British owned car manufacturers?

[mickrick]

Can any one think of any? I'm talking production cars here.

Aside from kit cars. I can only think of two! I must be forgetting someone obvious surely?

I'll start the ball roling...
Morgan.
Mclaren.

I believe even Aston Martin is part owned by Ford and a Kuwaiti investment company.

[m44kts]

Is Noble still British?

[richcorsavxr]

noble
bac
?

[marshalla]

Westfield
Carbodies = London Taxi Co. = 20% chinese, damnit!
Ginetta

Edited by marshalla on Sunday 11th March 11:26

[sday12]

Jensen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Motors

[xRIEx]

marshalla said:

Westfield

Westfield are a kit car manufacturer.

[hardcorehobbit]

I thought Mclaren was at least partly owned by Qataris these days? I may be mistaken.

What about Ariel?

[richcorsavxr]

ascari i belive are owned by us
marcos
bristol

[marshalla]

xRIEx said:

Westfield are a kit car manufacturer.

Not exclusively - they sell fully-built cars too : http://www.westfield-sportscars.co.uk/SErange/spor...

[mickrick]

Hadn't thought of Noble..Not sure though.
Then I thought of AC, but find they're owned by a holding company in Malta.

Let's say I wanted to own a nice car that was built in britain, by a 100% British owned company.
I'm struggling here...

[xRIEx]

marshalla said:

xRIEx said:

Westfield are a kit car manufacturer.

Not exclusively - they sell fully-built cars too : http://www.westfield-sportscars.co.uk/SErange/spor...

I would guess most kit car manufacturers will do if you pay them enough, and plenty offer factory built options, but to my knowledge all Westfield models are available as kits. Caterham would be a better example as they produce some models which aren't available as kits (CSR and possibly the R500).



OT, we could Ariel to the list.

[mickrick]

Bristol owned by Kamkorp, owned by a British based Indian Businessman.

[mickrick]

Caterham is now owned by a Malaysian Businessman...

[marshalla]

richcorsavxr said:

ascari i belive are owned by us
marcos
bristol

Ascari - owner is Dutch
Marcos - owned by a Canadian
Bristol - not actually building anything right now and the parent holding company is British-Swiss and owned by an Indian.

[Ozzie Osmond]

When talking about the world's biggest companies expressions like "British owned" have very little meaning.

[Dave Hedgehog]

hardcorehobbit said:

I thought Mclaren was at least partly owned by Qataris these days? I may be mistaken.

i thought they had put most of the money up for mclaren cars

[The Moose]

Ultima?

[mickrick]

I though Marcos went bust in 2007?

[TomTheTyke]

Aston Martin aren't 100% British, Ford still own a bit and the Kuwaitis are involved I think but I was under the impression they were majority British owned, although that's not good enough for OP, finding a 100% British company is difficult in this globalised world. Ginetta a good shout though I reckon.

[xRIEx]

mickrick said:

Caterham is now owned by a Malaysian Businessman...

Holding and limited companies both registered in the UK and headquarters are in the UK. Limited companies are a legal entity in their own right, I thought it was the nationality of the company you were concerned about, not the nationality of the shareholder(s).

I suppose in that case you'd discount TVR as well.

Edited by xRIEx on Sunday 11th March 11:53