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22nd September 2018, 19:41 | #1 |
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First City Rover experience
While rummaging around at the breakers on Friday, I came across a City Rover. Now this is the first time I have actually had a chance to have a good look at one. Well, what can I say......... To be honest I was gobsmacked, this "thing" was worse than I was expecting. This thinly, very thinly veiled piece of Indian tat was just appalling. It's monotone grey hosedown interior was a joke, but the biggest joke was the Rover badge adorning the cheap and nasty steering wheel.
I realise things were tight back then, but shame on you Rover, that was a horror!
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22nd September 2018, 19:44 | #2 |
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Saw one on the MGR stand at the 2004 Birmingham Motor Show.
Utterly horrific. That interior - unbelievable quality for Rover to have been selling in 2004. My Allegro is nicer inside.
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22nd September 2018, 20:06 | #3 |
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I quite like the look of it. If it does what it says on the tin a cheap reliable transport then a thumbs up from me. At the time should of been branded as an Austin and sold about £2000 cheaper to make it work.
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22nd September 2018, 20:20 | #4 |
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Not sure about £2000 cheaper, £2000 basic price seems more realistic. I sat in it and wondered at the poorly fitting cheap and nasty plastics, the woeful switchgear and the general ambience of a 1980s Yugo.
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22nd September 2018, 21:26 | #5 |
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Mmm Tata Indica
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22nd September 2018, 21:41 | #6 |
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Ahh Indian plastics, I wonder if they were still using mahogany mould tools to make the interior plastics
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Not sure they were moulded at all, more like hand carved from the finest Indian plastic by 6 year olds with a particularly poor eye for detail!
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22nd September 2018, 22:25 | #8 |
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But who was it at MGR that thought it was a good idea?
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22nd September 2018, 22:35 | #9 |
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All the dealer tools? So is that both hammers AND the screw driver?
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No hammer required on a City rover, just push with a finger and the steel will deform
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