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D'Oh!!! I did look in the forum I posted in to see if anybody had posted it already, but not that one. Fun anyway. The thing that got me most apart from the Rovery stuff was the Dolly Sprint at £20k - I saw an immaculate one for sale for £8000 7 or 8 years ago at a classic car show in Stroud, and very nearly put my hand in my pocket. Looks like I'd have made a bob or two...
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8th December 2021, 12:41 | #4 |
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Thanks for the links .
There's a fair few that I lusted after from my younger days, although I never got to ride in any of them . A Dolly Sprint was definitely on my list. I'd happily have something like that rather than a Eurobox. Oh, I do except it's not a V8 |
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Rover should have built a flagship model 75 with 400bhp straight out of the box.It would have transformed the image of the company and who knows may have saved them.All major manufactures have a sport/performance arm.
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can anyone find the clip of a V8 is it, towing a car transporter out accelerating I think a transit?
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8th December 2021, 18:42 | #8 |
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I felt the 620ti was quite the sleeper car as well.
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8th December 2021, 19:37 | #9 |
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Nice thought, but the press would still have hammered them over the old man AKA retro styling, mocked anyone who would bother buying a performance Rover, and generally done their best to sell the BMW/Audi etc alternative. Aside from that, as much as we all like the cars, the company needed a lot more of a shake up, modernising and investment than could ever realistically have been put into it.
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I love my 1.8 75 dearly but l wouldn't necessarily label it the best car Rover ever made. True, it has modern efficiencies not available at the time of the classic Rover's & the rust protection knocks the older cars into a cocked hat but still, the P5B has road presence by the bucketload & P6 was years ahead of it's time & still looks pretty futuristic at sixty years old.
You have to look at things in the context of their times.
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