Hopefully the marques will die...(WAIT DID HE JUST SAY THAT!?!?!-- okay before you all start throwing virtual tomatoes at me...)
MG and Rover could make money, but they've been saddled with the debt from years of bad management.
So...if they are allowed to be liquidated, somone could buy the plant, naming rights, technology, without inhereting the nasty debt, contracts etc... In other words, start from nearly scratch, where MG, at least, could be rebuilt like TVR.