Any pics? What happend to it?
I moved so I sold it. It was in my garage for 6months after I got the S2000 though.
Vid on way to donington
http://www.aslf53.dsl.pipex.com/Donny/Si.wmv
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I moved so I sold it. It was in my garage for 6months after I got the S2000 though.
Vid on way to donington
http://www.aslf53.dsl.pipex.com/Donny/Si.wmv
I've been in Andy's Turbo. Loved it!
That was on a very hot day with you and J in the car. I'll take you out in it again on a cooler day... it's much quicker!
Not to mention I couldn't boot it for very long due to cooling issues
That was on a very hot day with you and J in the car. I'll take you out in it again on a cooler day... it's much quicker!
Not to mention I couldn't boot it for very long due to cooling issues
Providing I still have a job you can take me out when I'm up in a couple of weeks!
Simon, very nice
- I'll watch the video later!
Well, at least the Rover owners don't insist on getting bent over and lubed up by going to a BMW stealer to maintain service history on a car with moon miles.
I tend to find most performance Rover drivers capable of working on their own car, and avoiding being shafted by stealers.
Oh well, each to their own, I guess some people like being mugs.
I would rather have an MGZT estate or non estate over most BMW's. 80% of the BMW range is pointless, and at least Rover have the right engine size in the model number.
The prices of the ZT 4.6L is CRAZY. Add a supercharger, and you have an M5 killer, for Rover money. Yes please.
I tend to find most performance Rover drivers capable of working on their own car, and avoiding being shafted by stealers.
Oh well, each to their own, I guess some people like being mugs.
I would rather have an MGZT estate or non estate over most BMW's. 80% of the BMW range is pointless, and at least Rover have the right engine size in the model number.
The prices of the ZT 4.6L is CRAZY. Add a supercharger, and you have an M5 killer, for Rover money. Yes please.
Being capable of working on your own car and choosing to do so are two entirely different things. I'm perfectly capable of it (as previous ground up restorations/rebuilds of both cars and engines shows), but with my modern cars, I choose not to do it, because the time involved combined with the effect on resale makes it not worthwile.
Rather a confusing statement, this one. Are you suggesting that being able to own a modern car and choose to get it serviced by someone else makes you a mug?
You don't have an M5 killer, you might have a car that might, maybe, come close to taking one on in a straight line. That's far from being an M5 killer.
80% of most manufacturers ranges are pointless, but people like choice, and like variety. What's the problem with that?
That's because we NEED to know how to work on our own cars
Love that video Si. Remember when you posted it first time round. Makes me smile even now.
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Aaah brilliant. So who were you before you got banned? There is no way you've not posted here before August 2008.
The reason I get my car serviced by BMW is because it's easy and convenient and only 10% more expensive than an independant. Plus they give me a brand new loan car and... I can afford it. Why scrabbing about in a pool of oil if you don't need to? If you enjoy it then brilliant - I don't, so I get somebody else to routine servicing and SOME repairs (I do others myself).
Why are we even discussing this in a thread about Rovers? Why have you insisted in bringing not only BMW's but even my own servicing preferences into a thread thats nothing to do with eihter?
Is it any wonder half this forum thinks this is some sort of BMW bumming forum when we have tedious people like yourself looking for an excuse to post OMG BMW in every single thread?
You are awesome. Is it Oracle?
Your posts in this thread are doing nothing but embarrasing the marque for the decent Rover owners we have on this forum.
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It's ugly and slow. And unreliable.
It's a cheap runabout basically, I don't get the point in buying a mint condition rover, especially from japan.
Doesn't that rather depend on what price it fetches?
Well I'm in both camps, I work on my MG ZS but my Z4 gets serviced at my local BMW dealer. Oh, and it came with a 60,000 mile service pack so I don't pay anything for it.
You sound like a sad bitter child tbh.
Ugly is opinion so fair enough. Slow though? Since when is a Rover Coupe Turbo slow?
They are not unreliable cars either and what difference does it make if it is from Japan or not?
One question, have you ever owned a Rover? More importantly a T16 engined car?
(2 litre NA and 2 litre Turbo)
I drove one of the old Rover Tomcat coupe turbo thingy's at Thruxton when they were launched back to back with the one without the turbo. Long time back and my memory is crappy but they impressed me back then, though they were a little 'rustic' as I recall.
No 150mph can ever be called "slow", no matter how much you hate it.
I have a strong anti Rover/BMC/Austin streak from my youth, but I've been in and driven a few Rover 200's of this era and all were satisfying to drive.
The 200 turbo doesn't half shift, I'd love an estate version.
Funny you should say that, there are a few Turbo'd Tourers around!
So cheap its ridiculous.
I wish I had chance to take you out in my old one, used to surprise a lot of people.