any one have a rover car?

[Kapitan]

does any one own a rover if so what type

me and my dad have two one is the 820si (which has the 827 engine in it) and the other the 416si

the 820si has the 2.7litre 2724cc engine with sport injection

the 416si has the 1.6litre 1596cc engine with sport injection

there the two me and my dad have any one have any others?

[jumpy]

I used to have a 216gsi auto until some ***t crashed into it outside my house and wrote it off then drove away without telling/stopping. The car was a G reg (1990) with 70000 miles on the clock... that honda engine and gearbox was in mint conditioin too, shame my insurance company was only willing to give the 'current market value' of the car - 600 quid according to them - which was nice considering it was insured for £1200.00
Needless to say they only gave me the 600, then 4 months later I got a letter from the driver vehicle licensing agency to say that I had parked my car on a public road without road tax (lookout for the fine) after the insurance company had taken it away to be scrapped- some tosser was still driving about down south in it with my name on all the documents, even though it was meant to be registered with the insurance company as a writeoff- as it was nolonger my vehicle.

[Kapitan]

ack thats not good.

my rover 820 was in a small car park leaving when this guy in a mercades reversed back without looking and smashed straight into me near side wing

put nice dent in both the door and wing and buggerd the central locking.

now 820 series is gold dust a door is over £800 and the front panel more than £750 the market value before the crash was £1200 and now sits around £750

i was well annoyed and luckily my dad was there or id have realy laid into him because i love the car so much its like my little baby and its hurt

[I-25]

well ive got a VW bug with the original 1600cc engine and i have NOT IDEA why it still runs i have beat the crap out of it in every imaginable way! :rotfl:

[bradclark1]

Mexico still makes the original Bugs don't they?

Brad

[I-25]

Originally Posted by bradclark1

Mexico still makes the original Bugs don't they?

Brad

well.... not production but you can still order them from agency.

but mine is a 1970 german bug

[Torpedo Fodder]

Originally Posted by bradclark1

Mexico still makes the original Bugs don't they?

Brad

No, production ended in 2003, but I think they still make spare parts.

Fun fact: the final original Beetle built became a museum piece, much the same way the final Oldsmobile built (an Olds Alero) did.

[XabbaRus]

They don't make Oldsmobile any more?

That sucks....get rid of Saturn not Olds.

[Torpedo Fodder]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

They don't make Oldsmobile any more?

GM killed the brand in 2004 (they had annouched they would be phasing out the brand back in 2000), and the product line gap left by Olds' demise is to be filled by Buick and Pontiac.

Real shame, Olds was such a distinguished marque (the oldest in the world after Daimler and Peugot), and second only in GM's lineup to Cadillac. Most of their later cars were quite good. I actually drove an Alero once as a courtesy car while my own ride was in for body work, and it was one of the nicest compacts I've ever been in; very upscale, comfortable interior, good handling, and the upper-end versions with the optional V6 had quite a bit of zip as well.

[Type941]

Olds made this concept in 97 http://www.prn.ee/ajuvant/wallpaper/97oldalero.jpg - alero... Had the top 'brains' over there had the will to do this, they would have had a decent looking car. I'm sorry, I haven't seen any good looking from the US car industry in decades. I can pretty much name 2-4 cars that look good, and they are mostly all concepts still...

[Torpedo Fodder]

Originally Posted by Type941

Olds made this concept in 97 http://www.prn.ee/ajuvant/wallpaper/97oldalero.jpg - alero... Had the top 'brains' over there had the will to do this, they would have had a decent looking car. I'm sorry, I haven't seen any good looking from the US car industry in decades. I can pretty much name 2-4 cars that look good, and they are mostly all concepts still...

I'm thinking mainly of function over form; After all, almost nobody disses BMW for having some of the blandest styling in the history of automobiles .

[Godalmighty83]

i have a 1.4 R-reg 200 (bubble shape) and a 97 1.3 mpi mini cooper which is a work in progress-

(iam a mechanic by trade)


1330cc engine
stage 3 sports head - large exhaust and inlet valves, double valve spring, port and polished, balanced chambers, 1.5:1 roller rockers.
full sports exhaust system (3 branch manifold)
K&N replacement filter (not a 'lose your power' cone)
manual fuel pressure regulator
metro turbo clutch.

88.54bhp @ 5640 rpm

the MPI's need a sports ECU to get above 90bhp regardless of what other tuning has been done.

and no, i havent installed a bloody sports cam, unlike many i actually like my cars to have an idle speed.

[Type941]

Originally Posted by Torpedo Fodder

I'm thinking mainly of function over form; After all, almost nobody disses BMW for having some of the blandest styling in the history of automobiles .

Ok, I'm by far not a BMW fan, but to compare the styling of BMW to the people mobile boxes that GM/Ford produced in the 90s in the US is blasphemy. BMW has made some damn good looking cars in that period, notably the E34, E39 and E36. Those were gorgeous cars, an iron fist in hugo boss suit. VEry proportional, agressive looking, and it's unfortunate that they were mostly driven around by arseholes who dissed the others on the road. But to compare something like an M3 E36 style or Even E46 to some Oldsmobile... I'm lost. The Bangle designed Beemers aren't for everyone, but at least they are different and have a style. The 'function over form' approach might be great in 1930s in Ford T. But comon. American's used to be leaders in design, they built fantastic cars in the 'golden age of capitalism' - 50s and 60s. Than from 80s onwards, it's downhill - boxy, all look alike cars, absolutely no character - just people carriers. I drove quite a few of those - I worked for a car dealership, and the tradeins I had were very colourful. I've driven a LOT of american and european cars through work, and there's very few i actually liked. Yes, I prefer the Audis to anything else, and Audi's aren't cheap, but I liked them since the mid 80s. The looked the real deal, the coupe quattros. Sorry, no way this form over funtction can justrify the crap they made in the states in 80s and 90s for mass cars (I don't refer to Corvettes, Vipers, Mustangs (ehem) and such).