Why buy a Rover?

great advice

great advice

great advice

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A lot of folk have been jumping on the band wagon recently!! with the exception of a few ok cars (MG ZT, 220 Turbo) Rovers are a steaming pile of turd, noturiously unreliable and packed full of old technology.

You cant like the looks can you? some of the coupés are alright looking but nothing to put a tingle in my trousers came from Rover.

You didnt buy it for its reliability did you? 1.8 K series has to be the most unreliable engine ever due its high amount of HGF at 80k and all manner of other problems with the other engines.

Build quality? Surely not? my wife has a 2003 MG ZR and it has the same sloppy build quality of a mates 1995 214Si, they are pretty much identical cars, except for stick on tat they are identical cars. Wasnt this a car designed in the 1980;s?? im sure the design was bought from Toyota!! the ZS is a Civic Coupe isnt it? Body panels dont quite fit, the interior plastics are nastier than a nasty thing - i could go on all day tbh.

Price maybe? when you saw your bargain Rover, didnt you put on your common sense cap and ask why they are so cheap?

City Rover - my brothe in law in his infinite wisdom bought one of these steaming piles of crap, not sure what he paid for it but only got £2k when he sold it and it was less than a year old lol its what Rover owners deserve :p

I just dont see the appeal tbh, as much as i mock Mondeo's, its a million times better for the price if you want a cheap but loaded saloon!!
 
iCraig said:
Ok..

You can say all that for a lot of car manufacturers, I think you're just trying to provoke Rover owners on the board.
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Im not, i just dont see the appeal. Plenty of manufacturers out there have problematic cars, but they all sell new cars rathe than rehashed old designs!! im interested into knowing why people bought a Rover when its clearthey are pants :D

As a Rover owner myself i still cant see the appeal, my wife bought ours because it looked good and it was cheap :rolleyes: if i was after trouble id just go to speakers corner :D
 
One question to run along side this, does anyone know why the 1.8 K series was used in the Freelander? surely such a good company was able to pick a better engine than that?

Rover V8 is still a legend!!! id go for a ford over it though but its still an ace engine.
 
If Rover hadnt gone to the naff car hall of shame in the sky (j/k) and were still making these good reliable cars (j/k) where do you fans reckon they would have been in 5 and 10 years time?

5 years time - a brand new small hatch - oh wait its just the same old rover with yet another face lift?

10 years time - an MG ZS mk 4- oh wait its the same as the mk1 but face lifted to high heaven :D

I reckon they would have ditched the 1.8 k series in favour of a more reliable engine, but tbh i cant see new cars :)
 
Popularity doesnt make a good car though, you see hundreds of Corsa's, Astra's and Vectra's on the road. They are pants compared to the competition imo, its 4 years 0% finance and a years free insurance that sell those - not the fact they are great cars.

If they were that good, they wouldnt have to offer such great deals on them would they? Rover where the same.
 
TheVoice said:
The Astra - both previous and current generations - have proven themselves to be very reliable, capable cars (the fact that so many police forces use them should be an indicator to that). The current Vectra is the same. The Corsa suffers a bit because it's based on the original Corsa design so it's aging.
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Im not saying there not, im saying they have nothing on the competition. The Focus is miles better than an Astra. Greater Manchester Police use Astra's because they get a big discount and a 3 year unlimited mileage warrenty. Im sure they would use someone like Proton if they offer a better deal :p
 
Simon said:
First you ask why people buy them, surely there must have been a reason 10 years ago and at the time they WERE popular are WERE NOT pants.

Really you just want to argue that you think Rovers are crap for some reason, Why? Boring day at work or something?

As for the future if Rover were still around: They had new designs ready to start, but not enough money for the tooling required.
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Read over my posts, when people have said they bought for bang for buck and other reasons i havent said anything. Surely if i was after trouble i would have said something then? i would have said they aint getting bang for buck, its a fair point and ive taken it on board.

I only pulled up the point in you saying they must be good because they sold so well is utter crap. Offer them cheap enough or give a good deal and people are gunna snap them up, that doesnt make them a good car, it makes a good deal. Even when raising this point i havent said Rovers are crap. I said that in my opening post. there are exceptions to the rule though.

Kia are currently offering 5 years unlimited mile warrentie's and are selling more cars in the UK than they ever have. Does this mean their cars have suddenly become good? :confused:
 
rcrossco_1 said:
Not when the suspension on the rover has been replaced with real suspension.

Ie, Coilovers, or Koni's.
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Not Rover then is it smart arse :D You can throw money at a Rover and make it handle like a dream but with very few OEM parts its hardly down to Rover that the car rocks.

Cant see any production rover's beating a scooby tbh
 
rcrossco_1 said:
So do I.

Scoobs cost the earth to buy, the earth to run, usually utter morons drive them "cos its well quick innit".

I prefer the Rover on all fronts, and would rather have the Coupe Turbo and fist fulls of cash, than a scooby, and far less money.

If Rover had made a 4WD coupe Turbo, RIP Impreza, G.O, Goodnight Vienna, Golden Goal.
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Thats your own personal situation though, everyone has a different amount of disposable income :confused: ive just spent £45k building my track weapon yet still have a "fist full of cash".

If Kia would have made a Sorento 142 litre, w16 engine with 4 turbo's and 16 superchargers it would be RIP Rover anything, G.O Goodnight Vienna, Golden Goal :confused: :confused: Do i sound stupid?
 
If Kia would have made a Sorento 142 litre that run on fresh air :D, w16 engine with 4 turbo's and 16 superchargers it would be RIP Rover anything, G.O Goodnight Vienna, Golden Goal
 
agw_01 said:
The 1.4 K-Series isn't a bad performing engine by all accounts.

Anything that can shift a shell weighing over a ton to 60 in under 10.5 seconds, while only being a small capacity engine is great IMO.

It didn't run out of steam until 85-90 and impressed me on many occasions. My step-brother had the cheek to slate it this evening. I almost hit him. Just because I've got a new car, doesn't mean he has the right to change his opinion about the 214.
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My wife has that eninge in her MG and i can tell you with first hand experience - it aint that good :p
 
agw_01 said:
Compare it with any other 1.4 engine then.

I bet it's one of the best performing engines. It's a bit unfair to compare a 1.4 against a 2 litre turbo or something :D
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tbh im comparing it to my brothers 1.2 punto, which is loads faster and you dont have to revs the nuts off it to get it going :D
 
Do you want a race? me in my brothers Punto (which is only 80bhp iirc) and you in my wife's MG ZR (105bhp) - i bet you any money ill leave you eating my dust.
 
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