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Nigel first entered the world of automotive journalism in the mid-80s, working for what was then the “bible” of weekly automotive content - Motoring News. Those were the days of tip-tap typewriters, ...
Ever Since I Bought A Rover 3500 Online, We Have A New Policy At My House: No Ebay While Drinking.On a fateful night last June, a mere one-and-a-half glasses of syrah deep into an otherwise uneventful ...
Thirty years ago, Rover (or, rather, British Leyland) produced one of the best British cars ever designed. Sadly, this car was also one of the worst British cars ever made - made in the sense of ...
When it arrived on the automotive scene in 1976, the Rover SD1 caused nothing short of a sensation. Combining hints of Ferrari Daytona styling with a range capable engines and a spacious interior that ...
Welcome to Forgotten Cars, where we highlight fascinating cars and engines that are obscure, unrecognized and lost to the passage of time. I have a kind of sick interest in Rovers. Last week, I ...
The story of the Rover SD1 is a fascinating, bittersweet one. It was a car designed to single handedly replace two very popular saloons in the British Leyland empire, the Rover P6 and Triumph 2000, a ...
The range-topping version of the SD1 was built for luxury, not performance, despite the S badge. This is the oldest known survivor Dr. Andrew Roberts is a cinema and motoring historian whose writing ...
When the Rover SD1 project was born in 1971, Leyland was in trouble. Few if any of its models were returning a profit, much of its dealer network was threatening to defect to rival brands and the ...
The panel gaps on this example are good, but in some cars that came off the line buyers could see daylight peeking through the door frames. Assembly quality was on par with British Leyland of the day, ...