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Title: NEW CAR
Post by STMO123 on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:04

Thought I'd seen (or heard) of most cars but I never Knew that they'd put a 4.6l V8 into a Rover 75, and I definately didn't know you could still grab one new. (Well,not used anyway)

http://www.evanshalshaw.com/specialoffers/specialoffers.asp?category=1&drpType=&search=true&drpMaxPrice=0&drpMinPrice=0&make=&y=6&x=17&navwindow=1&view=10

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by TheBoy on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:05

Yeah, quite rare, RWD as well....

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by tunnie on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:07

Think they added it a short time after MG did it?

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by STMO123 on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:09

Yeah,but,whats the point? They must have had to uprate the gearbox,suspension,tyresetc.etc So, its a ZT :-?

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by TheBoy on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:14

I think the Rover engineers did a proper job from what I've heard - doing what they wanted to do with 75, and not what BMW wanted them to do. As said, RWD, different gearbox, 18" wheels, uprated brakes...

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by STMO123 on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:16

Well,Jaime,they cant have done a very good job advertising the fact because,as I said, never heard of it.

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by tunnie on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:18

more cash spent wisely on a company that was on the edge

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by TheBoy on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:21

STMO123 wrote on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:16:

Well,Jaime,they cant have done a very good job advertising the fact because,as I said, never heard of it.

Yeah, I had. I remember one of the postal mailings, and some mag adverts, used that rower bloke who won the medals...

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by TheBoy on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:22

Only released a few months before they went tits up...

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by tunnie on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:37

just browsed for MG ZT's.... they very cheap!

Autotrader result:

2003 52 Reg MG ZT 1.8 T 160 +
4 Doors, Manual, Saloon, Petrol, 82,000 miles

£4,800

Buy it, now and when MG's go back into production parts will be back again....

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by STMO123 on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:55

As far as I remember, the only MG that MIGHT go back into production is the MGTF. The Chinese want a nice little british sports car to produce. They'll go down a bomb I'm sure! :D

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by STMO123 on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:58

If anyone needs genuine MG parts, you can get them here

http://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/pdf/mgrover/MG%20Rover%20Popular%20Parts.pdf

Not cheap!

Title: Re: NEW CAR
Post by Andy B on 15. Aug 2006 at 21:13

TheBoy wrote on 15. Aug 2006 at 20:14:

One little thing spoils it when you open the bonnet! An oval with F0rd in the middle sitting on the plenum chamber staring you in the face. :( I'd want a Rover version if they'd done one rather than the carbon fibre go-faster MG version that they actually produced. It would have been a successor to the last proper in house designed & built Rover P5B (A coupe would have been nice :) )
http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?r40ztef.htm