Autocar:What type of cars will be used wasn’t a key part of the planning, although we want to be projecting the right image.”
This is a disgrace, the Olympic Committee and the Government should hang their heads in shame. What image does using German cars project.
We - that's all us tax payers - spend £9billion on these games, sold to us as being a great boost for Britain and things British and we don't even use vehicles built in Britain. What message is it giving to the rest of the world - Britain has such a poor car industry it have to use a German supplier that builds vehicles in Germany, South Africa, the USA and so on. What impact would 4000 vehicles have on the struggling British vehicle manufacturing sector - at the very least it would improve the security of the factories by boosting their volumes. At best it would be an advert for those vehicles and certainly in the case of European exposure potentially increase the volumes by far more than the number of vehicles purchased for the games.
We build the best cars in the world here (Rolls, Bentley, Jaguar) and many other fine vehicles - we should use the opportunity of the games to shout about the great things that we can do in Britain.
