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The Rover Group plc was the name given in 1986 to the British state-owned from 1975 vehicle manufacturer BL. It initially included the Austin Rover Group car business, Land Rover Group, Freight Rover vans and Leyland Trucks.
The Rover Group was owned by British Aerospace from 1988 to 1994, when BAe sold the remaining car business to the German company BMW. The group was further broken up in 2000, when Ford acquired the Land Rover division, with the Rover and MG marques continuing with the much smaller MG Rover Group until 2005. Ownership of the original Rover Group marques is currently split between BMW, SAIC, and Tata Motors.
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