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So happy to see this at the museum today, well done for saving it

As you say, atrocious management and British Leyland. In my opinion the P5 and P6 were superior to any of the Jags of the era. They were better built and more reliable. Stupid design decisions were also to blame, after the Honda era came the K series, a reliability disaster. I used to own a 75 turbo diesel and I loved it, but some of the design choices were insane. Transverse mounting of that engine was stupid giving you three choices to change the accessory belts; dismantle the wheel well, weld two spanners together and risk smashing your knuckles, or just rough it and smash your knuckles anyway. It was a shame that BMW wasn't really interested in the Rover brand. The combination of Rover 75 styling and the BMW straight 6 petrol engines would have been perfect (RWD of course). I also owned an E46 325ci at the same time as the '75 and I thought it would have been great to stick that engine and drive train in there.

Thanks Tom. I’ve owned a number of BL cars over the years and liked them all. This is a painful, but necessary watch about a catastrophe that should never have happened 😢

that front design was sold as Simca in Europe

Yes, the end of rover was Leyland 🤨

The Poms could never produce anything worthwhile! Whether it's cars electrical goods etc !! Long live Ireland ❤❤❤

I think Elon musk or Jeff baydos or Bill Gates should bring back Rover . Also very good documentary good Narrayshon and very Thorough 😊

Part of the blame for Rover demise were the design of the car were so dull, it made the Italian's, French, Japanese, German and Euro American branch looked apertising.

Unfortunately what counts in motoring in1970 is reliability the Germans French and Japanese cracked it the Brits didn't minis morisse's Riley's BMC you name it weren't anybody with any sense bought a ford escort or Capri or Granada and enjoyed long life and reliability the British motorcar industry was an abortion and would not have been saved by an early hatch back or by attaching wings and mock rockets to it this man's diatribe is a testament to the hopelessness of the British car industry

You were saying that the Rover brand lives on in the Land Rover, but just about every magazine and car journalist commenting on them says that you should only buy one if you are a masochist due to the lack of reliability. It's not a great recommendation. You also mentioned the Ford ecoboost engine. Due to the Internet, more and more people are discovering the enormous problems with this engine. The Wet Belt system and the cracked heads loosing all of the coolant. I know many people, including myself, who have sold their Ford cars while they were worth something and bought another make. Can I say that I enjoyed your video.👍

Lol im glad im not pom ! Im Irish desent ! Really?? Can they actually make anything descent after all these years ?? Even a cake of soap!!!

The only thing that the poms put out that was decent was the mini minor !

it was disgusting how the strikes etc were used, and management simply should sacked the lot of them and new people in, and Totally Banned the Unions especial Red Rob should of been arrested. I can't believe how many men followed him like sheep, then next thing they know they are out of a job, because of there selfish behaviour.

Darn ugly cars, a car upgrade for moped drivers. Anything with two extra wheels was how they got to work in the winter.

I feel that if the workers would have stuck it out instead of going on strike so much. Rover would be very much a prominent face of automotive success and innovation today.

This is one of the most 😫 depressing British Leyland examples of management's cost cutting tales ever told. This car was launched in preparation for the coming 1973 energy crisis. One asks the question, "Why didn't British Leyland simply use the power plant from the discontinued MGC, with up to date emissions controls"? Everyone in the US was making less powerful environmentally friendlier power plants. The torque output of the three liter engine would have given the car a more brawny feel and a dual exhaust system would have given it a sweeter melody. Michael Edwardes was an incompetent idiot who deliberately ran the company into the ground while lining his own pockets.

Maybe the facelift was a mistake.

Looks like an early Russian ripoff of the polo

We have a habit of 'shooting ourselves in the foot' in the UK, this is not just in our manufacturing industry either.

Short-sighted union leaders killed the golden goose and did their members out of their jobs.

Industrial action,greed and internal politics on behalf of senior management. A lack of investment in technology and recruitment. Lastly shocking quality control

The EU was behind British Leylands Demise....Who's doing great in the Car industry now? Before people pipe up about union strikes, anyone ever thought they were paid to strike? Anyone noticed how the EU have let their feelings towards Known?

These tiny little cars look more like toys instead of cars. Lol They even resemble golf carts!

Derick Robbinson ....... say no more

That car ended up in Italy the innocent 500

Thank God all those terrible British cars disappeared long before 2024 !

Green Burn Paxton was one of my favourite, they never cleared out their cars so their was some proper oldies, some of my personal favourites are P38 range rove (3 of them) 80s taxi and a Nice audi a4 and so so so many more amazing cars 9they are still around today and all of those cars are still there!!

In 1961 my father bought a new Rover P5. I was only six years old, but I remember the car clearly as my father kept the car until 1974. I wish we had kept that car, as my father took meticulate care of it, and was in perfect running order. My overwhelming memory was of the thick leather seats that were so comfortable, especially for long journeys.

The European ’Kei’ car market.