Designed with Style featuring The Rover SD1 ... Rover and British Leyland were beset by problems in the mid 1970s. Out of this cauldron of mismanagement came the Rover SD1 in 1976. It was called SD for the Specialist Division and 1 for the first car to come from the in-house styling department. Despite a dramatic innovative design both inside and out, the option of classic V8 grunt and more or less universally praised dynamics, the SD1s reputation and its longevity suffered at the hands of a company in meltdown.it even received rave reviews from the motoring press. It is hard to be over enthusiastic about the new 3500 said Autocar. On every score its qualities justify any kind of enthusiasm. It would have been hard to predict, especially looking at the bald paper specification, just how well the car would perform handle and ride. But production numbers of course could not be maintained and nor could the quality. And all we are left with in the 21st century is a whole bag of what ifs and a dwindling handful of what was once one of the most promising cars ever to be created in Britain..... i loved the rover sd1s and had around 6 or 7 different ones .... Paul Jack Griffiths is a BIG fan of the old SD1s ......
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:50:41 +0000
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