Great News for Washwood Heath

[Dirty Habit]

I knew they were too quick to demolish the LDV plant.... but never mind, a new plant and a new car..

[Novanick1]

so basically a Datsun Go with a LDV badge stuck on it   

[Dirty Habit]

Better than a LDV Cub I suppose...

[Lankytim]

PIGLOT/PIGLET?

 

What's this thread about then?

[Ghosty]

PIGLOT/PIGLET?

 

What's this thread about then?

I think it's overspill from a comment in the Datsun Go thread that the grill was the shape of a giant LDV badge.

[Novanick1]

Better than a LDV Cub I suppose...

is this fake or real?

[John F]

Fake, I suspect. But ace.

[Lord Sterling]

Funny that, I was just up by the old LDV plant the other day.

[Ghosty]

If this was real it'd be an LDC. The V stands for Vans.

[Dirty Habit]

PIGLOT/PIGLET?

 

What's this thread about then?

 Washwood Heath was flattened, the Maxus tooling quickly shipped to China where it is still produced,  so the site could be used for a Service center for HS2 ....But now that white elephant is probably not going to happen, what can the site be used for? As we live is a world where GerMINI's are built at Cowley, Chinese MG's at Longbridge lets build an assembly plant in the U.K. and give it a brand name that people know..... and after all if you design a car with a grill that resembles  the LDV logo.... subconsiously, customers already know the brand. It could work. And they did sell a Nissan van as the LDV Cub.

[Dirty Habit]

If this was real it'd be an LDC. The V stands for Vans.

or Vehicles

[Lukas]

It may look like a giant LDV-badge but that´s not a real problem because outside the UK no one known what LDV is.  

[STUNO]

Not quite true Lukas. LDV has been about in in southern parts too. a Convoy was the prison van of choice in my local part of NZ until recently, and others were seen on a regular basis.

[rml2345]

So it'll be a Little Dangerous Vehicle rather than a Little Dangerous Van?

[chaseracer]

Or indeed Large Dangerous Van, if my experience with the school minibus is representative...