A thing rarely seen

"Hoccy" (Hoccy) 08/31/2017 at 11:11 • Filed to: Rover

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A (Honda-)Rover wagon! With the steering wheel on the correct side, even.

Please enlight me on this seemingly wonderful vehicle.

Arrivederci > Hoccy 08/31/2017 at 11:19

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Excuse my ignorance, but what makes it a Honda?

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Arrivederci 08/31/2017 at 11:24

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These came from a time when Rover essentially rebadged Honda’s. It was a little more than a rebadging, I suppose, but same underpinnings.

Arrivederci > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 08/31/2017 at 11:27

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Ah, so a reliable Rover!

FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > Hoccy 08/31/2017 at 11:28

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Rover made an estate version? Because I’vergessen never seen one in my life.

Svend > Hoccy 08/31/2017 at 11:58

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The Rover 400 Series was a solid car. Grand father had a 416 and the thing wouldn’t die. Later on in it’s life it had a battery fault (grand father bought a cheap battery so it wasn’t the car’s fault) but everything just kept going.

Nothing amazing about it, just a solid reliable car.

When I was younger I always fancied a 420GSi estate.

Rover 218VVC coupe

Rover 827 coupe

duurtlang > FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem 08/31/2017 at 12:58

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I guess you’vergessen that you’ve seen one.

FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > duurtlang 08/31/2017 at 13:02

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Motherfucking autocorrect at it again. Maybe I did vergess about it.

duurtlang > FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem 08/31/2017 at 13:06

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Yeah, sorry about that. It was too good an autocorrect to ignore.

FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > duurtlang 08/31/2017 at 13:10

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Haha I actually chuckled at that so no need to ne sorry

BritishLeyland™ > Hoccy 08/31/2017 at 14:29

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Based on the Honda Concerto. You could have it with the self destructing Rover K-series 1.4 litre, a 1.6 Honda engine (later replaced by a 1.6 K-series engine), a PSA diesel and a Rover 2.0 T-series (which was excellent BTW, but sadly replaced by the horrible 1.8 K-series).

And the wood veener is real!

Hoccy > Svend 08/31/2017 at 17:23

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Seen the small coupe once in Norway, but with British plates. It’s an interesting design, as I feel it’s quite wide compared to the length and the height.

Svend > Hoccy 08/31/2017 at 17:36

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It’s a beautiful elegant design that followed Rover’s design language.

With the right set of wheels, it can look great.

ranwhenparked > Hoccy 08/31/2017 at 19:53

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This was the period when Rover and Honda were still doing things jointly as more or less equal partners, the 400/Concerto were developed simultaneously by engineering teams in the UK and Japan.

However, after that, BAe started cutting R&D spending and Rover stopped being able to contribute as much to the partnership, so the 2nd gen 400 and the 600 would up being almost straight rebadges of Hondas.

These were decent cars, and their solid reputation certainly tricked Rover (and, eventually) BMW management into believing that the brand could be aggressively pushed further upscale with higher prices on the 600 and next 400 and 200 models, which would up causing problems for them.

ranwhenparked > BritishLeyland™ 09/01/2017 at 08:16

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The K’s problem was the head gasket, Ford engineered a more durable version for the Freelander that solves the issue. SAIC is still but ilding them today for Roewe and MG, not bad engines otherwise.