According to Chris Britcher, the editor of Sportbusiness.com, the deal had been superbly engineered.
"Britain's real skill is putting together superbly engineered products where our high labour cost isn't important," Mr Cooke says.
At one time, Packard dominated the luxury market in the United States, eclipsing even Cadillac, with superbly engineered vehicles that pioneered a number of safety and convenience features.
The archaeologists have also found a stretch of a superbly engineered Roman road that probably led to a bridge across the river Walbrook.
The burdened Rhine valley lines and the difficult routes through Hessen were augmented by a superbly engineered (and extremely expensive) high-speed track that permitted speeds up to 155 miles (250 km) per hour.
Now Mr. Firth lives with his family on 82 acres in the Berkshires, about 30 miles east of here, where he raises pigs and sheep that turn up on the superbly engineered menu at Bell and Anchor, his new pub in Great Barrington, Mass.
