Don't Crash Your Rover 100/ Metro @ 40mph....

[martc]

blah blah British rubbish blah blah splendid Germanic blah

 

Should probably add at this juncture how it should be done. IIRC the Cash + Carry was the safest vehicle ever tested by EuroNCAP when it was brought to market. Well done brainy automotive engineers.

 

 

 

Qashqai - Britischer Architekt

[Eddie Honda]

teresa may

 

Ah yes, Teresa May. I see what you did there:

 

[Lacquer Peel]

I'd let her something something Hard Brexit.

[Craig the Princess]

She could trigger my article 50 in under 3 minutes

[Braddon81]

 

Crash safety? Everything is relative to the cars abilities and situation. No car new or old is totally safe in a smash. The Metro was safe enough for its day and age. Just like a Mk6 Golf is....but if you do drive like a twat...this will always happen....

[Dick Cheeseburger]

 

Can't believe she was born in '69.

[Junkman]

I rather get killed in my P6 V8 and have lived, than survive in some newfangled globaltosh and continue a miserable shitty little life that wasn't worth living in the first place.

[Guest Lord Sward]

I was selling new Metros, sorry 100s, at the time of NCAP.  Sure it didn't help sales, but then there was already a 15 week waiting list.  Even when we sold out of stocks, we had an astonishing number of older folk wanting a new for S reg (Aug 1998).  Rover didn't convert these sales to 200s.  They just went and bought KIAs or Hyundais.  

 

So NCAP compare a very old, dated, unfashionably small and slow selling British mini for a much larger, new Chinese Supermini. You could fit a 100-series into the boot of a new Jazz.  As pointed out, like for like would be a Punto or Polo.  

 

At that time, the 100 was a FIAT 500 rival. Which failed the just just as bad.

[New POD]

Given that I spent quite a lot of my early adulthood, travelling on an RD350LC wet or dry or icy, I like to compare my crash safety in any motor vehicle to that.

[alcyonecorporation]

I can did an joke [see above]