OK at the risk of being "controversial" (aka getting lynched), if I were the MMC board I would set-up a manufactirng facility in say Detroit (other U.S. locations are available), ship over say 50 key assembly staff from Pickersleigh Road, and service the U.S. market that way
There is/was a kind of precedent for this. In its declining years, under foreign ownership, TVR manufactured their successful Chimaera in Malaysia for a while, to serve the Far Eastern market. But it was not an unqualified success https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=147416 But think any other British manufacturing industry that has "offshored" its operations in the interests of economies resulting from proximity to significant export markets. Our once great textile industry (in which I worked for over 25 years) is a classic example https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...9502000/ECBE3E25DFC9C02C1B23B654962BA5B4
Peter 2009 3-litre Roadster "Ivor", royal ivory / green
