Rover 620SLDi

Dull, diesel, yet deserving... So what does £200 buy you nowadays? A nice bottle of champagne, a weekend away, 650 or so cigarettes? Or a car. I'm not entirely new to the idea of Bangernomics, but a Rover 600 with at least a year's life left in it and a full MoT for 200 sheets had to be worth investigating further. The car is my mate Oli's current daily hack, bought in April with 154000 miles for the sum named above to replace his 420 diesel - which he put 35,000 miles on in a year for Read more [...]

Rover 420SLDi

Rover 420SLDi - for next to nothing it's impossible to go wrong. Trying to navigate whilst speeding along a dual carriageway at something a tad illegal, I noticed too late the street we were aiming for. 'Bugger' was my response, to which my chauffeur braked hard, knocked it into second, and hurled the car round a 90 degree right turn across 2 lanes of traffic, tyres squealing like something from the Professionals. Such was my first experience of R404SPR back in August, from a rather cramped back Read more [...]