Austin Rover - Driving at its best - The 1985 Model Range (1985)
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- Austin Rover - Driving at its best - The 1985 Model Range
Copied directly from a dealership VHS video
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1985 model range including:
Mini (now with disc brakes!)
Metro (now available in 5 door)
Maestro (now availabke in 2.0efi, HL)
Montego (new estate)
200 Series (Launch)
SD1
Metro Van
Maestro Van
Check out the petrol at 41p a litre!
1985 - Auta a dopravní prostředky
I am going down to my Austin Rover dealer tomorrow to buy one of these beauties.
I know they were unreliable rust buckets, but those Rover v8’s were nice in their day. They got the style right. The vanden plas & the vitesse were stunning inside.
All cars of that age were rust buckets.
Unreliable? Bullshit. And they rusted no faster or slower than any other car of that time.
We all can see now what the dangers are of ads. The horrors which were waiting for these poor buyers is history now.
Had a Maestro 1.3 HL and to be honest it was one of the best cars i have ever owned. Drove all over the country in it , moved house in it 2. Comfortable and economical i cant complain!
I wish these cars where still being made today love them all
The Rover 600 was an underrated car, had two 1.8 petrol and 2 lt diesel's lovely cars
Love them all, hate the rust!
The star that shines twice as bright lives half as long
thanks for uploading
Have owned most of the range and found them great cars .other makes of cars at that time had problems
This is probably the only truly _rational_ line up this maker ever put to market...but it was too little, too late. (BMC may have been viable had it been brutally pruned to a few marques before their big wave of invention hit in 1959. All the revenue squandered on badge engineering and duplication was sorely needed in plant, systems and R&D.)
If this was driving at its best, my arse plays the banjo.
I would have bought the Rover SD1, it was a great car. I would also have the Maestro van, I new some one who had one. They had it for quite a long time with hardly anything going wrong.
The music that plays in the background of the maestro part is the same as the music out of the Sinclair C5 infomercial
I had a Triumph Vitesse in the 60's, used to whiz past Cortina GT's.....
all of it destroyed by strikes and unions shame on you red red ron
They only car out of that lot I’d have today would be the mini.
The mpg figures were brilliant on paper. My mum had a 1.0 metro HLE, although it wasn’t that bad a car I don’t remember her boasting 67 mpg!
The only cars in that range I liked were the SD1 and Montego
When did mpg first come in as a frequently quoted figure and when did they stop quoting it at 56mph and start doing a combined cycle?
The real ‘85 range from the point of view of a ex ARG/Rover Group master technician.......
Rover 200 series is the best overall. Probably because it’s A BLOODY HONDA. Reliable and the least rotten of them all. Easy to work on & doesn’t give you an embolism to look at.
The SD1, a classy car to look at, nice to drive. Functionally about as reliable as a Berocca in a monsoon, rusts like nothing else. Squeaks and rattles galore! Highlights of ownership include a glovebox full of water, wiring harness made by a madman with a pair of wire crimpers and a few too many pints of bitter in his system and paint so poorly applied that it had been applied by rubbing Jimmy Savilles love spuds in paint and getting the police to chase him around the body shell. Pure luxury if you hate yourself and have fantasies about the local AA technician.
Montego isn’t too bad and best of a bad bunch from a value/function proposition until some total dipshit decided that we don’t need to paint the area below the bumpers....really?! Oh and it’s proportions are just terrible, looked like it had been designed by someone with a wonky eye and chronic flatulance.
Meastro is about as desirable as a wheelie bin full of genital herpes.
Metro ages quickly and rots faster than anything in its class. Look at any model of the same class and era and they take 3/4 times longer to get tin worm, Metro you just have to breathe on the feckin thing.
Mini is still a classic but hopelessly outclassed by this stage, wasn’t even at the point of being ‘cool’ in ‘85. Welded more repair panels into these than I have had coffees in my life.
The Austin Rover range for 1985, great cars if you have advanced syphilis or an acquired brain injury.
No mention of the excellent Perkins 2.0L diesels, they must have come later?
What was the music in the first 50 seconds
The Rover 200 series, Honda based, merely badged.
Very competitive at the time. Sad at their demise.
Which Dealer??
6:42 The start of the music sounds like Ultravox's "Vienna".
proper rip off merchants Rover
5:23 Sounds like the beginning of Pulstar by Vangelis
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7:58 Sounds like the beginning of Oxygene IV by Jean Michel Jarre
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The new 1985 Austin Rover range. Born to be scrapped.
All manufacturers cars eventually get scrapped. Tragic all the well paid jobs that were lost, including component suppliers, when Austin Rover went bankrupt in 2005.
3:52. That VDP Maestro has an Austin Montego Steering wheel. Not seen in the brochures or on the road. Doesn't look right unlike the steering wheel it should have from 1983 to 1986.
Probably all they had in stock at the time!
Rover vitesse please
They do make them sound good but as time has passed we know they were sadly lacking they don't even look good RIP ROVER 😠😢😭
And people wonder what went wrong with BL! Lol
The Mini is better than the metro and much older!
They really didn't market themselves well. Should have finished with a lingering shot on the SD1 Vitesse, not go on to boring little vans that needed to have featured alongside their passenger derivatives. Even in the Maestro and Montego segments, they ended on the base models.
joke joke joke,,,,,,,,, The film you are watching was taken from a novel written by Jilly Cooper, called "Romance In The Castle at Rover Range". ...........where at the dealership everything was strictly "non-sex-on-set" !!!!!!!!
It was the "cut and thrust" of competition, squash courts, chic hairstyles with highlights,,,,,,,,,,, gone were the days of the "bimbo" (and same for the women) ,,,,,,,,,,,, not forgetting "The Creeps" !!!!!!!,,,,,,,,, an elderly couple who used to arrive once a week to pump the tires up on their Rover that was in for repair.
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Does this get an award for the most delusional ad ever?
Always prattling on about superb quality and advanced technology in these Leyland and Austin Rover promo films ! Did they fool anyone?
The montego had a talking dash on the top spec model, didn't last very long.....
No worse than any other car of the day vauxhall had a reputation of being rot boxes fords total tin little finesse inside rubber sweaty floor covering prone to rotting floor panels japanese rotting just the same but you did get a radio I have owned most of them in my time look at the moans about modern cars water leaks high costs just to get a thermostat changed could do it in 15 minutes on most cars of the day for little money: cars are just money making machines as always no matter what you choose ; lucky to get a good one keep it as long as you can forget the year letter on the plate we all know what that's about. 👀
Should have evolved the SD1 and not bothered with the 800 shite box
Sd1 was a piece of shit even the V8. 800 vittesse turbo would run away on top end and acceleration
The SD1 was good looking, but otherwise a horrible rust bucket with shockingly bad build quality. Unforgivable in this class. The 800 was a much better car.
The SD1 was conceived in 1969. Things had moved on considerably by the mid 1980s.
God weren't they shite, would have been thankful for any half decent car at the time tbh but think old fords gave more value and reliability
Yep - I think at the time the Fiesta/Escort/Granada offered quite a bit more reliability and build quality than this lot. I remember hearing someone down the road trying to start their Austin Princess every morning, and it didn't sound good! :)
Fords rot boxes suspension mounts rust like crazy very spartan inside escorts a joke for a car 🤣
Couldn’t have put it better myself. Just utter gash!
Why was this ‘recommended’ for me? Rover = crap that’s why they went bust
Crap cars.