Evenin!
Just in and managed to catch up wiv yer fred (was chasin yer tail so sorry if this is already out of date, hope yer dint mind! ) - am with Yella on this one, i think TATA will prob be a good move for Landy. I worked for a bit with a chap who worked in Rover in the 70s and 80s and said that pretty much all the night-shift work force were complete alcoholics who fell asleep, weren't managed (coz the managers were asleep ****ed up) and then moaned constantly about their rights, and fook all work got done at all - and all that before Honda came along and tried to show brits how to do it properly. (which dint really work coz we were all too busy complaining about too much work to actually do any)
I reckon that within the decade there will be 3 car makers in the world - VAG (Audi, Seat, VW, Bugatti, etc) Ford (with all the volvo etc ancillaries - and don't forget they are a large stakeholder in TATA and various japanese ones dint they own mitsubishi or summat?) and another - and with India goin the weay it is in the world market, i wouldn't be surprised if it were TATA! Economies of scale is pretty important in the new car market!