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Like I said - ex-Rover employees, of which there are several in my faculty. From what they've told me, although Rover did initially lead both the styling and the engineering, the vast majority of their efforts were (unfortunately) dropped by BMW - hence having the Chrysler engine (which BMW mandated), BMW strut suspension instead of hydragas, no subframes etc. It was BMW that decided that the car should be a small fashionable sporty car in the first place, and Frank Stephenson, the chief stylist, was at BMW, not Rover. It's a Rover 'through and through' in that the Rover engineers did what BMW told them to do. Or at least, that's just what I've been told.
I'll stop now too, though.