Ford needed loan guarantees is a bit…

Uh... maybe not the actual Prince Phillip

Yeah the British car industry is so shit that over a million cars were made here this year, over two million engines and eight formula one teams are based here.

Tu-whit-tu-gurgle-gloop-gloop goes the Squidowl

Thank God you can't put an entire plan for world domination in 140 characters.

So damn beautiful

How about Zeus Bigalow Olympian Gigolo?

Pie of course!

Having done business with Tesco, that's one I can actually believe.

So in the last bit did they knock each other out?

Yeah. It's all fun and games until someone lays an egg.