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STMO123 Ex Member Gender:	NEW CAR 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=&...
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: NEW CAR Reply #1 - 15. Aug 2006 at 20:05 Yeah, quite rare, RWD as well....
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: NEW CAR Reply #2 - 15. Aug 2006 at 20:07 Think they added it a short time after MG did it?
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STMO123 Ex Member Gender:	Re: NEW CAR Reply #3 - 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
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: NEW CAR Reply #4 - 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...
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STMO123 Ex Member Gender:	Re: NEW CAR Reply #5 - 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.
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: NEW CAR Reply #6 - 15. Aug 2006 at 20:18 more cash spent wisely on a company that was on the edge
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: NEW CAR Reply #7 - 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...
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: NEW CAR Reply #8 - 15. Aug 2006 at 20:22 Only released a few months before they went tits up...
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: NEW CAR Reply #9 - 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....
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STMO123 Ex Member Gender:	Re: NEW CAR Reply #10 - 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!
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STMO123 Ex Member Gender:	Re: NEW CAR Reply #11 - 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!
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Reply #12 - 15. Aug 2006 at 21:13

TheBoy wrote 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...

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. Sad

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

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http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?r40ztef.htm

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