When Rover Met BMW - Episode 4: Bonding

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  • Episode 4/5: Bonding (26 November 1996)
    "When Rover Met BMW is a 5-part documentary series produced by the BBC in 1996. German motor company BMW had bought Rover in 1994 and the series follows the sometimes fraught relationship between the two."
    "Episode 4 reports on the "bonding" projects between BMW and Rover wherein German workers go and shadow their counterparts in England and vice versa."
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  • @JonathanHealy-o7k
    @JonathanHealy-o7k 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Brilliant documentary. This series should be watched by all students of business to learn how not to run a car company. The attitude of the British Rover workers in Bavaria -- immaturely laughing and joking about, there to get pissed and have a good time and not participate, while the bemused German BMW workers were conscientiously problem-solving -- speaks volumes about the very disparate mindsets. It's a great shame, as Rover was in a good position in 1995 with the new, well-received Rover 200 and 400 models, the 600 selling well and a new MGF. Within a decade, they'd be no more.

  • @JDMNINJA851
    @JDMNINJA851 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This episode, really shows why Rover is gone and BMW is BMW.

  • @KarlHamilton
    @KarlHamilton ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Those Rover engineers were so out of their depth. So sad.

  • @johnchristmas7522
    @johnchristmas7522 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    this shows over and over, just how incapable "management" was. Always aiming low, never driven by the engineer but by the accountant. Ever seen an accountant drive a Trabant? No they drive BMW's says it all, and is proof of very very poor management. HOW MANY OF THE 'MANAGEMENT' HAD A DEGREE IN ENGINEERING AND DESIGN? NONE.

  • @davarosmith1334
    @davarosmith1334 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    BMW ripped Rover off, They got the new Mini and know-how of the Land Rover for there own 4 X 4. They also took the Rover 25 replacement car and made the new 1 series! The phoenix 4 put the final nail in the coffin, those 4 bastard's have a lot to answer for!

    • @mfitzy100
      @mfitzy100 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not really, that’s business. They owned the company so called the shots

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep all the X drive tech aswell as early m5s were rubbish , they have nothing to gloat about

    • @johnchristmas7522
      @johnchristmas7522 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The point here is, WHY DIDN'T ROVER MANAGEMENT SEE THE SAME AS BMW?????????

  • @joellamoureux7914
    @joellamoureux7914 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My those are large beers for breakfast😊

  • @scottgiam6348
    @scottgiam6348 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    BMW wanted the MINI Brand wasnt really interested in Rover , sad but true .. towers was right they would have been better staying with honda

    • @victortaveira8271
      @victortaveira8271 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Honda didn’t want Rover too. It’s Towers and alike that killed Rover since 70’s.

  • @golfy808
    @golfy808 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bavarian Motor Works...how can they get the intro so wrong 😢

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 ปีที่แล้ว

      Like the cars wrong

  • @yuglesstube
    @yuglesstube ปีที่แล้ว

    Not sacked....No. certainly not.

  • @mfitzy100
    @mfitzy100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The attitude of the English workers comes across awful- “we like what we like and we aren’t going to change or try anything new..”.
    As for “pudding” that’s an English thing, everyone else calls it’s dessert. No one foreign would know what they meant but they’re so unself-aware they couldn’t see this