Which is your favourite Rover and why?
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rover__dan
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Its got to be a rover 220 gti or gsi turbo,it just looks sweet!
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Rover 220 gti turbo and the 220 gsi turbo i just love the look of them and the drive and plus i have both.
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Hi for me it has to be the Rover 220 gsi/gti turbo i just love the looks and the drive + i have both :)
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
One personality for each car then ; )
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ChronoCabal
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Metro GTi!!!
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I just loved my Rover SD1 Vanden Plas V8. I wish I still had it. Jet black and massive spoiler and wheels.
I got an MG ZS V6 180 at the mo and I really like it, the engine is so sweet and the handling is great. The sound system is not good but hey....
I got an MG ZS V6 180 at the mo and I really like it, the engine is so sweet and the handling is great. The sound system is not good but hey....
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Its a toss up between the Coupe turbo and a 220GSI. Purely for how much they look like any other "boring old Rover" as I once got told by a friend. But once they are fired up and going its a completely different tune that is played. Still, even after all the logger my VI has thrown at me I still love them as well.
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Scott Stephen
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
SD1 V8 Vitesse ... Miles ahead of its time on paper... but, as with most Rovers poor execution :(
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
it's a joint one for me.! the MG Montego turbo for me (my first turbo'd car) & the 620ti. cant decide which one to pick put the best.!!
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
My white coupe turbo series 1, but i really want a 3dr gsi turbo.
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
any aslong as there break
got to say i do miss me 420gsi tourer was a good work van
got to say i do miss me 420gsi tourer was a good work van
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
got to be 220gsi and gti turbo i ve had over 50 coupes u cant beat a hatch
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Mine would have to be a maestro turbo, in a SE guise, something like a vaden plas turbo if there was such a thing.... :whistle:
Or a saloon ZS which I think would be the only other shell my engine would be transplanted into.
Or a saloon ZS which I think would be the only other shell my engine would be transplanted into.
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got a saloon shell zs 180 with v5 im about to cut in half offers can deliver
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
mk1 metro! mg/austin not a rover i suppose.. but close
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Best rover ever is definitely the 220 gsi/gti turbo or 216 for different reasons the turbo speaks for its self fast drop dead gorgeous great handling _______ reliability very rare. And the 216 is all of above plus the Honda engine will take loads of stick and never break down (about 7 years ago my friends scraped one I towed the car for him about 5 miles he red lined it most of the way and couldn't blow it up absolutely amazing). It's just my opinion but the 3 door hatch definitely look better than the coupe the coupe has a phat donkey boy hope not to controversial
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My computer replaced a*s with donkey boy
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Coupe turbo in tahiti blue with ash grey leathers, ph1 front :D First (and only) rover that i have even come close to liking. Even though I'm not usually one to like an FF car being into the drift scene it really calls to me. LOVE the styling, LOVE the power and LOVE the handling. Also name one other car that you can get as cheap as a coupe turbo that even comes close to it in the power stakes. Not just my favorite rover ever, but possibly my favorite car ever bar mk2 Toyota mr2 and a good ol' s13! that might change if I ever get round to converting a coupe to RWD ;) :D I can only dream....
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
CityRover, as it's the PINNACLE of Anglo-Indian engineering.....
Or maybe a nice late SD1 Vitesse in Moonraker Blue, Manual gearbox. Or flame red.... Actually ANY colour.
Or maybe a nice late SD1 Vitesse in Moonraker Blue, Manual gearbox. Or flame red.... Actually ANY colour.
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
1948 P3 75 Sports. I took mine to Germany in 1963, It was a one previous owner with 65,000 on the clock. It was green with green leather interior, fitted Automatic Chassis Lubrication, Selectaride suspension, electrically pumped Smiths Jackall and, of course, the obligatory Freewheel. The family I was staying with had a Mercedes 170S and the grandfather said, "It's a pity the Mercedes isn't built as well as Barrie's Rover!!" Ah! What might have been.
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Obviously I'm biased but I'm gonna plump for the 600Ti, looks like any other 600 to the untrained eye and leaves boy racers with a pure look of shock in your rear view mirror.
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
for me in this order 220 hatch gsi , 220 coupe , 420 tourer , sd1 , then mg"s montego turbo and the zr
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
200,400,600,800,mg zs,mg zr, zt, mg sv , mg tf ...when i win lottery ... i will have them all :D
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
620 Ti (my user name is a bit of a clue). It is a real Q-car; looks understated, goes really well and is always fun to drive. The 800 Coupe Vitesse is a beautiful car but the trick is to find a good one. Good ones are even rarer than a good Ti. The 75/MG ZT has better quality build than the Ti but looks too retro. The ideal would be 75/ZT technology in a 600 shell.
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
My favourite production Rover is the MG ZR MK2 160 in Ignition Blue :P
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
my fave rover is the 800 vitesse saloon
will have another one day should have kept my Tahiti one
still my zs will keep me amused for a while then will go into storage once I lay my hands on a tidy vitty
Rob
will have another one day should have kept my Tahiti one
still my zs will keep me amused for a while then will go into storage once I lay my hands on a tidy vitty
Rob
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220 Coupe for sure....
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Before I got my ZT 1.8T, I would have to say the SD1 Vitesse or Vanden Plas then my MG Maestro 2.0 EFi but these 75s / ZT are such good cars - I always look back after I get out - never done that with a car before !
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
I've not driven that many, but once my 25 had SDI injectors and a remap, I was hooked! I'm not a fast driver but it's nice having the power when you need it.
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
there's 3 that I like . p5b coupe 3.5 v8 . sd1 v8 phase 2 . and 220 coupe turbo . I've had the last 2 would love to own a p5b coupe .
regards Darryl .
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I'd love a p5b coupe its on the list of must own rovers for me..
Alot would have to change for that to happen though.
Alot would have to change for that to happen though.
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Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Is this the thread all the under 25 posters fornicate is is?
Re: Which is your favourite Rover and why?
Has to be my JCG sworks mini, followed by the two coupes I had sold regretted and now in need of another in my life 



