D.E Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Odd. The Cityrover at the 2003 Amsterdam Autorai was rhd, I was told then that lhd ones weren't available yet but would arrive later that year. Afaik MG Rover went bust before they could start selling the Cityrover in continental Europe. Dick Longbridge and lesapandre 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 10 hours ago, moosemansjukebox said: Left hand drive City Rover, didn't even know these existed. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185172368331 Let's hope someone on here snaps that up as it appears to be a unique example. Does the dashboard tend to degrade on these? It looks a bit crumbly in the photos - I wonder if it's made of a lesser quality plastic as it's potentially a prototype? The seller seems bizarre too - check out their other listing of Ferrari 360 exhaust as they've upgraded to a sports version. Oh, they've also got their £12.5k 2 YXJ registration for sale too. lesapandre and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Late Thaab 90 project. £1495 seems reasonable to me. It's in Plymouth. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Saab-90-2-0-5-Speed-2-Door-Black-/313761214506?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 willswitchengage, MorrisItalSLX, mk2_craig and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 1 hour ago, lesapandre said: That interior looks recovered to me - not original. Front seats are probably from a later example, from about 1968 or so these and the Wolseley 16/60 got a downgrade from leather to vinyl. lesapandre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Marina series 3 1.7 "High Line" . Low mileage but needs to trailered away. Bidding for this has already passed £3,000! Remspoor, MorrisItalSLX, Dyslexic Viking and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KitKat Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Admittedly I’m not sure what I’m looking at with Audi’s, I’m not into German cars, but any good @MisterH? Not a Quattro though https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265414081888 meggersdog, Barry Cade and MisterH 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGTI6 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 A usable Maestro van for £500. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202111209769281 Shite Ron, willswitchengage, Austat and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike60 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 12 hours ago, grogee said: Opel Ponzi, auction starts at £1k but might reach 5 figures at a guess. Digital dash probably doubles the price. It does have a very comprehensive description but I don't think much of this: "it does look sound underneath too, floorpan etc - we have had it on a ramp, just didn't have a phone to take pics" EDIT: Forgot link. Curiously the start price is now £500,000. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Opel-Monza-GSE-V-Low-Mileage-60-622-Genuine-Miles-Not-Barn-Find-More-Project-/125007777441?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 As an ex GS/E owner I'd love another but christ they know how to rot, mine had new strut turrets professionally welded in at 9 years old...... This is the Ebay auction car, not mine. mk2_craig, Kringle and grogee 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterH Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 1 hour ago, KitKat said: Admittedly I’m not sure what I’m looking at with Audi’s, I’m not into German cars, but any good @MisterH? Not a Quattro though https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265414081888 It isn't a quattro, but it is a sport which makes more sense logically. I have already fired off a couple of questions, it is in my favourite colour, and looked like this at one stage: All being well I would like to view it, just hope he hasn't been stupid with the reserve Barry Cade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 2 hours ago, lesapandre said: ...Were these really so bad? Or overhyped for something that should have been sold as being cheap and cheerful.... Not so much overhyped as overpriced. As far as I understand it, retail price was about £1500 to £2000 too high. If it had been marketed at, say, £4500 to £5000, they might have had a strong seller, since "everyone" could have one and it might have made a plausible starter car for younger drivers. At £4500 to £5000 you wouldn't be too worried about Indian build quality* (shite at best) either. Instead, MG Rover went after a higher profit margin at about seven grand. In some senses, they were caught between a rock and a hard place as they needed the profit to pay towards the next new Rover design. They gambled on the last throw of the dice; they lost. lesapandre and LightBulbFun 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 I saw these new on a 'roadshow' event at a motorway services. They seemed credible and attracted a buzz of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Just now, lesapandre said: I saw these new on a 'roadshow' event at a motorway services. They seemed credible and attracted a buzz of people. Given the choice between a ShittyRover and a G-Swiz (another terrible Indian product with zero crash test resistance), which would you have chosen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 13 hours ago, moosemansjukebox said: Left hand drive City Rover, didn't even know these existed. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185172368331 2 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said: Let's hope someone on here snaps that up as it appears to be a unique example. Does the dashboard tend to degrade on these? It looks a bit crumbly in the photos - I wonder if it's made of a lesser quality plastic as it's potentially a prototype? The seller seems bizarre too - check out their other listing of Ferrari 360 exhaust as they've upgraded to a sports version. Oh, they've also got their £12.5k 2 YXJ registration for sale too. For the benefit* of people on here, I enquired about this old snotter. I reckon it's been stored indoors for most of those eleven years personally. Fascinating little thing! lesapandre, LightBulbFun and Remspoor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 32 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: Given the choice between a ShittyRover and a G-Swiz (another terrible Indian product with zero crash test resistance), which would you have chosen? The Rover. I'd have one but I'm all 'carred up'. Adequate crash protection just encourages bad driving.. Shite Ron and Dick Longbridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colino Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 The city rover immobiliser was a weak point and you could buy a bypass kit so frequently did they break. Dick Longbridge and lesapandre 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willswitchengage Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Very cheap 1983 Accord... struggling to paste a picture from CaC though. https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1403328 MrGTI6 and BlankFrank 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 4 hours ago, lesapandre said: Absolutely fascinating motoring curiosity. How many LHD's did the Phoenix 4 make? 7k miles and registered - so was it a factory test car/mule/press vehicle? No V5 - would this have come straight from the receivers? Were these really so bad? Or overhyped for something that should have been sold as being cheap and cheerful. I wonder if Gaydon have one in their collection. Notwithstanding it's origins it is the last 'BMC' small car in a venerable line stretching back to the original 1923 Austin 7. In 2004 I worked at a supplier that made wiring harnesses. @MrBiscuits and I went to Longbridge to meet with the engineer to discuss what was required. They were so desperate that the reception area was turned into a showroom, in the hope you'd accidentally buy one while waiting to do business. We sat in a City Rover and it smelled of wet dog. I'm amazed they let anything smelling so awful near any potential customers. In the end I don't think we did business with MG Rover. As a grunt my opinion didn't count but I remember thinking we may well not get paid, because the company was in such a state. Maybe top brass agreed with me. As regards LHD - yes the dash may well be poorer quality materials for a prototype, and AFAIK Tata didn't make an LHD version so this would have been all Rover's own work. An early dash assembly to check the mould and finished dimensions. It does beg the question how the PAS rack and system was arranged though, I wonder if there was a suitable donor? Same for brake servo, pedals etc. Dick Longbridge, LightBulbFun, lesapandre and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 1997 Ka: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324894301107?hash=item4ba5359bb3:g:SAQAAOSwICZhl9Cs willswitchengage, KWhite and Shite Ron 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBiscuits Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 22 minutes ago, grogee said: In 2004 I worked at a supplier that made wiring harnesses. @MrBiscuits and I went to Longbridge to meet with the engineer to discuss what was required. They were so desperate that the reception area was turned into a showroom, in the hope you'd accidentally buy one while waiting to do business. We sat in a City Rover and it smelled of wet dog. I'm amazed they let anything smelling so awful near any potential customers. Funnily enough I remember that trip every time I see a city rover. Everyone there seemed to be expecting it all to end any day. Prior to that I did the City Rover ABS application for rover's 'T4' diagnostic gizmo. For the testing I had to go to one of the 'flight sheds' where Tata indicars rolled in at one end and pre production City Rover's rolled out the other. Even to my inexperienced eyes it seemed very half assed tooSavvy, grogee and lesapandre 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 1 hour ago, willswitchengage said: Very cheap 1983 Accord... struggling to paste a picture from CaC though. https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1403328 Jeez... Looks like a lost cause to me KitKat, Dick Longbridge and Remspoor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleyeller Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Just now, willswitchengage said: Very cheap 1983 Accord... struggling to paste a picture from CaC though. https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1403328 Yeah - what's left of it! Never going back on the road IMO..... Doubleyeller collective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horriblemercedes Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 I saw a blue CityRover today. Cool-looking young guy driving it. First CityRover I've seen for years LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 5 hours ago, spike60 said: As an ex GS/E owner I'd love another but christ they know how to rot, mine had new strut turrets professionally welded in at 9 years old...... This is the Ebay auction car, not mine. That's the one I linked to? Christ that's really bad! spike60 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Not a car but one of you might appreciate it https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-Cars-Promotional-literature-from-1972-Motor-Show-London-Earls-Court-/384510049970?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 Austat and adw1977 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 This one has come up for sale near me. https://www.finn.no/car/used/ad.html?finnkode=226593790 spike60, doug, Kringle and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-Van-/125012242009?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 99p! MrGTI6 and puddlethumper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2668819253263309/ Justwatching 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterH Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/959781684615391/?ref=search&referral_code=marketplace_search&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3Abf11b3a2-6926-43e0-9297-2476e944982f LightBulbFun, captain_70s, Dabooka and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGTI6 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 CAT C Lupo being sold due to ULEZ. Done 71k and looks an honest little car at £795, and ad says offers considered. Ridiculous to think if it was an identical model just a few months newer on a Y-reg, it would be exempt. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185127958451 UltraWomble, bunglebus, Dan29 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGTI6 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Another ULEZ-forced sale. A 158k Omega with the BMW straight-six diesel. Bodywork doesn't look the best, but no advisories on the last 5 MOTs with roughly 1,000 miles covered between each one. Currently at £510. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255234667370 Pat Earrings, michael t, Shite Ron and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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