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:
“Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)
“The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old- fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.”
—J.G. (James Graham)