Rover 100
Taken on 22 August 2015 and uploaded 25 November 2024.
I don't drive (never have) and know little or nothing about cars, although I recognize them well enough.
I used to see plenty of these growing up, a P4 of which there were a number of variants (Rover 95, 100, 110 etc.) including a jet powered version, although I never saw one of those.... It was produced between 1949 and 1964, when it was replaced by the altogether more swinging Rover 2000. Rover always had a reputation for innovation...
Rover is an exemplar of the decline and mismanagement of British industry and particularly the motor industry. Rover began making cars in 1904 and also made the Land Rover and Range Rover cars, the latter of which is the template for the Chelsea Tractor, beloved of rich imbeciles. Rover was, allegedly, 'offered' the BMW works after WW2 and wound up being owned by BMW before being sold back to 'management' then bought by a Chinese manufacturer. In between times it was swallowed by Leyland/British Leyland/BMC and variations, eventually becoming the last 'name' of that group (Austin, Triumph. Jaguar, Morris, MG etc) and sold as a badged Honda. Now, only Jaguar and Range Rover survive, neither British owned...oh, well. The 'marque' is owned by Tata (Indian), owners of Jaguar Land Rover: MG cars are now Chinese.
Lovely car, seen near the Port Of London Authority's Denton, Gravesend site.
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Rover 100
Taken on 22 August 2015 and uploaded 25 November 2024.
I don't drive (never have) and know little or nothing about cars, although I recognize them well enough.
I used to see plenty of these growing up, a P4 of which there were a number of variants (Rover 95, 100, 110 etc.) including a jet powered version, although I never saw one of those.... It was produced between 1949 and 1964, when it was replaced by the altogether more swinging Rover 2000. Rover always had a reputation for innovation...
Rover is an exemplar of the decline and mismanagement of British industry and particularly the motor industry. Rover began making cars in 1904 and also made the Land Rover and Range Rover cars, the latter of which is the template for the Chelsea Tractor, beloved of rich imbeciles. Rover was, allegedly, 'offered' the BMW works after WW2 and wound up being owned by BMW before being sold back to 'management' then bought by a Chinese manufacturer. In between times it was swallowed by Leyland/British Leyland/BMC and variations, eventually becoming the last 'name' of that group (Austin, Triumph. Jaguar, Morris, MG etc) and sold as a badged Honda. Now, only Jaguar and Range Rover survive, neither British owned...oh, well. The 'marque' is owned by Tata (Indian), owners of Jaguar Land Rover: MG cars are now Chinese.
Lovely car, seen near the Port Of London Authority's Denton, Gravesend site.
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