Caterham/Morgan, Who cares. Rolls, German, Bentley, German. ,JLR, Indian. Mini, German. Lotus, Chinese... England "had" these brands.. now England has "what domestically owned car brands"?.. hell.. even scalectric isn't British anymore. Lol
@@theopinionatedbystander That’s like saying that Burger King is Brazilian, not American, because it’s wholly owned by a Brazilian consortium (which it is) and that Budweiser is Belgian and not American either, for the same reason - because it’s owned by the Belgians. You could also add that Paris Saint-Germain is a Qatari soccer team, because its owners are Qatari. And if I told you that the high-end fashion brand Valentino is Qatari too (the Qataris do own it), would you then say you’re surprised it’s Qatari because you didn’t know that Arabs were good at designing high-end sexy underwear and swimwear for women? What happens when Burger King is sold by the Brazilians to the Indians - it suddenly goes from Brazilian to becoming an Indian product? Or now that the US has opened up foreign ownership of their sports franchises, will the Dallas Cowboys become a Saudi Arabian team? Is Volvo also a Chinese brand? - because they do own it - and since Audi owns Lamborghini it must be a German brand too. You are conflating “brand” with ownership. Conclusion? You might say, “no, I don’t buy the argument”, then fine, but If you’re going to sh*t on a country for a particular reason, then don’t forget to sh*t on ALL countries - including the USA, Sweden, France and Italy whose brands I’ve exampled above - for that same particular reason.
@@theopinionatedbystander “Heard of a place called Italy?”. I listed 12 exotic brands for the UK, so let’s see Italy: Ferrari Lamborghini Pagani Maserati Nope, that’s only 4. Like I said, “No other country has AS MANY…”
@@darkmatter6714 mini, is not “exotic”, caterham is a kit car manufacturer, not exotic, JLR,? Jaguar was exotic, now makes an EV suv’s, not exotic, ladrover is mostly farm equipment except high end range rovers which are tanks in leather clad, not exotic. Morgan, exotic?, a 100 years ago maybe, now just an MG Magnette mk1 without the style, “old doesn’t mean exotic”. Bentley, Volkswagens phaeton with a skin job, and Rolls, BMWs 7 series with a skin job. . The only “exotic” is Aston Martin, and it’s now Mercedes. (Can you tell I miss when these were actually British car companies). .. you would be closer if you said “premium”, but since only one of these is actually a “British “OWNED” brand. Your story still falls short.. try a tagline. “Great British brands that USED to be British.
@darkmatte6714 MG are now wholly Chinese, The MG Marque died as a separate vehicle manufacturer back in the 70's, there were some rebadged Rovers in the late 90' early 2000's. All the new MG's are utterly Chinese nothing British about them as far as I know (which may of course be completely wrong 😅)
No one has as much success at the very highest end than the Brits: McLaren, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Range Rover. And before you say it, yes, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche - if you’re high income middle class the German brands are what you would drive but if you’re a billionaire living in Monaco, those German brands are what your staff would drive.
So. British.. MG=chinese… Aston Martin=Mercedes Germany.. Noble=nobody cares. For that price it should not look like a 300£ kit car.. so sad.. nothing British in the lot. German or Asia with a Union Jack camo…
That’s like saying Budweiser is Belgian and Burger King is Brazilian because a company in those countries bought them. All those cars are designed and engineered in the UK and it’s the brand that counts. Gucci is made in China but people don’t buy it because they’re made in China, they buy because the brand = Italian high fashion.
@@darkmatter6714 you have a reasonable argument. But.. not correct. The “profits of the brands go back to the parent company”. The majority of taxes are paid in the parent companies country,(not always, because of tax loopholes), but nearly always. As for the likes of MG, a great mark for sure, but “all parts, Chinese, all profits, Chinese, all intellectual property Chinese, and final assembly?. Yup China. So calling that a British company is laughable. It’s a SAIC with an MG badge. The fact its design was scribbled with crayons in Birmingham does not make it British. .. and the same is true with much of the British car industry. Ohh, and British industry as a whole. Most of this crap is German, Japanese, Chinese etc knock down kits with some job centre tards doing final assembly.
@@darkmatter6714 indeed. I will add, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Britain has some amazing workers, and they are high end workers, Britain’s is still one of the top bankers, insurers and gold deposits of the world, and if you only have so many “high end workers” you don’t have them build car parts.. etc.. you put them where they make the most money for the country, (somewhere around the Bank of Englands, business mile). Then you let the menial stuff be handled by the best menial labour in the world. Every car that sell produces an initial 30p on the pound, tax revenue, and it’s a gift that keeps on giving the Chancellor of the exchequer. And if it’s foreign owned and run it’s harder for the government to be destabilized by unions etc. and if some of these cars are British final ensembles the government gets a bit in import/export duty. So it’s not a complete loss. It’s just they are not “British” companies. So the profits from the car “build” go offshore. The marketing departments, advertising departments, etc, etc, etc, are mostly offshored. As a final point, Britain at the turn of the last century made 10 million bicycles a year, when it was an empire, but its balance of payment was never covered by manufacturing, in its history. Britains balance of payments has always been covered by Loyd’s of London and the money markets etc. Ok, I’m waffling. But my first car was an MG Magnette MK4, and it’s a love of mine, so calling any of these brands British now is insulting to its heritage, IMO..
Can car manufacturers please stop putting big horrible tablets we don’t need in our cars.
Oh, FFS, first car up, an electric one, not interested in electric, so off with this video .😊
Where's the Brit!!? I don't like this new guys voice.
BRING BACK THE BRIT!
BRING BACK THE BRIT!
7 reminds me of Spyker not Mclaren
You buy British cars when you want to show everybody how much money you have. you buy Japanese cars if you care about how much money you have
It’s a pity we can’t actually get a human to narrate this instead of roboman
Lol, how funny. Whether I narrate the videos muself or get a professional narrator, there is always someone who says it sounds like a robot
Get it right mg ain't British lotus Chinese owned pointless video where the British voice and who cares about electric yawn yawn yaen
That’s like saying Budweiser is Belgian and Burger King is Brazilian because a company in those countries bought them.
No other country has as many exotic car brands:
Caterham
Morgan
Rolls Royce
Bentley
Lotus
McLaren
Aston Martin
Mini
MG
Jaguar
GMA
Range Rover
Heard of a place called Italy?
Caterham/Morgan, Who cares.
Rolls, German, Bentley, German. ,JLR, Indian. Mini, German. Lotus, Chinese... England "had" these brands.. now England has "what domestically owned car brands"?.. hell.. even scalectric isn't British anymore. Lol
@@theopinionatedbystander
That’s like saying that Burger King is Brazilian, not American, because it’s wholly owned by a Brazilian consortium (which it is) and that Budweiser is Belgian and not American either, for the same reason - because it’s owned by the Belgians.
You could also add that Paris Saint-Germain is a Qatari soccer team, because its owners are Qatari. And if I told you that the high-end fashion brand Valentino is Qatari too (the Qataris do own it), would you then say you’re surprised it’s Qatari because you didn’t know that Arabs were good at designing high-end sexy underwear and swimwear for women?
What happens when Burger King is sold by the Brazilians to the Indians - it suddenly goes from Brazilian to becoming an Indian product? Or now that the US has opened up foreign ownership of their sports franchises, will the Dallas Cowboys become a Saudi Arabian team? Is Volvo also a Chinese brand? - because they do own it - and since Audi owns Lamborghini it must be a German brand too.
You are conflating “brand” with ownership.
Conclusion? You might say, “no, I don’t buy the argument”, then fine, but If you’re going to sh*t on a country for a particular reason, then don’t forget to sh*t on ALL countries - including the USA, Sweden, France and Italy whose brands I’ve exampled above - for that same particular reason.
@@theopinionatedbystander “Heard of a place called Italy?”.
I listed 12 exotic brands for the UK, so let’s see Italy:
Ferrari
Lamborghini
Pagani
Maserati
Nope, that’s only 4. Like I said, “No other country has AS MANY…”
@@darkmatter6714 mini, is not “exotic”, caterham is a kit car manufacturer, not exotic, JLR,? Jaguar was exotic, now makes an EV suv’s, not exotic, ladrover is mostly farm equipment except high end range rovers which are tanks in leather clad, not exotic. Morgan, exotic?, a 100 years ago maybe, now just an MG Magnette mk1 without the style, “old doesn’t mean exotic”. Bentley, Volkswagens phaeton with a skin job, and Rolls, BMWs 7 series with a skin job. . The only “exotic” is Aston Martin, and it’s now Mercedes. (Can you tell I miss when these were actually British car companies). .. you would be closer if you said “premium”, but since only one of these is actually a “British “OWNED” brand. Your story still falls short.. try a tagline. “Great British brands that USED to be British.
MG and Lotus are both Chinese. Some nice cars though.
Nothing made in Africa. 😂😂
That’s like saying Budweiser is Belgian and Burger King is Brazilian because a company in those countries bought them.
@darkmatte6714 MG are now wholly Chinese, The MG Marque died as a separate vehicle manufacturer back in the 70's, there were some rebadged Rovers in the late 90' early 2000's. All the new MG's are utterly Chinese nothing British about them as far as I know (which may of course be completely wrong 😅)
4 and 5 ok and the rest is rubbish.
All big failure's
No one has as much success at the very highest end than the Brits: McLaren, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Range Rover. And before you say it, yes, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche - if you’re high income middle class the German brands are what you would drive but if you’re a billionaire living in Monaco, those German brands are what your staff would drive.
Have they ever made a car that’s worth a S-t?
We leave the shit cars to you Yanks.
Not all of these cars are British actually. For example the MG is Chinese. Lotus also Chinese
Lotus may be Chinese owned, but the design and manufacture is still done in Britain.
Knob head.
That’s like saying Budweiser is Belgian and Burger King is Brazilian because a company in those countries bought them.
So. British.. MG=chinese… Aston Martin=Mercedes Germany.. Noble=nobody cares. For that price it should not look like a 300£ kit car.. so sad.. nothing British in the lot. German or Asia with a Union Jack camo…
That’s like saying Budweiser is Belgian and Burger King is Brazilian because a company in those countries bought them. All those cars are designed and engineered in the UK and it’s the brand that counts. Gucci is made in China but people don’t buy it because they’re made in China, they buy because the brand = Italian high fashion.
@@darkmatter6714 you have a reasonable argument. But.. not correct. The “profits of the brands go back to the parent company”. The majority of taxes are paid in the parent companies country,(not always, because of tax loopholes), but nearly always. As for the likes of MG, a great mark for sure, but “all parts, Chinese, all profits, Chinese, all intellectual property Chinese, and final assembly?. Yup China. So calling that a British company is laughable. It’s a SAIC with an MG badge. The fact its design was scribbled with crayons in Birmingham does not make it British. .. and the same is true with much of the British car industry. Ohh, and British industry as a whole. Most of this crap is German, Japanese, Chinese etc knock down kits with some job centre tards doing final assembly.
@@theopinionatedbystander Well on that criteria, I guess that makes Budweiser Belgian and Burger King Brazilian then.
@@darkmatter6714 indeed. I will add, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Britain has some amazing workers, and they are high end workers, Britain’s is still one of the top bankers, insurers and gold deposits of the world, and if you only have so many “high end workers” you don’t have them build car parts.. etc.. you put them where they make the most money for the country, (somewhere around the Bank of Englands, business mile). Then you let the menial stuff be handled by the best menial labour in the world. Every car that sell produces an initial 30p on the pound, tax revenue, and it’s a gift that keeps on giving the Chancellor of the exchequer. And if it’s foreign owned and run it’s harder for the government to be destabilized by unions etc. and if some of these cars are British final ensembles the government gets a bit in import/export duty. So it’s not a complete loss. It’s just they are not “British” companies. So the profits from the car “build” go offshore. The marketing departments, advertising departments, etc, etc, etc, are mostly offshored.
As a final point, Britain at the turn of the last century made 10 million bicycles a year, when it was an empire, but its balance of payment was never covered by manufacturing, in its history. Britains balance of payments has always been covered by Loyd’s of London and the money markets etc.
Ok, I’m waffling. But my first car was an MG Magnette MK4, and it’s a love of mine, so calling any of these brands British now is insulting to its heritage, IMO..