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Default CHAPTER 02 - Basic Rover 75 and MG ZT Information

BASIC ROVER 75 AND MG ZT INFORMATION


The Rover 75 is an executive car produced initially by the Rover Group at Cowley, Oxfordshire, UK, and later by MG Rover at their Longbridge site in Birmingham, UK. The Rover 75 was available with front-wheel drive in either a saloon or estate body and latterly, in long wheelbase form (the limo had 100mm rear leg room stretch for the rear passengers) and a rear-wheel-drive, V8-engined specification.


The car was unveiled to the public at the 1998 Birmingham Motor Show, with deliveries commencing in February 1999. In 2001.


Three years after the launch of the Rover 75 and less than a year after the de-merger of MG Rover from BMW, the MG ZT and MG ZT-T were launched along with the Rover 75 tourer.


The body shell and chassis of the car was almost identical to the Rover 75, but with more aggressive grille, sportier styling, stiffer suspension and re-tuned engines.




In late 2004 both the Rover 75 and the MG ZT where given an exterior face-lift consisting of cosmetic changes to head lights, bumpers and other very tiny changes.




Production of the Rover and later MG badge models ceased on 8 April 2005 when manufacturer MG Rover Group entered administration.

You can still find both 75's and ZT's that have yet to be registered with delivery miles that where registered in late 2008, that where sold when MG Rover went into liquidation and cars that where made in 2005, where often sold and registered after that date along with cars that where shipping off from England, where brought back and sold again into England!


So purchasing a 2008 registered Rover 75 with delivery miles is still a realistic chance if you are willing to pay for it!

A key feature of the 75/ZT range was actually its safety in crash tests, making 4 stars in NCAP tests and 5 stars when the cars where fitted with the optional head "pillow" side air bags. These are the same standard of tests that are used today.


Ive provided a link to a video of the cars being tested.


Note, that some cars on ''S'' regs exist, and S reg cars are usually preproduction models that where sold on in 1999 alongside ''T'' reg cars and are quite desirable within the club itself but maybe not to the casual individual.




The Rover 75 and MG ZT where survived by SIAC and Nanjing Automotive (Now one company and selling under the MG name in the UK) who purchased between them the rights to all the MG and Rover cars. The MG 7 was essentially a mix of both 75 and ZT parts and was sold in china, asia and parts of australia.


The Roewe 750 was based on the Rover 75 limos (with a 100 mm stretch in the rear cabin for more leg room, modern rear end similar to the 5 series of the time, V8 front end as seen on the UK Rover 75 V8 models and a revised interior) and was also sold in China and Asia.


Neither of these cars where available in the UK from 2008 when launched, and produced officially ending in 2016 using the Rover 75 design foundation.

The Rover 75 went on to form the foundation of the Roewe 550 / mk1 & mk2 MG6 with many components and designs shared or improved (such as front subframe with a twin pair of lower engine mounts)

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