Maybe the French, Germans and Americans were uninterested in the first Rover 800, but Richard and Hyacinth Bucket had it in all 5 series of Keeping Up Appearances.
@Mr69Deano They are narrower, shallower and lower than most of the other cars here. They may be ever so slightly longer than on or two of them but that's it. My research comes from a 1991 edition of "Whatcar" magazine who have a full specs and dimensions list in their guides.
@VooDooXII they are a lovly looking car the coupe, i have too keep talking myself out of getting one for my next car, a lot of car for the money these days too also you might be interested in this video.
New top gear is a completely different show, much better but you can't really compare the 2, old top gear faded away beause boring old farts don't like change and insisted it stayed the same.
Now old guys, go and watch 5th Gear with a cup of tea and a biscuit while people who are NOT beige and have a sense of humour and the brains and energy to go out and test drive a car for themselves before they buy it enjoy the New Improved Top Gear format.
well some of us prefer nice calm quite nice interesting fact based top gear like this used to be like and this is what and how top gear should always be like
are you kidding this is what Top Gear Should be like and should always have been like Top Gear should take a leaf out of 5th Gear Book and make a sensible intellegent motoring programme again and Top Gear Should be presented by Jeremy Clarkson Quentin Wilson Tiff Needel and Chris Goeffy get rid of Moron May and Hammy Hammond and make it like this again interesting and intellegent
One of the best cars ever made, especially the 2.7. Lacked tourque!!! No Way, that's one of the reasons the police used them. Modern cars just don't cut it any more. They are disposable, characterless and a sea of plastic.
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Rover thought it was a classy touch to put a grille on every car they made. A classier touch would have been to build the big lump of crap behind the grille properly and to throw the shit K series engine away and use all japanese engines
The car didnt use the K series untill 1995. To be fair the head gasket issues on the KV6 wear not excuse but the Honda 2.7V6 lacked torque. A push bike was quicker then it.
There you go you heard him say it, Jeremy Clarkson liked the Rover 800, I wonder what he would say about it now on that slapstick joke they call Top Gear now?
I never understand how 'Jaguar' seems to escape BL but Rover always gets bogged down in it. Since when did ROVER put a grille on an Austin Allegro VDP?
Jeremy not being an ego-master! I still love his style even now though. I guess the BBC just doesn't care as much as they used to. Society changes, TV changes with it!
my dad had three 820's. The last one (a Mk 2) died of death from a relay problem. Absolutely loved all three of them, the Mk 2 was the best though. Dont care what the posh Jeremy says, it was a solid car. Only car that can compare to it is the Land Rover Freelander. BTW, is it just me or do you just feel safer in the 820?
In the engine bay theres a box on the passenger side. It contains three (sometimes four) relays. Once the engine started it was fine. Then one relay would start flickering, the engine would start to splutter and it'd die. It was probably a problem with the EMU, but we never found out. Although I have seen the car since driving around perfectly. But the current owner has disgraced the car by putting a tow-bar on it :(
I see... my dad's Rover 820 (1995 model) is quite nicely hold due to my dad never leaving it out of service. It has 273,500 km written on, but still goes like if it were new. Shame about your dad's latest Rover, it is a gorgeous car to have, and to drive. That's all I can say about it...
Yeah I know. I want my first car to be a Rover 820. But the insurance is alot more exspensive on the 820 than it is on the Rover 75. Which is weird but oh well lol
When I got my first car millions of years ago (lol), it was a 1981 ford fiesta in beige with a 1.1 litre engine and a top speed of about 70 mph, I bought the thing for £300 and I had to pay nearly £1500 insurance every year.
I now drive an audi A3 and pay £300 a year beacuse I am not an 18 year old who might speed and crash.
You always pay more when you are younger, so look at a smaller car for your first, then after two or three years, get the rover...just my advice...
Yeah I totally understand. But I was quoted around about £1,500 for a Renault Clio 1.2, the same as the Rover 75. So in my mind if I can run a bigger car (insurance wise) for the price of a smaller car, I will go for the bigger car. Plus I feel crippled in a small car. I'm quite tall so me and small spaces dont get on lol
As I've said before also for the 600 Series, ——————//-?/) —————--/—-/ —————-/—-/ ———--//?/'--'//?`·_ ———-/'/--/—-/—--/¨?\ ——--('(———-? ?~/'--') ———\————-'—--/ ———-'\'————_-·/ ————\———--( ————-\———--\ to everyone who dislikes these cars!!!!
My dad has this car, an 820Si Automatic, and it goes just as well as it did when he bought it, waaaay back in June 1995...yes it had some problems but, to be true, all the cars suffer when age goes on, and especially the newest cars (from 2002 onwards), which are full of electrics, are even more unreliable than the Rover 800 OR, at Least, equal...we aren't looking forward to get rid of the 820, we're gonna keep it as long as it is able to move!!! Besides, it's a joy to ride, and very beautiful!!
The MK2 800 was a good car and to be honest fixed alot of the problem with the MK1.
The 75 is a good car but it's no 800, and yes it was out dated from it's launch just like the 600. The 800 was never out dated except for it's handerling. The 2.0 was the best in class, space was no Grandada beater but it had more then enough. Even ride and handerling was good till 96 when others moved the game on.
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If you bought a Rover 800 you're asking for flipping trouble!! Crap cars - helped killed Rover. The Rover 75 was the ONLY decent car that the modern day Rover produced. Dont try and compare it to the 800 rubbish... anyone who bought one of those knows NOTHING about cars...
Rover 75's? You would have to be dead a long time before you would want one of them. They should have been built long before the Rover 800's. Look at a 75 and they have always looked so outdated from the begining, whereas the 800 was built with a style that still looks good today.
The Rover 800 helped destroy Rover with its unreliability! True enough - if you dont like retro-styling - which the 75 has - stay away from the 75.... but at least it HAS style!
I sold my Rover 75 couple months ago - and taken up on the theory "if you cant beat 'em -join 'em!" and bought a brand new BMW 7 Series! - oh well....!
Thanks for being so honest with your car ownership update, I guess I won by keeping my car (should have my 800 coupe for some years yet). Enjoy your 7 series, that must be so stuffed with features, and all the buttons for them all! A bit to complex for me, but I bet the ride is good.
To be honest with you my 75 had more features - electric folding mirrors, electric blind, TV - all that are expensive extras on the BMW. The BMW isnt as goodlooking as the 75 - drives better admittedly - but i'm still waiting for the MG or the 'Roewer' the Chinese are attempting to make! Good luck with the 800 - should be a classic soon if not already
Weirdly, the Germans and even the Italians liked the styling... It was the first Brit car to win the Golden Steering Wheel Award. Just days later Rover 75 was voted The Journal/AA Car of the Year. A panel of leading Italian and international automotive experts also declared the Rover 75 the World's Most Beautiful Automobile - High Class Saloon (1999 or 2000).. I can give you the sources to prove it.
What didn't help was that the design philosophy of the complete brand was allowed to soldier on for as long as it did - It's the same problem which occurred at Jaguar, although most of this was under Fords instruction. The MG brand was a reasonable breath of fresh air - but perhaps just too late. Anyway even if MGR had survived, the amount of pollution at the site would have sunk them even if the cashflow problem didn't.
I thought this video was for a 'Rover 800 Review'! Obviously I got it wrong! Anyway hows your sad 'OLD' 75 doing? Have you sold it yet? I've still got my 800 Coupe. and I'm keeping it.
Superb video - thanks for finding this. Some of the classic Clarkson trademarks are already there; the reluctance to cling to the old review format ("you don't want to see in there, do you..."), and the snap decision at the end, irrationally ignoring the rest of the review... Brilliant. And yes, I drive an Alfa Romeo 164, though I'm not sure if it touches my erogenous zones! -Alex
Like i say dont listen to clarckson he knos fuck all hes just a tosser like he thinks cars without rear tortion bars r better but they r not cause the whells can snap off without a tortion bar in a big impact to them, in no this cause i work in a garege and the fact of the matter is we hardly get rover we get french cars, vw's and fiats
Clarkson is indeed the best host of Motor Show.... till now I think Top Gear is nice due to him... as compared to 5th Gear...(too bad, in our country, we do not have this show)
Actually, Mr Clarkson did not cause the demise of Rover. Rover did that for themselves. BMW gave the Phoenix Consortium almost £1bn to develop new cars. What did they do? Give themselves pay rises and spend 20p on giving the cars new shaped headlights and a shiny grille.
BMW caused the demise!! They robbed the Mini project, sold off Land Rover and left them with cars that were already 5 years old. The £1bn wasnt given in money, it was given in assets like unsold cars, property, land. They gave them only £500m which these days isnt enough to develop a car as well as keeeping a company afloat. BMW wouldn't be in the situation it is today if it wasnt for Rover.
No. BMW didn't give £1 billion. They LENT Rover group five hundred million, a load of unsold old Rover 200/400s (the 25 and 45 were out) and longbridge. What it kept and sold on was Rover's R&D centre, kept MINI, kept the Rover 45 replacement and sold off LR. BMW also sold the engine making part of Rover back to Rover at the cost of a couple of hundred million!
And every one of those decisions were correct by bmw, they knew rover was a lame duck and incapable of putting cars together properly or building decent engines even after 100 years, so they were not gona suddenly decide to change, rovers were and always will be uber piles of shit built from low grade steel with poor engines
Rover were the first manufactua to use 2 grade steel and were the first electronically programmed fuel injected engines in 1989 but the head gaskets kept blowing cause the coolant system wasnt big enough
yr right about yr second opinion but clarckson did play a part in it by slaging there cars off even though he knows fuck all about cars and other people r to blame
caused Jeremy to mutate into the monster that helped cause the death of MG Rover and now irritates us into wanting to put a brick through the TV every Sunday?
they should've made an AWD version with Rover's V8 engine, that would've been exciting, a Rover 839
kernals12 3 days ago
What's the song at 2:13? Anyone know?
R33Racer 1 month ago
he said thrusting lol
kernals12 2 months ago
I think Rover would've been fine if they had kept the deal with Honda.
kernals12 3 months ago
Maybe the French, Germans and Americans were uninterested in the first Rover 800, but Richard and Hyacinth Bucket had it in all 5 series of Keeping Up Appearances.
COFfan1000 5 months ago
@COFfan1000 that was the earlier 1984 - 1989 Rover 200
KniGroup 2 months ago
Well Clarkson was very amateur on this early turn out. Just shows how if you stick at something you can become good at it.
matrixsenior 8 months ago
clarkson talking outta his backside....
the rover is the biggest car there and much better looking then the alfa
only the beemer there is as good as the 800
Mr69Deano 9 months ago
@Mr69Deano "biggest car there"??? do some research befroe you say silly things like that!
discocreator76 7 months ago
@discocreator76
I have, i`ve owned two 827 sterlings . they are much bigger then the others there,
and what research have you done to question me ?
Mr69Deano 7 months ago
@Mr69Deano They are narrower, shallower and lower than most of the other cars here. They may be ever so slightly longer than on or two of them but that's it. My research comes from a 1991 edition of "Whatcar" magazine who have a full specs and dimensions list in their guides.
discocreator76 7 months ago
What kind of car is the gray car sitting in from of the red BMW??
txrhavokj 9 months ago
@txrhavokj ... it's a Peugeot 605
dcanmore 8 months ago
The 800 is the ONLY rover I like.
Neutrinoghost 10 months ago
Clarkson before he morphed into a TWAT
watanabehefuml 11 months ago
R.I.P. the real Top Gear.
rallychamp2003 1 year ago
I don't know why, but I've always found the Rover 800 Coupe quite attractive.
VooDooXII 1 year ago 6
@VooDooXII they are a lovly looking car the coupe, i have too keep talking myself out of getting one for my next car, a lot of car for the money these days too also you might be interested in this video.
KniGroup 1 year ago
Rover R.I.P
dasgilde 1 year ago
Rover R.I.P
dasgilde 1 year ago
whats the song thats played at 05:30 reminds me of jethro tull.
DeanoTheLegend87 1 year ago
@DeanoTheLegend87 The song is Send Me An Angel by the Scorpions.
rallychamp2003 1 year ago
The Saab rules! Saab turbo way more exciting than Alfa's horrible engineering or BMW's finnicky electronics. Spyker saved SAAB! Long live SAAB!
surethang27 1 year ago 3
The old Legend and the Rover 800 were brilliant cars. Great engines, great performance, great style.
I buy a 800 a million times above a 75 ;)
FrightfulAccountant 1 year ago
ha ha ha ha old clarkson's got a tie on
vonchappell 2 years ago
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seriousbe 2 years ago
Surpirisingly good review from Clarkson there. I was expecting him to slag the car off. :P
theothertrainee 2 years ago
New top gear is a completely different show, much better but you can't really compare the 2, old top gear faded away beause boring old farts don't like change and insisted it stayed the same.
Now old guys, go and watch 5th Gear with a cup of tea and a biscuit while people who are NOT beige and have a sense of humour and the brains and energy to go out and test drive a car for themselves before they buy it enjoy the New Improved Top Gear format.
ultrasafe 2 years ago
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Perucho20ie 2 years ago
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Perucho20ie 2 years ago
He is a complete cock
gilesosborne2 2 years ago
well some of us prefer nice calm quite nice interesting fact based top gear like this used to be like and this is what and how top gear should always be like
SklBadGirlz 2 years ago 13
@SklBadGirlz I know mate, they go bike trekking through vietnam... as interesting as it is it has nothing to do with informative car purchasing..
Tait011 1 year ago
That review was filmed near my house. The dual carriageway at 2.22 is the A40 Witney Bypass.
symonh2000 2 years ago
are you kidding this is what Top Gear Should be like and should always have been like Top Gear should take a leaf out of 5th Gear Book and make a sensible intellegent motoring programme again and Top Gear Should be presented by Jeremy Clarkson Quentin Wilson Tiff Needel and Chris Goeffy get rid of Moron May and Hammy Hammond and make it like this again interesting and intellegent
SklBadGirlz 2 years ago 3
Prefer LOUD and entertaining, old top gear was watched by oldfarts that needed corks up theyr rears so they wouldnt leak gas...much
geijin 2 years ago
interiores chungas!!
michaelfcp 2 years ago
mas um dos carros mais comfortaveis, mesmo nas série 400
gentil79 2 years ago
I missed my sterling. Interior was convenient. Happy with my car now.
elchamber 2 years ago
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"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by BBC Worldwide Ltd"
I can still see it, so presumably it's only been pulled in the UK?
GeoffBlackmore 2 years ago
is it more of does Clarkson sound very public school in this? well northern public school anyway. Has he toned it down a bit over the years?
10jn19 2 years ago
"One of the bog players, Rover..."
Blimey!! It's been a while since Rover were ever that!
lewis72 2 years ago
It's been a while since Clarkson looked like that too!!
grumpyoldtwat1 2 years ago 3
What is the song at the end?
s9308354g 2 years ago
sounds like Europe
NZWolf2 2 years ago
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Perucho20ie 2 years ago
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Perucho20ie 2 years ago
@s9308354g
Scorpions - Send Me An Angel
It was hard to find out.
Perucho20ie 2 years ago
One of the best cars ever made, especially the 2.7. Lacked tourque!!! No Way, that's one of the reasons the police used them. Modern cars just don't cut it any more. They are disposable, characterless and a sea of plastic.
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Irvine5312x6ma 3 years ago
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Rover thought it was a classy touch to put a grille on every car they made. A classier touch would have been to build the big lump of crap behind the grille properly and to throw the shit K series engine away and use all japanese engines
ANDROSTURNER 3 years ago
The car didnt use the K series untill 1995. To be fair the head gasket issues on the KV6 wear not excuse but the Honda 2.7V6 lacked torque. A push bike was quicker then it.
sejin26 3 years ago
It was the Honda 2.5 V6 that was criticised for low torque, so it came out with the 2.7. IIRC, its 170bhp and about 177 lb.ft torque.
lewis72 2 years ago
What?? Clarkson likes a Rover???????
TheSaintST1 3 years ago 4
Im just guessing but i bet his review of it would be different today!
20PhantoM07 3 years ago
Did he call rover a 'Big player'?? come on when were they ever big players?
Monthagny 3 years ago
There you go you heard him say it, Jeremy Clarkson liked the Rover 800, I wonder what he would say about it now on that slapstick joke they call Top Gear now?
LiamOlf 3 years ago 2
I never understand how 'Jaguar' seems to escape BL but Rover always gets bogged down in it. Since when did ROVER put a grille on an Austin Allegro VDP?
andycarr75 3 years ago 5
Jeremy not being an ego-master! I still love his style even now though. I guess the BBC just doesn't care as much as they used to. Society changes, TV changes with it!
Oldschoolmetalnrock 3 years ago
Yes. Jezza probably didnt have a real ego back than, but his humor and charisma are timeless.
selmanadzovic 3 years ago 2
yea this was befor mr Clarckson became clever ass, I had a 7 year old Honda accord for 3 years, chore to drive/rust/cluncks and clancks/
& elec faults. bought a 7 year old 800 4 years ago,higher milage, best & most reliable car I;ve had,
and still a pleasure to drive!! puts the Honda to shame!!..........sorry
nosret 3 years ago
Jeeeeez!...he's still going on about the shape of the Alegro, just look at the shape of the Noddy cars on the road today!!?
nosret 3 years ago
leave the allegro alone for f*cks sake
nipperoid 3 years ago 2
my dad had three 820's. The last one (a Mk 2) died of death from a relay problem. Absolutely loved all three of them, the Mk 2 was the best though. Dont care what the posh Jeremy says, it was a solid car. Only car that can compare to it is the Land Rover Freelander. BTW, is it just me or do you just feel safer in the 820?
P.S: How Jeremy Clarkson has changed :P
burkezillar 3 years ago
What exactly was the problem with the Rover please?
Irvine5312x6ma 3 years ago
In the engine bay theres a box on the passenger side. It contains three (sometimes four) relays. Once the engine started it was fine. Then one relay would start flickering, the engine would start to splutter and it'd die. It was probably a problem with the EMU, but we never found out. Although I have seen the car since driving around perfectly. But the current owner has disgraced the car by putting a tow-bar on it :(
burkezillar 3 years ago
I see... my dad's Rover 820 (1995 model) is quite nicely hold due to my dad never leaving it out of service. It has 273,500 km written on, but still goes like if it were new. Shame about your dad's latest Rover, it is a gorgeous car to have, and to drive. That's all I can say about it...
Irvine5312x6ma 3 years ago
Yeah I know. I want my first car to be a Rover 820. But the insurance is alot more exspensive on the 820 than it is on the Rover 75. Which is weird but oh well lol
burkezillar 3 years ago
LOL, dream on kid.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
Telling you, got quoted £2,000 for the 820 on Third Party etc. I got quoted £1,500 for the 75. Third Party etc too
burkezillar 3 years ago
When I got my first car millions of years ago (lol), it was a 1981 ford fiesta in beige with a 1.1 litre engine and a top speed of about 70 mph, I bought the thing for £300 and I had to pay nearly £1500 insurance every year.
I now drive an audi A3 and pay £300 a year beacuse I am not an 18 year old who might speed and crash.
You always pay more when you are younger, so look at a smaller car for your first, then after two or three years, get the rover...just my advice...
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
Yeah I totally understand. But I was quoted around about £1,500 for a Renault Clio 1.2, the same as the Rover 75. So in my mind if I can run a bigger car (insurance wise) for the price of a smaller car, I will go for the bigger car. Plus I feel crippled in a small car. I'm quite tall so me and small spaces dont get on lol
burkezillar 3 years ago
They charge more for bigger cars these days, your best getting a used mk 2 focus if you want something larger..
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
Me dad had one. Hated it lol
burkezillar 3 years ago
LOL! I drove a Focus ST the other day, the thing flew lol
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
Ah yeah but I saw a Focus with STI on the side of it... not something I'd wanna be driving around. In both senses of the word! lol
burkezillar 3 years ago
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Irvine5312x6ma 3 years ago 2
My dad has this car, an 820Si Automatic, and it goes just as well as it did when he bought it, waaaay back in June 1995...yes it had some problems but, to be true, all the cars suffer when age goes on, and especially the newest cars (from 2002 onwards), which are full of electrics, are even more unreliable than the Rover 800 OR, at Least, equal...we aren't looking forward to get rid of the 820, we're gonna keep it as long as it is able to move!!! Besides, it's a joy to ride, and very beautiful!!
Irvine5312x6ma 3 years ago
Sadly the MK2 was a good car tarred with the same brush as the poor MK1.
I've looked long and hard at a T16 powered coupe and thought "Shall I or sharen't I?" The force is strong with that particular model.
TerraErro 3 years ago
The MkII 800's were much better than the MkI 800's.
AnthonyUK 3 years ago
After getting a VW Phaeton the Sterling now feels like it's made out of tinfoil and chopsticks. Nice seats, though.
sodoffb 3 years ago
The MK2 800 was a good car and to be honest fixed alot of the problem with the MK1.
The 75 is a good car but it's no 800, and yes it was out dated from it's launch just like the 600. The 800 was never out dated except for it's handerling. The 2.0 was the best in class, space was no Grandada beater but it had more then enough. Even ride and handerling was good till 96 when others moved the game on.
sejin26 3 years ago
mg is da best aint ad nank to beat me yet!
mace2005 4 years ago
The 2.7l Honda motor was a great engine.
duncan36 4 years ago
WOW
Jeremy clarkson praising a rover
armjos1 4 years ago
I have some old Top Gear's from this era and around 1997-1999 on tape which i would like to stick on Youtube.
But how do i go about doing that?
DeanoTheLegend87 4 years ago
Oh dear at 6.20, it really looked like an Helpscream from Rover when the music turns to say "Here I am", thats quite touching...
Dog328 4 years ago
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i had an 800 tickford last year, got sick of it, so broke it up and stock raced it. 800s really were utter shite
galaxychoc 4 years ago
Idiot, that 'was' a rare car, you could have sold it to an enthusiast for a decent amount of money.
kazimann 4 years ago
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If you bought a Rover 800 you're asking for flipping trouble!! Crap cars - helped killed Rover. The Rover 75 was the ONLY decent car that the modern day Rover produced. Dont try and compare it to the 800 rubbish... anyone who bought one of those knows NOTHING about cars...
nomiwilts 4 years ago
Rover 75's? You would have to be dead a long time before you would want one of them. They should have been built long before the Rover 800's. Look at a 75 and they have always looked so outdated from the begining, whereas the 800 was built with a style that still looks good today.
asbalna 4 years ago
The Rover 800 helped destroy Rover with its unreliability! True enough - if you dont like retro-styling - which the 75 has - stay away from the 75.... but at least it HAS style!
nomiwilts 4 years ago
my neigbour got his 75 when he was 75! Think i'll stick with the 800 for a few decades yet!
asbalna 4 years ago 2
Your 75 yr old neighbour obviously has taste... you could learn from him/her. Anyway good luck with your '800' - you're gonna need it!
nomiwilts 4 years ago
Lets just see who keeps there car the longest! First to sell/scrap/give it away loses!
asbalna 3 years ago
I sold my Rover 75 couple months ago - and taken up on the theory "if you cant beat 'em -join 'em!" and bought a brand new BMW 7 Series! - oh well....!
nomiwilts 3 years ago
Nice to hear from you again nomiwilts.
Thanks for being so honest with your car ownership update, I guess I won by keeping my car (should have my 800 coupe for some years yet). Enjoy your 7 series, that must be so stuffed with features, and all the buttons for them all! A bit to complex for me, but I bet the ride is good.
asbalna 3 years ago
To be honest with you my 75 had more features - electric folding mirrors, electric blind, TV - all that are expensive extras on the BMW. The BMW isnt as goodlooking as the 75 - drives better admittedly - but i'm still waiting for the MG or the 'Roewer' the Chinese are attempting to make! Good luck with the 800 - should be a classic soon if not already
nomiwilts 3 years ago
Thanks. Yes, those new ones should be nice, when they finally get here!
asbalna 3 years ago
Weirdly, the Germans and even the Italians liked the styling... It was the first Brit car to win the Golden Steering Wheel Award. Just days later Rover 75 was voted The Journal/AA Car of the Year. A panel of leading Italian and international automotive experts also declared the Rover 75 the World's Most Beautiful Automobile - High Class Saloon (1999 or 2000).. I can give you the sources to prove it.
TheSaintST1 3 years ago 2
What didn't help was that the design philosophy of the complete brand was allowed to soldier on for as long as it did - It's the same problem which occurred at Jaguar, although most of this was under Fords instruction. The MG brand was a reasonable breath of fresh air - but perhaps just too late. Anyway even if MGR had survived, the amount of pollution at the site would have sunk them even if the cashflow problem didn't.
TheSaintST1 3 years ago 3
Well if you bought an 800 - i'd stay out of the discussion if i were you and dont attempt to give your 'views'
nomiwilts 4 years ago
I thought this video was for a 'Rover 800 Review'! Obviously I got it wrong! Anyway hows your sad 'OLD' 75 doing? Have you sold it yet? I've still got my 800 Coupe. and I'm keeping it.
asbalna 3 years ago
these cars are great i brought 1 for £250 and its better than any corsa or shatso my mates have got
aliboy82 4 years ago 4
Alfa 164 lol
leofurleigh 4 years ago
For me, The Rover 800 is just about the nicest car ever. What is it with these 'car snobs' Rover always have made really great cars.
dekedude 4 years ago 10
this is gr8 Clarkson had hair back then well done cheers for posting miss old top gear
ChavetteRudeGirl 4 years ago 2
my dad owns a rover 800 and its a great car!
Nickkyboy36 4 years ago 3
I miss my old 800, I paid £350 for it, did 40,000 miles in 2 years for 2 tyres and 1 oilchange then got most of my money back on ebay ;¬)
I'd like to try the same in a '91 Alpha
if there were any left ...
RedHunter500 4 years ago 3
Superb video - thanks for finding this. Some of the classic Clarkson trademarks are already there; the reluctance to cling to the old review format ("you don't want to see in there, do you..."), and the snap decision at the end, irrationally ignoring the rest of the review... Brilliant. And yes, I drive an Alfa Romeo 164, though I'm not sure if it touches my erogenous zones! -Alex
alexshepherd 4 years ago
Since when did 'Rover' put a grille on an Austin Allegro VDP?
Rover was part of the Jaguar Rover Triumph devision of BL.
andycarr75 4 years ago
Like i say dont listen to clarckson he knos fuck all hes just a tosser like he thinks cars without rear tortion bars r better but they r not cause the whells can snap off without a tortion bar in a big impact to them, in no this cause i work in a garege and the fact of the matter is we hardly get rover we get french cars, vw's and fiats
hamster639 3 years ago
Jeremy's hair is HUGE!!!!!
bodieofci5 4 years ago
i was about 7 yrs old last time i watched this)
chrisofthetube 4 years ago
Ive got this on video except its a bit tatty now
Good to see it again. nov 91 it would have been .
px4t5s5 4 years ago
Thankyou very much for telling us the Date of First use, its a shame tapes dont last well over the years
KniGroup 4 years ago
Clarkson is indeed the best host of Motor Show.... till now I think Top Gear is nice due to him... as compared to 5th Gear...(too bad, in our country, we do not have this show)
jamesjon40 4 years ago
Actually, Mr Clarkson did not cause the demise of Rover. Rover did that for themselves. BMW gave the Phoenix Consortium almost £1bn to develop new cars. What did they do? Give themselves pay rises and spend 20p on giving the cars new shaped headlights and a shiny grille.
8637paul 4 years ago
BMW caused the demise!! They robbed the Mini project, sold off Land Rover and left them with cars that were already 5 years old. The £1bn wasnt given in money, it was given in assets like unsold cars, property, land. They gave them only £500m which these days isnt enough to develop a car as well as keeeping a company afloat. BMW wouldn't be in the situation it is today if it wasnt for Rover.
jamesukksa 4 years ago 3
No. BMW didn't give £1 billion. They LENT Rover group five hundred million, a load of unsold old Rover 200/400s (the 25 and 45 were out) and longbridge. What it kept and sold on was Rover's R&D centre, kept MINI, kept the Rover 45 replacement and sold off LR. BMW also sold the engine making part of Rover back to Rover at the cost of a couple of hundred million!
andycarr75 4 years ago 2
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And every one of those decisions were correct by bmw, they knew rover was a lame duck and incapable of putting cars together properly or building decent engines even after 100 years, so they were not gona suddenly decide to change, rovers were and always will be uber piles of shit built from low grade steel with poor engines
galaxychoc 4 years ago
The P5 would like a word ¬__¬
greenslave2 4 years ago
Rover were the first manufactua to use 2 grade steel and were the first electronically programmed fuel injected engines in 1989 but the head gaskets kept blowing cause the coolant system wasnt big enough
hamster639 3 years ago 2
yr right about yr second opinion but clarckson did play a part in it by slaging there cars off even though he knows fuck all about cars and other people r to blame
hamster639 3 years ago
Maybe this video enticed BMW to buy the Rover brand???
LiamOlf 4 years ago
Hmm, Top Gear has changed a bit since then hasn't it?!
bassgodtraining 5 years ago
Anyone know What year this is? 1993??
brownda7 5 years ago
The 800 is on a J plate which is 1991
KniGroup 5 years ago
interesting...if only for the historical value
6Michael6 5 years ago
Its nice too see how things have changed, i hope the BBC doesn't try getting this taken down...
KniGroup 5 years ago
never seen mr clarkson wearing a tie before.
selkent 5 years ago
caused Jeremy to mutate into the monster that helped cause the death of MG Rover and now irritates us into wanting to put a brick through the TV every Sunday?
populardentistry 5 years ago
lol true he only likes super cars if u want true fact james may is the brainy 1
hamster639 3 years ago
this is an ok movie
411thehood 5 years ago