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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: STMO123 on 15 August 2006, 20:04:33
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Thought I'd seen (or heard) of most cars but I never Knew that they'd put a 4.6l V8 into a Rover 75, and I definately didn't know you could still grab one new. (Well,not used anyway)
http://www.evanshalshaw.com/specialoffers/specialoffers.asp?category=1&drpType=&search=true&drpMaxPrice=0&drpMinPrice=0&make=&y=6&x=17&navwindow=1&view=10
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Yeah, quite rare, RWD as well....
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Think they added it a short time after MG did it?
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Yeah,but,whats the point? They must have had to uprate the gearbox,suspension,tyresetc.etc So, its a ZT :-?
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I think the Rover engineers did a proper job from what I've heard - doing what they wanted to do with 75, and not what BMW wanted them to do. As said, RWD, different gearbox, 18" wheels, uprated brakes...
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Well,Jaime,they cant have done a very good job advertising the fact because,as I said, never heard of it.
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more cash spent wisely on a company that was on the edge
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Well,Jaime,they cant have done a very good job advertising the fact because,as I said, never heard of it.
Yeah, I had. I remember one of the postal mailings, and some mag adverts, used that rower bloke who won the medals...
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Only released a few months before they went tits up...
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just browsed for MG ZT's.... they very cheap!
Autotrader result:
2003 52 Reg MG ZT 1.8 T 160 +
4 Doors, Manual, Saloon, Petrol, 82,000 miles
£4,800
Buy it, now and when MG's go back into production parts will be back again....
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As far as I remember, the only MG that MIGHT go back into production is the MGTF. The Chinese want a nice little british sports car to produce. They'll go down a bomb I'm sure! :D
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If anyone needs genuine MG parts, you can get them here
http://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/pdf/mgrover/MG%20Rover%20Popular%20Parts.pdf
Not cheap!
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I think the Rover engineers did a proper job from what I've heard - doing what they wanted to do with 75, and not what BMW wanted them to do. As said, RWD, different gearbox, 18" wheels, uprated brakes...
One little thing spoils it when you open the bonnet! An oval with F0rd in the middle sitting on the plenum chamber staring you in the face. :( I'd want a Rover version if they'd done one rather than the carbon fibre go-faster MG version that they actually produced. It would have been a successor to the last proper in house designed & built Rover P5B (A coupe would have been nice :) )
http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?r40ztef.htm