Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club Forum

It looks soooo much better on the original wheels.

We have a member with a 1990 G 214SLi that they have owned from new and managed 390k on its first engine. It is now on its second engine. It had reached 431k by last October. See the article about the car in The Viking, July 2019.

John, I would be pleased to receive an update on your car for The Viking.

You would probably be grateful for the car body kit to distract people from looking at your jacket if you had to be dressed like that to drive it!

Welcome to the forum Paul. As an aside to Paul's car, when Paul mentioned to me that he used to work in the Rover Press Garage and knowing that my 75 was serviced by the press garage when it was a management car I asked him if he could identify the signatures in the service book and he recognised bo...

Yes, I checked it at lunchtime and it's not very helpful.

I will take some pics but I can't remember if it has any labels on it.

This might just be the highest-mileage R8 around

See the July 2019 edition of The Viking for the highest mileage 214 we know of, also a G reg.

You can't beat those early K series...

The engine mounts are in different locations because the Honda engine is mounted 180 degrees different to the Rover engines.

They are good mowers, Australian I believe...

It's a photographic interpretation of BRG! There is a reason why so many of the adverts were of cars in Flame Red and later in Nightfire, they photograph well.

The 618iS and iL were run out models.

Owning two early K series, I agree!

The rear suspension and consequently the fuel tank, spare wheel well and exhaust are all different on an R3. (25). The suspension was simplified to accommodate everything within the shorter rear overhang and shorter wheelbase. (The simpler suspension was also cheaper to build, had less to go wrong a...

Yes, the Advantage. All the looks of the MG but without the performance! And hideous white lattice wheels as well. A neighbour of mine had the Maestro 1.6 Advantage. Somehow the body coloured "Austin" grille never looked quite right on either the Advantage or the 1.3 Special. A version of the MG EFi...