Rover Car Marque
- Rover (marque), a British marque consisting of cars and (earlier) motorcycles. The brand first appeared in 1885 and dissolved in 2005. It was owned by several companies:
- Rover Company (1885–1967), a British bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturing company, absorbed into Leyland Motor Corporation in 1967
- British Leyland (1968–1986), successor of Leyland Motor Corporation, owned lots of marques; one of which was Rover
- Austin Rover Group (1982–1989), mass-market subsidiary of Leyland
- Rover Group (1986–2000), the new name given to Leyland in 1986 after the company divested its other divisions, later sold to BMW
- MG Rover Group (2000–2005), a company formed in 2000 when BMW sold most of the Rover Group to the Phoenix Consortium
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Famous quotes containing the words rover and/or car:
“One dreadful sound could the Rover hear,
A sound as if, with the Inchcape Bell,
The Devil below was ringing his knell.”
—Robert Southey (1774–1843)
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—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)