Longbridge 'to make cars again'

I see, thanks Si. Has anyone tried designing/improvising a new cooling system to fit into the 200, perhaps with a larger capacity? Or is it not worth the effort?
 
Lopéz said:
I see, thanks Si. Has anyone tried designing/improvising a new cooling system to fit into the 200, perhaps with a larger capacity? Or is it not worth the effort?
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One of the main advantages is that it gets to temperature much quicker making it a very effiecient engine combined with its low mass, unfortunately they need looking after.

Early prototypes of the K series block were made of plastic!
 
[TW]Fox said:
Yes lets restart production BUT only if they can make the worst product Rover did, the MGTF! :D
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I actually like the look of them:(
And the concept they had for the new one was very cool.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Becuase people don't want to pay new car money for old design. If they want old design they can buy an old car and make a significant saving.

Example of this: Rover are bust.
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I personally dont think your argument about people not buying Rover because of 'old technology' is true.

I dont think the target market knew much about 90's underpinnings etc and wernt bothered. I think people didnt buy the cars in enough numbers* was because of the sustained image slating of Rover over a long period of time from the people who do know about cars. Friends, family... and mutiple weekly top gear Rover bashing jokes. Even mainstreem press like what car listing every Rover in the back of the mag with 2 out of 5 stars.

Even my mother bought a single issue of a car magazine when deciding on what car to replace her clio with and looked at each similar cars comments and star rating.

*And inefficient build processes and overpaid under motivated workforce yada causing Rover to go bust - they did actually sell a fair few cars in the UK.
 
-Mic- said:
I actually like the look of them:(
And the concept they had for the new one was very cool.
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Have you ever driven one though? I will admit that they look quite good (the MGTF that is, not the MGF). I borrowed one for a week - the TF 135 on a '54 plate. I *really* wanted to like it, but it was rubbish. The interior looked and felt like it came out of a cereal packet, driving around at 50 sounded like you had the roof down (when of course it was up), it had a plastic rear screen (note that this car was built in 2005) which you couldn't see out of, no ABS, a lot of play in the steering, spongey brakes, the list could go on...

Let me just add that the TF 135 wasn't a cheap car, coming in at over £17k. Compared it my £16.5k '54 VW Golf, it felt like it had been built by chimps, the dash looked like bits of it could have dated back to the early 90s - how did they think they could get away with it?
 
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NickXX said:
Have you ever driven one though? I will admit that they look quite good (the MGTF that is, not the MGF). I borrowed one for a week - the TF 135 on a '54 plate. I *really* wanted to like it, but it was rubbish. The interior looked and felt like it came out of a cereal packet, driving around at 50 sounded like you had the roof down (when of course it was up), it had a plastic rear screen (note that this car was built in 2005) which you couldn't see out of, no ABS, a lot of play in the steering, spongey brakes, the list could go on...

Let me just add that the TF 135 wasn't a cheap car, coming in at over £17k. Compared it my £16.5k '54 VW Golf, it felt like it had been built by chimps, the dash looked like bits of it could have dated back to the early 90s - how did they think they could get away with it?
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Ow dont get me wrong, terrible car.
 
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