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Nanjing buys Rover

Published: July 24 2005 23:05 | Last updated: July 24 2005 23:05

MG-Rover sale could face SAIC challengeBy James Mackintosh in LondonThe £50m ($87m) sale of Britain's MG Rover to China's Nanjing Automobile, agreed on Friday, could be challenged in the courts by rival bidder Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp, China's biggest carmaker.

SAIC couldmake a statement as soon as today on whether it will act on threats voiced before the sale when it believed it was the leading bidder.

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