MG-Rover What Could of Been

MG Rover Models that never made it off the drawing board because MGR closed

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Autos & Vehicles

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• mg
• rover
• 75
• zt
• zr
• zs
• power
• sv
• concept

[anbrjd]

What could HAVE been. Not OF.

[mhorsburgh1]

Does it really matter how it's reads the whole point is the video which you seem to of missed totally, you seem more interested in pulling my grammar apart.

Are you an english teacher or someone who just doesn't get out much.

[wolfgang1953]

to you it may not matter - but if you want to be taken seriously and for your views to have real credibility, it is good to be able to speak and write correctly - after all, none of us would want a new MG 'wivt them daws not hung proper', would we?

[mhorsburgh1]

the point of the video is not my bad grammar or spelling but what the british public have lost because of the fact we keep buying crap euro boxes

[70Mack]

Its is a great great shame,very sad.The mistake was selling to BMW and not Honda.Had it sold to Honda Iam pretty damn sure Rover's would still be being made in Birmingham.

[hamster700]

its fair to mention that the qashqai/uality is buit here plus the Nubira was designed here

[discocreator76]

@hamster700 If you could speak reasonable English, then I'd take you seriously, but as you sound like a demented Iraki, I can't...

[sparkygl0s]

Any competent artist can draw a good looking car. Turning it into reality takes a bit more.

[hamster700]

I am america so i would want to drive american it should be the same in for you limeys surely you want to drive a british such as rover but limeys prefer to drive toyotas and stuff and they wonder why volume automobile manufacturers have gone down the shithole

[thedeadstig123]

haha i dont count, i drive a reliant rebel, still british :) lol

[MrNickcafc]

name another manufacturer that can squeeze 103bhp out of a n/a 1.4 petrol engine

[jmorkey]

Sad as we all know Rover Triumph etc etc built some world beating cars and were the first with so many inovations yet we didn't back the idiology and let the Unions crucify the firm... Even the much maligned TR7 from the seventies was let down by them as you look around today it seems it really was the shape of things to come with it's swage lines. and comfortable sports cars... all the same excellent video on missed oppurtunities and our own Brit bashing

[DisasterForScotland]

I've owned MG's and Rovers - brilliant cars. My ZT-T was probably the best car I'll ever own. I was upset when they went under, but not half as much as when I saw Clarkson hosting 'Have I got news for You' that week, guffawing away at MGR's collapse.

2 problems though - the P4 seemed more interested in ludicrous fantasy projects like the V8 and SV, and, more importantly, they didn't have any mates in the government. Witness Mandelson and Jaguar. He couldn't stop throwing money at them!

[ianblue100]

I have owned Minis,Maxis and Rovers. My latest a Rover 45 is brilliant quiet comfortable and very well built 96000 faultless miles. Its easy to blurt out Rovers are crap. In the seventies when loads of people ran out and bought Datsuns proclaiming they had to buy Japanese to get a decent car they very quickly all collapsed in a pile of rust!

Many people in this country rubbished Rover . Clarkson, when he heard Rover had gone and all its workforce thrown on the scrapheap said "GOOD"

[craigybus1]

@mhorsburgh1 K series engine head gasket failure, KV6 piston liners working loose and general crapness of anything that came from MGR. People bought other brands simply because they didn't want a car that fell apart 30 seconds after it left the forecourt, and was worth more than 10p at trade in time. You wont like this, but Rovers were crap, and at least 10 years behind the competition. It all went wrong when the links with Honda were cut. That was the beginning of the end.