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Rover 400/45
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Although the bhp version of the T-series engine found a natural home in the Rover rover 400 45, it was the 2. Be that as it may, the highlight of the K-series was somewhat overshadowed by the rest of the car.
The rover 400 45 that mattered — the customers — found the Rover somewhat disappointing and overpriced. If the premium pricing policy seemed like a winner with the classy and compact R8, its replacement certainly did not appear to have the looks to justify the continuation of this policy.
Of course, Rover countered this allegation by telling everyone to wait for the saloon version, due in earlybut it did not ease the fact that the new hatchback was not what the public wanted at the time, and was certainly not offered at a favourable price.
Autocar magazine was reasonably pleased with the i and reported so in their road test. This it achieves by a whisker. With that sweet spinning, characterful K-series engine and an outstanding urban ride quality, Rover has created a car that feels genuinely unique, not just a cynical badge engineered Honda.
But only just. Sales of the Rover in the UK were buoyant, and in direct comparison with the combined sales of the rover 400 45 R8 and Montego, they appeared to be quite good. Rover 400 45 in the heart rover 400 45 the UK market, where Ford and Vauxhall continued to make hay, Rover continued to appear almost mortally weak.
In the first full year of sales, theincluding the stylish saloon version, grabbed 3. Rover 400 45, exports are affected by the fluctuations of the currency markets, and as we shall see, Rover and BMW would suffer terribly from these in later years. In andthe Rover captured 2. By the following year, however, rover 400 45 had collapsed disastrously to 1. What had caused this collapse?
What made the situation even worse for Rover was the flipside: the price of UK cars became more expensive in export markets, so in order to remain price competitive, Rover needed to drop their prices to such an extent that they began to make serious losses. ByBMW had begun to take emergency measures for Rover — and the first of rover 400 45, the 45 facelift duly appeared in December Improved in many ways over the model, the facelift served two rover 400 45.
The changes were small but many in number.
Most obvious were the cosmetic changes to the nose rover 400 45 the car, including pretty quad-headlights and a more pronounced Rover grille. This also facilitated a higher bonnet line — necessary for the 2.
The interior architecture and dashboard were unchanged, but the fitment of Rover 400 45 75 front seats a trick the company had adopted in the past with the Rover Metro back rover 400 45an uprating of equipment levels, and extra chrome fittings certainly boosted the showroom appeal of the car. The other big news was that KV6 engine: Rover had previously shown the model back in — initially promised as a production model, but killed for political and other reasons.
The concept never went away though, so in December rover 400 45, the productionised version using the 2. Whereas the 1. The potential was there, and the backroom boys at Gaydon were already working on replacing that 2. Autocar magazine were somewhat unflattering about the Rover 45 1.
Its lively engine, entertaining dynamics and decent specification are let down by staid lines, an out of date interior and a weak image. As with the later Rover 75 and 25 models, the new management decided that to keep the saloon car ranges alive, they needed to encourage younger buyers into the fold, and if any car in the Rover range needed this, it was the The resulting prototype was wheeled out to the press in August Codenamed X20, the revitalised Rover 45 had been re-engineered to become an MG saloon.
Rob Oldaker rejigged the suspension settings and Peter Stevens restyled those body parts that he could change easily such as the bumpers and sideskirts.
Many changes were made to effect the transformation from Rover to MG rover 400 45 the results, it has to be said, have been truly successful. The final and definitive car was launched in Januaryand unusually for a performance-focused car, the ZS was launched as a range of models that mirrored the Rover 45 itself, including — rather surprisingly — the L-series diesel version! The 2.
One thing the excellence of the MG ZS chassis did demonstrate was the fact that the suspension system developed by Honda was fundamentally right, but flawed in the early execution…. As the MG Rover 400 45 era rover 400 45, it became painfully obvious that the 45 along with the 25 and 75 was going to need a facelift in order to keep buyers interested. With limited resources and a number of Honda related parts supply issues, it was clear that the most the car rover 400 45 receive would be new front and rear bumpers and an equipment re-jig.
A new-style dashboard was also going to need to be developed in-house in order to replace the Honda original, which the Japanese company was no longer going to supply. The lack of any exciting developments on the body front were a disappointment, and they perhaps overshadowed what was actually a very effective front end restyle.
As rover 400 45 administrators, PricewaterhouseCoopers did their work at Longbridge in the months following the production lines coming to a halt, it became clear that the 45 and ZS had probably died for good. MG Rover now had to devise a new model strategy with which not only to replace the 25 and 45, but also to revitalise the image of the company.
The first thoughts would be to say that the Rover was a failure — and in the cold light of sales figures it plainly was. Well no, because Honda were protecting their own interests, and as it has been recorded within these pages many times, if it were not for Honda, Rover would probably have ceased to exist by So, does blame for the failure of the Rover lie with British Aerospace?
In many ways, yes: had it not under-invested in the car division year after year, then Rover would have been in a much stronger position to design its own car. The only problem with this was that the designers were not given enough room to express themselves fully — and rover 400 45 success of the laterMGF, Freelander and Rover 75 indicated that they could get the job done rover 400 45 this freedom.
And so, through necessity, the car that emerged from the Canley rover 400 45 studio looked far too much like the Honda from which it was derived. By this time, car buyers had become too sophisticated, and their readiness to accept rover 400 45 Rover as a badge engineered Honda meant that they were deprived the joys of the K-series engine… and that alone lifted the Rover above the Honda Civic.
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Verder werden geen significante wijzigingen aan de rest van het model doorgevoerd maar de facelift zorgde voor een meer onderscheidend Rover-familiegezicht en vestigde een zekere afstand tot de Honda Concerto. De tweede generatie van de Rover 400 45 werd in mei gelanceerd als hatchback en kwam kort daarna ook als sedan op de markt.
Het model was technisch gebaseerd op de vijfdeurs Honda Civic die ook in het voorjaar van verscheen. De eveneens in gepresenteerde Rover van de derde generatie was door Rover in eigen regie herzien, dit model werd vanaf dat moment onafhankelijk doorontwikkeld. Als aandrijving werden 1,4 en 1,6 liter benzinemotoren van de Rover K-serie, een 1,6-liter SOHC -motor van de Honda D-serie alleen met automatische transmissie en een 2,0 rover 400 45 benzinemotor van de Rover T-serie gebruikt en daarnaast een 2,0 liter turbodiesel van de grotere Rover De Rover kwam qua grootte overeen met de Ford Escort maar Rover voorzag het rover 400 45 van houtwerk de strip in het dashboard was van echt fineerde strips in de portieren en de middenconsole waren imitatie en plaatste het model prijstechnisch op het niveau van de Ford Mondeo.
In het najaar vanna een concernbrede herstructurering, werd de Rover onder leiding van BMW hernoemd tot Rover 45 en onderging een uitgebreide facelift. Het uiterlijk werd aangepast aan de nieuwe Rover De benzinemotoren met 1,4, 1,6 en 1,8 rover 400 45 en de 2,0 liter dieselmotor werden overgenomen van dede 2. De 45 kreeg de betere stoelen van de rover 400 45 75 en een verbeterde wielophanging om een uitgebalanceerder rijgedrag en beter stuurgedrag te bereiken.
La de Rover, se décline en deux générations. Elle ne succède à aucun véhicule et sera remplacée par la Fin de carrière. La ayant du mal à se faire une place dans le segment très disputé des compactes en Europe, et sa carrosserie trois volumes étant, dans ce type de gabarit, de moins en moins adaptée à la demande, la direction prend, dès , la décision de la Années de production: —
Hierdoor bereikte en overtrof de Rover 45 vooral vanaftoen hij de chassiscomponenten deelde met de MG -modellen de meeste concurrenten qua rijeigenschappen.