Back in the nineties I used to read about my favourite car manufacturers in the various different car magazines. It wouldn’t take much time before I’d come across a scathing critic of Rover. It was a pretty common occurrence for Rover...
In the late 1970s a race to build powerful front wheel drive hatchbacks started out of the blue. The VW Golf GTI had turned the world of fast cars on its head. No longer did you need a two seater sports...
British Leyland (owned by the UK government) had no funding for niche sports cars and needed mainstream models that would sell in volume. To kill two birds with one stone, British Leyland stopped production of the MGB and MG Midget and...
At the start of the 1990s a steady stream of Japanese coupes reached the UK car market. Exciting new cars like the Nissan 200sx, Toyota Celica and Honda Prelude all vyed for attention. Both Vauxhall and Ford had managed to keep...
The Metro had the most difficult follow up since the second Godfather film. By 1977 the Mini was really quite old and British Leyland were reviewing designs for a replacement. The utilitarian Metro was launched in 1980, intending to replace one...
Imagine a fight between Batman, The Terminator, Predator and Chuck Norris. The same fight was happening when Rover entered the Coupe market in 1993. The Rover was up against serious opposition, the likes of which remain landmark cars to this day....
