bbrich1968
New Member
Sorry to do this if it has already been done, or if i have not read enough on the subject please forgive me.
It grates me to think that there is no large British owned car industry, however that is not the really the point of this post come question.
My question in a long winded kind of way comes from my mindset that the last true rover car was the SD1, although the development was through the specialist division, the original idea drawings concept etc was Solihulls brainchild so to my mind this is the last true rover, even if it was a shed.
Now to my point,
If British Leyland hadnt purchased Rover in the late 60s and devalued the brand what kind of car do you think would have evolved through to today?
Would they have embraced turbo charging ala saab, would performance have come along those lines, or would we today have 3.0 litre turbo diesals, you have to say they were an innovative bunch.
Would we have ended up with a corporate car like todays audi A6 or Bmw's 5 series. I dont see rover as a cheap car, i dont see it as a Jag either, more medium class but with all the toys and future now innovations as per the P6.
I know its a very broad subject, but you must sometimes think.........if only they were left alone what would we have today.
Just look at what they were developing when they were purchased or even the travesty of spending 3 million plus on development and tooling for the the P6BS that Stokesy threw away you know they were going to dominate again in the seventies as they did in the sixties and a new generation saloon would have been out to the public long before the SD1 finally appeared.
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ps
Sorry in advance to all SD1 owners for calling the car a shed, i love them aswell but i worked on them in the middle eighties at All electric garages in Harborne, Birmingham, they were made to a price. (the british leyland effect)
It grates me to think that there is no large British owned car industry, however that is not the really the point of this post come question.
My question in a long winded kind of way comes from my mindset that the last true rover car was the SD1, although the development was through the specialist division, the original idea drawings concept etc was Solihulls brainchild so to my mind this is the last true rover, even if it was a shed.
Now to my point,
If British Leyland hadnt purchased Rover in the late 60s and devalued the brand what kind of car do you think would have evolved through to today?
Would they have embraced turbo charging ala saab, would performance have come along those lines, or would we today have 3.0 litre turbo diesals, you have to say they were an innovative bunch.
Would we have ended up with a corporate car like todays audi A6 or Bmw's 5 series. I dont see rover as a cheap car, i dont see it as a Jag either, more medium class but with all the toys and future now innovations as per the P6.
I know its a very broad subject, but you must sometimes think.........if only they were left alone what would we have today.
Just look at what they were developing when they were purchased or even the travesty of spending 3 million plus on development and tooling for the the P6BS that Stokesy threw away you know they were going to dominate again in the seventies as they did in the sixties and a new generation saloon would have been out to the public long before the SD1 finally appeared.
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ps
Sorry in advance to all SD1 owners for calling the car a shed, i love them aswell but i worked on them in the middle eighties at All electric garages in Harborne, Birmingham, they were made to a price. (the british leyland effect)