[TW]Fox;23473426 said:
80 miles a day and you decided swapping a 2.0 diesel 75, probably one of the best cars Rover ever made, for a ZS, was a good idea? The mind boggles, the 75 was perfect unless it was a nail but you always tell us these cards are not nails so it can't have been that.
Presumably you will now spend the next 3 months telling us how good the ZS is only to change it for a 600 or something in April..
Yeah, I'm afraid it doesn't make sense Matt
The ZS is ok in mk2 180 form, but a mk1 diesel to replace a 75??
If you are so confident you only ever want old Rovers, get something interesting like a P6 or SD1
I totally see where you're both coming from - I can't explain it either but last week I had a hoon in a nicely sorted ZS diesel, and remembered how much I missed mine.
My commute is half motorway, half brisk country roads - perfect for a 75 with around 160BHP like mine. I also did the same commute back in 2011 in the ZS, and for some reason the chuckability of it made the first half (country part) so much fun, even though a motorway in a rock-hard car does suck after a while.
All in all it's not cost me anything - I'm actually going to come out of the deal a bit better off. It's partly down to the list of things the ZS has had replaced, all wearing transmission parts aside from the gearbox itself are pretty much new, as is the exhaust and the tyres.
You know me guys, I buy crap, get bored and sell on. As long as it's not costing me much (good scrappies around here!) it's a pretty harmless hobby - although I'd like to keep this one for a while.
As much as I love you lot, there's zero point justifying it because at the end of the day, the ZS is just a 90s Civic with rock-hard suspension and stick on tat. In my opinion, though, they got quite a good balance of economy and chuckability in the ZS diesels.
