Rover 75 Sport
 

Morning All

Does anyone have any more photos (only seen one on the AROline site) of the Rover 75 Sport?

Thanks

Is that not the ZT 🤣🤣

Or the oxymoron special edition.

Is this another of it (second pic - first displaying)?

http://rover75-mgzt.blogspot.com/p/rover-75_1.html

I think Andrew means this one.

https://i1.wp.com/www.aronline.co.uk...00%2C382&ssl=1

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/88/e3...ea15bec944.jpg

Not sure if both are the same car with different wheels or if they made two of them. Have never heard what happened to them. Assume they were still in the Longbridge factory until 2005 and then were crushed along with so many others?

According to the MOT history T339 JOP MOT expired in July 2010. So made it out of the factory, assuming that's an original and not a copy

Cheers Rick, that's the one.
I assumed the styling was not the same as a ZT?

Andrew

My understanding is that the Rover 75 sport prototype was designed before the MG ZT came out in 2001. So the Rover 75 sport idea was before they went ahead with the MG variants. Don't know how true that is as I've only ever been able to find very little info on it.

The rover 75 sport is where I got the inspiration from when I had my mki 75 and fitted the mesh grill and painted the lower grill silver, although didn't colour code the upper grill surround.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1953/...bfe9a41a_c.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1959/...83749371_c.jpg

Was the sport just a styling package? Does anyone know what the different spec was?



Thanks Tom

I know zilch about these but IMHO it looks really nice - just enough adjustments to give it a 'sharper' shape.
There are more than just wheel differences - albeit torpedo badge and bullet chrome trim are both 'clip-on' jobs, headlight power wash is clearly on one, not sure about 'tother and maybe the bonnet shut line is different. Perhaps your images are better rendered than mine but they look two different colours to me (black and perhaps one of the dark green shades?)

It was an idea mooted by the designer Richard Woolley. Changes were mostly cosmetic but did also include about an inch chopped off the ride height. Although in retrospect a few elements were of the time, it also looked rather gorgeous.

Think they should have gone ahead with it and called it the mki contemporary model. Anyone know what the name is of the colour of the green one? Doesnt look like any of the mg rover colours?

Arden Green rings a bell, though I could be totally wrong :shrug:

I have a Sports Executive:cool:
https://i.imgur.com/YTu8BWpl.jpg

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I have :D

Even thinking of subscribing again.

Wheres my tax disc holder :duh:

A Rover 75 Vitesse :) mane sounds great:D

Superb Pic Ronnie. :D

Thanks me old mate:bowdown: don't know who took it:D Take care and I'll see you when all this is done:cool:

Look after yersel too Marra,hope its sooner rather than later for a catch up.

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It was never given the go ahead as a 75 so as to not compete with the E46 models.
BMW bolstered that too, and also had reduced the height of the front indicators of the original 75 design, to such an extent that lowering the car later wasn’t possible without redesigning the whole bumper.
This is why after BMW, under the new MG-R, Peter Stevens relocates the indicators on the new redesigned ZT bumper to a higher position to allow for the drop in ride height.

This one currently being advertised in Australia

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/15521881...&segname=11021

This is as close as I could get..

Rover 75 sport interior. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2247bc2b80.jpg

Piano black dashboard fascia and black half leather seats.

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March 2000 rover 75 sport. A reg check however reveals it to be a 2.5 Connie, however we know that "prototypes" like this were based on an existing model underneath similar to s525ovp being photographed with zt fittings.
Wonder whatever happened to this sport???https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...467a3434a9.jpg

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MoT history doesn't look at all bad. It had done 109k miles at the last MoT.

I've never been able to get an answer to exactly what the Sports Suspension option was on the Contemporary SE pack - anything like Pete's final comment above?

That's got a V8 decal under the side repeater....[edit] but I've now looked at all the images in the advert, it's a V6