What cars appeal to Rover owners

Yes you can own a Chinese Rover :mrgreen: but seriously the 75 is a very nice looking car, prior to me buying my current Honda work car I was looking at the 75's to do the job but was in the end put off by mutterings of engine unreliability and also 1 of them I test drove could barly pull the top off a rice pudding even though the salesman later rang me to tell me the car had an ECU fault that put it in drive home mode, in the show room he argued with me ( you could see his barley concealed disbeleif) when I told him it was a gutless peice of cr**.
Lovely interiors and detailing and they are cheap as chips if you wait long enough make sure you get an NZ new low k'd car and that the cam belt has been done. Still am tempted to buy one and I am sure some time in the future I may.

Graeme
 
I know a number of Rover fans that have had 75's for short spells, only to sell them quite quickly following fairly expensive failures. Head gaskets, auto-box failure, Diesel engine problems.

As stated they look like a lovely car, and I love the leather interiors, but I wouldn't buy one myself.....
 
Yes, I've heard all the dark mutterings about 75s, but I seem to have a potentially fatal attraction towards them. To me they capture in so many ways the essence of the P6, 30 years on.
 
Yes the misarable so and so's making such a fatally attractive package. One possibl;e option is to chuck the origional motor and install some other engine ...maybe a Rover 3.5 /3.9/4.6 V8.

Graeme
 
My first car was an NZ-new 67 2000SC when I was 17, followed by an imported 74 3500S and several P6s as parts cars

Then I hit my twenties and bought an 80's Citroen BX as an every day car

Only got rid of the 2000SC last xmas when I was back in Christchurch

In the UK I've had (in order) : 96 Rover 414Si, 97 Rover 416Si, 86 Range Rover EFi and 2005 BMW 1-series.. and my current stock is a Series 1 P6B Estate, two P6B NADA's (one LHD and one RHD), an 86 Jaguar XJS V12, 86 SD1 Vitesse TP (just sold today) and a 2008 BMW 3-series Coupe

I'd love a 70's Morgan +8 to play with.. or even a +4
 
Yes the misarable so and so's making such a fatally attractive package. One possibl;e option is to chuck the origional motor and install some other engine ...maybe a Rover 3.5 /3.9/4.6 V8.
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There is the MG variant of the Rover 75 with a V8 engine and RWD , Can't think what it's called but it's a future classic
 
I think it's just called the Rover 75 V8 - powered with a 4.6L ford engine for some reason I cannot fathom. :?:

Clarkson loved it.
 
I love the Rover 75 especially with the Conoisseur leather pack ... but engine wise they are BAD NEWS!! The only one worth having is the one with the Mustang V8 .... unsure if the V6 is up to much. I love the tahiti blue with black leather ... a real attractive car, modern yet hankering back to the old days. Like a reasonably expensive suit, tailored the old way. I have ummed and ared for ages over one, but always steered away due to the engine problems. I have had moaning for years from my wife, "I want an MGF" was the call 10 years ago! No way due to the K series, then we should have a family car, like a 75 .. again, No! Howver my father has a 25, K series up front and no problems to date.

Maybe the way to book it is, buy a fully loaded 75, they are as cheap as chips, service it to within an inch of its life and check the waterways regularly ... if it blows, get another engine .... it was cheap anyway!
 
lol Clarkson can be a right tool. Yeah there was one here in CHCH for sale a real stunner, I beleive the production for the V8 is now in China and that relaibility has improved!! Fuel consumption was woeful from whay I remember, I doubt they will sell enough of them to become a sought after classic well at least not here in NZ.

Graeme
 
I'd love the V8 but I would be too scared of the reliability factor, the car I saw was in metalic charcoal with carbon fibre trimmings with charcoal leather (i think) very very attractive but there was too much Bling Bling, Puff daddy would feel at home with this car :mrgreen:

Graeme
 
They are Ford Mustang engines ... relaible as you like. The Rover lumps are the toot!! That whole K series range are not worth a carrot.

I have had discussions about buying a mint, fully loaded 75 with a blown engine and then doing a transplant .... a Ford, Vauxhall etc. We soon came to the mutual agreement that all the ECU and computing is way above our heads!!! Its not like putting a 1980s SD1 into a 1970s P6 ...... technology is way out there these days.
 
Have spoken too quite a few past 75 owners most had horror stories to tell re engines and head gasket etc, none of them were previous Rover owners and are unlikely to be future Rover owner again. Lots available here in NZ cheapand low K'd

graeme
 
There is no such thing as Rover any more. The 75 was BMW designed .. lovely but BMW had Rover from Honda to get at the Mini. Hoinda had Rover to get into Europe. Whether we like it or not, Rover dies with the last SD1 that came off the production line in 1986!

Why not buy an SD1.
 
Graeme, was that the charcoal 75 V8 that Terrell Wallace had in their showroom a couple of years back? I went in and sat in it and wished like crazy I had the money to buy the damn thing. Beautiful car. I still dream about it at nights.

Most problems I've come across concerning the 75 are related to the 4 cylinder K-series versions. The 2.5 V6 is far more reliable. Get an early one though, prior to the factory's "Project Drive" which seriously compromised the quality of the 75's fixtures and fittings. I was checking out an '04 Tourer recently and was thoroughly disappointed by its fake "wood" trim and flimsy door handles. It wasn't a patch on the solid early 75s I'm more familiar with, and it was patently obvious where the factory had been driving down the costs in its desperate last year or two.

I'd forgive all that for a 75 V8, of which I believe less than a hundred were made (not counting the MG ZT V8) between its introduction in 2004 and the factory's closure in April 2005.
 
Hi Warren yes it was the
one at terrells, very tempting but I suspect it would become an anchor nice if you are a car collector though.

Twin P you are right I 100% agree, I just need to find a coupe'

Graeme
 
Some decisions cannot be ruled by the head, Graeme. Else why would I continue to drive a P6 at all? A 2004 Daihatsu Sirion would make much more sense. If I'd had 70 grand going spare that 75 V8 would be in my garage right now. Alongside GF148, of course. And you probably don't know about the clapped out '70 Daimler Sovereign I already have lurking about in a secret spot. How's that for crazy?
 
you are right logic must at some point give way to emotion just like Hitler needed Russia lol.
Found an interesting place to shop the other day Trademe cars in the "other" section, some iteresting cars there "interesting cars " is a fatal subject for me :oops:

Graeme
 
Oh, you're evil. I don't need temptations like that while I'm not working. Even now I've had to place my PAS conversion on hold until I start generating income again.
 
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