Rover 75

What's a early-thirties man doing with an "old-man's" car ? More importantly, why did he spend his own readies rather than company money on a Rover 75 just over a year ago? Simple, this car has style and it has class and this is the return to where Rover used to be before even I was a twinkle in my mum and dad's eyes. I've always admired the company and unlike many people, I've taken the trouble to read up on them rather than rely on what the man in the pub says. Rover based the 75 on the first post-war car it made called the P4 75, hence the styling cues from an era where Rover made well-engineered cars using the most ...  Read the complete review

A few months ago rover dealerships were offering the crazy deal of a 24 hour road test with unlimited mileage. All I had to do was arrange temporary comprehensive insurance through my broker, which surprisingly didn't cost anything extra. So armed with my temporary cover note and my driving licence I marched into the showroom one Friday morning to claim my prize. Yep, they hadn't been joking, 'here's the car', they said, 'its brimming with petrol - go play with it'(or words to that effect). Well it would have been rude not to, surely.... I had arranged the test drive to coincide with a trip (from Sheffield) to St. Albans and back in a ...  Read the complete review

There's a personnel crisis going on at the Slough factory of a well-known paperclip manufacturer. The production manager has called head office. He needs an expert to solve the problem, and he'll need to arrive in the sort of car that makes the right impact of course. It will have to be an executive charger; something smart, dynamic, thrusting. A car that says they're the sort of person who stays in the office late and doesn't run off home for their tea. The transport should be sufficiently suave and sophisticated to give our executive that polished look, be comfortable and relaxing and come with all mod cons. Some might say that ...  Read the complete review

ROVER 75 I went along with a friend to test drive this car which undoubtedly looks from the outside very like the Jag. I was prepared to like this car because of its looks but once inside I changed my mind very quickly. The leather seats in the top of the range don’t feel like real leather and the dash, well Woolsey eat your heart out. My friend was convinced this was her car and couldn’t understand what was wrong with me, why I didn’t like it. She ran very well quite quiet in fact, and it was nothing I could actually put my finger on, I just didn’t like it. To me this is an old, no let me correct that mature persons car who ...  Read the complete review

I took one of these cars home for the weekend from work. It looked the business. It looks like a Jaguar S type and in a dark colour (black, navy or green) it looks like a very sleek, executive vehicle. The interior was all decked out in wood veneer, but the cloth seats looked cheap and tacky. The car I took home only had 13000 miles on the clock and already it was starting to fall to pieces! The door trims were coming off, one door handle was loose and the upholstery looked all bitty and as if it had seen better days. Now I know that fleet cars are treated really badly, but at 13k you expect it still to all be sticking together! This rover needs very high ...  Read the complete review