Rover Streetwise why so expensive?

[95 quid Peugeot]

For some mad reason been looking at Streetwise diesels, why are the so expensive. At least 2 possibly 3 times what I paid for the 55 plate Rover 75

[SiC]

Small car that's a giffers favourite I'd hazard a guess. British built car, with an economical engine and durable/collision hiding bumpers.

[Cavcraft]

Because they've got style that could give you whiplash. That's why. Now STFU and buy one.

[Ghosty]

With steels!

[AMC Rebel]

Scene tax, innit.  Kids are buying 'em so they can slam em into da weedz by fitting standard 25 springs etc.

 

Funny how Rover forsaw the Juke/Qashqai craze but still didn't managed to cash in somehow.

[Pillock]

I believe the phrase is "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory". It applies to BL on so many levels.

[Asimo]

I believe the phrase is "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory". It applies to Britain on so many levels.

 EFA

 

Anyway, Streetwises: even I have been considering one, and I hate hatchbacks and Diesel engines. I'll take a three door in yellow please.

 

PS Do the roof bars come off easily?, they'd have to go.

[vulgalour]

 

[Faker]

Please don't all turn on me and start sending hate mail!!!

 

I think these look very smart with the ride height tweaked...

 

All pinched from google

[Dave_Q]

£5 here for the first person to streetwisify a ZR by raising the suspension.

[TRW]

£5 here for the first person to streetwisify a ZR by raising the suspension.

 

Hmmmmm........

 

She would kill me.

 

I could always blame it on Colin (or WilsonWilson)

[sierraman]

I was reading the craptical plastics guide to the MG ZR on holiday, I don't know where they get their prices from but they reckoned for a really good one you'd be looking at £4000. Fuck off!!! Who's paying four large for a Rover 45?!

 

It did however convince me that I want one.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well I like one and nearly bought two at once as they were new and very cheap. Then I came to my senses and got one over priced Fiesta....

[twosmoke300]

I was reading the craptical plastics guide to the MG ZR on holiday, I don't know where they get their prices from but they reckoned for a really good one you'd be looking at £4000. Fuck off!!! Who's paying four large for a Rover 45?!

 

It did however convince me that I want one.

Zr=25

Zs=45

Zt=75

[Ghosty]

Funny how Rover forsaw the Juke/Qashqai craze but still didn't managed to cash in somehow.

 

Renault did too: the Koleos. Unfortunately they're shit.

[Supernaut]

Please don't all turn on me and start sending hate mail!!!

 

I think these look very smart with the ride height tweaked...

 

All pinched from google

 

Now I want to see a Rover 200 BRM with Streetwise bumpers.

[Supernaut]

Renault did too: the Koleos. Unsurprisingly for a Renault, they're shit.

 

FTFY

[TRW]

I was reading the craptical plastics guide to the MG ZR on holiday, I don't know where they get their prices from but they reckoned for a really good one you'd be looking at £4000. Fuck off!!! Who's paying four large for a Rover 45?!

 

It did however convince me that I want one.

 

Oops.

 

I'm that much of a mentalist that I would pay that much for a 45.

 

Or a rusty 618 without no MOT, but only if FAT KEV had sat in it.

[Lacquer Peel]

Scene tax, innit. Kids are buying 'em so they can slam em into da weedz by fitting standard 25 springs etc.

 

Funny how Rover forsaw the Juke/Qashqai craze but still didn't managed to cash in somehow.

Not really. They foresaw sales successes* like the Polo Dune and C3 XTR.

[Snipes]

I recall seeing a slightly soupe-up zr for sale with "streetwise kit". They look good lowered.

[Hendry]

its funny how now ZRs are so highly regarded, because when they were new/current/recent i knew quite a few people who spent fortunes on brand new/couple of year old ones and sate they hated them, they were rattly, tinny, pieces of junk and got rid of them in quick time, but yet now they are raved about, is it because the expectation of them has lowered as theyve got cheaper? ie for a £10grand brand new car they are crap but for a £500 banger theyre brilliant?

 

i remember in 2007 while working for Arnie Clark Citroen/Fiat we got quite a few Streetwises traded in and they always sold very quickly and were quite popular, infact all variants of the R3 (25, ZR, Streetwise) sold very quickly.

 

Ive never owned one but almost bought an 04 plate ZR105+ in August 06 for £6988, realised i couldnt afford it and so almost bought a cheaper one, trophy blue 105+ on a 52 plate, lovely looking wee car, £4488, but my insurer wanted £280 a month to swap the insurance from a 1.6 mk3 Astra i was paying £140 a month for, so double insurance, so that idea got binned, but no way £4000 for a good one these days, thatd buy 3 minters now surely?

[J-T]

Please don't all turn on me and start sending hate mail!!!

 

I think these look very smart with the ride height tweaked...

 

All pinched from google

Bloody hell, that grey one looks the nuts!!

 

I've always been put off these because in about 1999 my dad bought 93 Impreza WRX, which to a 12 yr old me was about as good as life got. Unfortunately he wasn't banking on 20mpg from it, so it got swapped....for a bubble shape rover 200 with the 1.4 8v kseries donk....in amaranth! To say it was a comedown in my estimations would be an understatement. It then proceeded to get through 5 lock barrels in 6months as the shitty thing didn't even have central locking and the locks just collapsed. Or they key snapped.

 

Who'd have thought a streetwise could be made to look quite menacing

[RayMK]

I've had a Rover 25 diesel as a lease car.  It was ok.  Did everything it was supposed to and used very little fuel.  My son bought a brand new ZR.  It looked good (blue), went well, sounded sporty and only had one head gasket failure before 10,000 miles - oh, and a gearbox also replaced under warranty not long afterwards. When I first saw the Streetwise, I thought they must be joking, and the BRM looks like a car repaired by fitting wrong coloured bits from a scrappy.  I'm not old enough (67) to view any of them with affection but I've noticed that Marinas now look gorgeous. This is worrying.

[AMC Rebel]

Almost everything looks good lowered - but they aren't much good for actual driving (unless you have a trad Citroen or air suspension so you can pump it up to a sensible height for driving).  IMHO, of course.

 

Turns out I was right about people wanting to lower Streetwises then. 

[AMC Rebel]

 the BRM looks like a car repaired by fitting wrong coloured bits from a scrappy. 

 

Er - that was homage to the racing BRMs of course

 

 

[Hendry]

Theyre too rare to mess around with but id love a 200 1.8 VVC VI BRM LE to give it its full Sunday name, and fit the ZR side skirts, rear spoiler, black trim to replace the red and chequer pattern and black half leather sports seats from a ZR in place of the standard red leather. 

[320touring]

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132079189936

 

Fight....

[155V6]

Theyre too rare to mess around with but id love a 200 1.8 VVC VI BRM LE to give it its full Sunday name, and fit the ZR side skirts, rear spoiler, black trim to replace the red and chequer pattern and black half leather sports seats from a ZR in place of the standard red leather. 

You can get the ZR seats in full leather,or leather/alcantara.Rare though.

[TRW]

Why so expensive?

Because people like this -

 

Keep clattering cars like this - 

 

Into things.

(if she see this, she'll go apeshit lol)

[greengartside]

I think they're for the more discerning OAP...