Rover Cars 1945 to 2005 A Pictorial History

by Taylor, James

• ISBN13: 9781787116092
• ISBN10: 1787116093
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-02-11
• Publisher: Veloce Publishing

Summary

A comprehensive pictorial overview of Rover cars and car-derived vans covers the 60 years from 1945 to 2005. It describes and illustrates all of the great classic Rovers up to and including the SD1, and goes on to look at the models inherited from British Leyland that attracted Rover badges.

It finishes with the models designed in conjunction with Honda; the later British-designed cars – and even the final City Rover. There is also consideration of some Rover models that were designed but, for various reasons, did not enter production, and can now only be seen as prototypes in museums.

A title in Veloce’s popular Pictorial History series, Rover Cars 1945 to 2005 describes all of the postwar models with illustrations and technical data for each.

Author Biography

After graduating from Oxford and pursuing further academic studies at Reading, James Taylor spent 12 years working in central government. However, the lure of writing about cars – which he was doing in his spare time – proved too great and he decided to turn it into a career. James has now written well over 100 books in all, and among them have been several definitive one-make or one-model titles. He has written for enthusiast magazines in several countries, has translated books from foreign languages, and even delivers effective writing training in both the public and private sectors. He spent the best part of ten years as the editor of Land Rover Enthusiast magazine and has always counted the products of the old Rover Company and of Land Rover as his favourite subject. He also co-organised the “15 Years of Rover V8” event at Donington in 1982.

 

Table of Contents

Sixty years of Rover cars
M model 
P2
P3
P4
P5, P5B
P6, P6B
P6BS and P9 
P7
P8
SD1
Australian Quintet 
200, first series
800 (1986- 98) 
Australian 416i 
200, second series 
200 Cabriolet 
200 'Tomcat' 
400, first series (1990-1995)
400 Tourer (1994-1998) 
Rover Metro and 100 (1990-1997) 
600 (1993-1998) 
400, second series (1995-1999) 
200, third series (1995-1999) 
75 (1998-2005) 
25 (1999- 2005)
45 (1999-2005) 
Streetwise (2003-2005) 
CityRover (2003-2005) 
The non-Rovers (1986- 2000) 
     Mini (1987-2000)
     Metro (1987- 90) 
     Maestro (1987- 92) 
     Montego (1987- 1995) 
Gas turbines
Index