Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club

The R8 gets a 7-page review in this month's Retro Car mag.



The article ends

"One to enjoy and preserve at the same time, the R8's day will come. For now, just enjoy it..."

And most of it is correct - the Cabby came before the Coupe, not the other way 'round, as written in the article

Lots of other interesting stuff too

This is a cracking magazine: I bought the first issue and will be heading off to the newsagents for the latest one.

I guess the winner of the front cover 'shoot out' would have to be the 75/ZT, as it will always be easier to fix a cooked engine than it will be to replace rotten metalwork

But I would still take the X-Type
(My wife still hasn't fully forgiven me for trading in the one we had for an Alfa Romeo!)

220 GSi turbo wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:53 pm I guess the winner of the front cover 'shoot out' would have to be the 75/ZT, as it will always be easier to fix a cooked engine than it will be to replace rotten metalwork

From what I've heard, the X-Type rust proofing is pretty poor - esp. around the sills. But then these days, even Mercs have a very bad reputation with those that work in the repair industry...

Daughters x type (an offer they couldn't refuse) has plastic covers over sills (they go brittle so removing can be an issue), on removal found sills rusting away happily with nearly all the paint bubbled and a couple of small holes already.

We have a 05 x type estate and I've welded new sills on 3 years ago , there is a middle section that rusts out , it's build in in the design in my opinion , other wise a good car .