Lude Generation

Hadn't realised Rover were so far on with the whole thing!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-RARE-COL ... 1260878951

You have to wonder what it would have done for Rover if they had launched it under their own steam.

just shows how short sighted the guys running the british motor industry where this would have saved rover

Still can't believe Rover had a huge hand making this. I don't believe it would sell as well as what it has done under BMW, as too many people are brand snobs. It could of saved Rover tho!

It wouldnt have saved Rover, Knowing how british they are they would have used the k series 1.4 which would last 20k before the head gasket would fail and there performance model would use the Rover v8 that has never changed since the 60s.

you dont know what they were going to do, they obviously wanted to use a hot engine in the cooper with the scoop. That might have been a turbo'd 4cylinder, after all they didnt do so bad with the 6r4 so they had the engineering know how to make stuff work.

The engine that actually went into the mini is based on a 1.6 from the Peugeot 106.

Decent engineers, Crap management*















*see also everything else in the UK

Interesting find, but yep they were well on with it, that's why BMW retained that part of the company and sold off the rest.