My life in 12 cars: McLaren Automotive boss Mike Flewitt
1996 Volvo C70 Coupe Flewitt’s Ford phase ended in the mid-1990s, when he took a job with Rolls-Royce in Crewe, tasked with revolutionising the manufacturing system for the forthcoming Silver Seraph (and Bentley Mulsanne Turbo). He made such a good job of it that he was promoted rapidly to production director – and that new prominence also brought an offer for him to run his own carmaking operation, the revolutionary Autonova business set up to build the Volvo C70 Coupé and Convertible at Uddevalla in Sweden. The business was jointly owned by Volvo and Tom Walkinshaw of TWR fame, and Fle...
Source: autocar.co.uk