One of the "claim to fame" for the Rover 75 is that it was the first volume produced car to have a plastic pedal box:-.
Here is the sales and marketing blurb from Dupont, at the time:-
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The Rover 75 is the first volume-production saloon car to have an injection-moulded plastic pedal bracket. Made by Dura Automotive Inc., the part is moulded from glass-reinforced Zytel nylon.
Powerful and silent: to serve Rover’s aim of reducing noise in the passenger compartment of the Rover 75 to a minimum, DuPont’s specialized NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) facility in Hemel Hempstead (UK) analysed the vibration-absorption characteristics of the pedal bracket component of Zytel.
The new Rover 75 is in fact considered to be a class-leader in noise suppression."
Plastic is often thought to be the wonder material.
Now we have to put up with it, with the creaking pedal boxes and issues with plastic clutch parts, manifolds and many more plastic components failing.
Give me heavy metal any day
