Yes, that's the later MkIII. Amazing car and a bit mad. Supercar performance in a bank manager's saloon. Still very sought after and fetching strong money.
Where did the British car industry go wrong?
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Yes, that's the later MkIII. Amazing car and a bit mad. Supercar performance in a bank manager's saloon. Still very sought after and fetching strong money.
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EddieM
If needed yep was just simply bolted together, that said the service interval on mine was 4 years. Ok that's a service interval I gave it, but the old donkey never gave up.
Only some of the front wheel drive models and not the first incarnation, the Vauxhall U car.
Yes, fwd models but I think it may have stopped on later models, god knows why, clever bit of design.
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It was just the ones with four gears iirc. It wasn't possible with 5 gear models.
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EddieM
Mine was an 88 plate front wheel drive, very easy to work on. Simple car. Rubbish brakes IIRC.
Both did, or had a major investment in Rover. Much of the last model, the 75 included mostly BMW parts, even the BMW engine in the diesel.
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EddieM
Marinas
Alegros
Metros
Etc
All as rare as hens teeth after all who would want to restore em
Very few?
Add in the maestro, Montero, princess, rover SD1, ital, talbots, shudder.
I had none BL company vehicles for years, but one company I worked for had a special arrangement with BL and forced a Marina on us. It did 53,000 careful miles and the engine was worn out horrible thing.
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EddieM
I got a Marina up to 120 MPH once, then again I had just pushed it off Beachy head.
My father ran a Rover 20???? and I think there is some fiction concerning engines and parts being quoted but BMW did play a part at one point so pass. BMW bought some names as well Rolls I think but now made by volkswagon. The bloke that runs BMW is reckoned to be a pretty cute but the company has been seen as being too small to survive. They have also had some very serious problems with their cars. One caused a number of owners to switch from petrol to diesel even when they didn't want to. One period of floods caused recovery people to call them aquavacs. Engine wrecked and not replaced under warrantee. The other problem, engine replaced but only for original owners, I was running a petrol one when that one was about - used. Sold it quickly when I found out about it. Not that impressed really for what should be a sports type car. Handling a bit strange. I asked some one in the trade about that and he said change the tyres to such and such and it wont do that 
but do something different instead only worse.
The cougar 2.6 is a variant of the ford V6 as far as I am aware and has been at 3L in the past. Capri for instance. They have used it in many cars. Ford did do a lot of the design here but in the end only 1tonne vans.
Out of interest Saab used 1/2 a Triumph V8 engine bought under license. Slant 4.
but do something different instead only worse.The cougar 2.6 is a variant of the ford V6 as far as I am aware and has been at 3L in the past. Capri for instance. They have used it in many cars. Ford did do a lot of the design here but in the end only 1tonne vans.
Out of interest Saab used 1/2 a Triumph V8 engine bought under license.
Slant 4.What year and how often was it serviced?
Straight from the factory, dealer serviced on time. I cannot remember when exactly, but would guess at late 70's maybe early 80's.
Strange as I knew people in the 70's that got a lot more miles out of them then. The only related make I drove was an MGB GT. Ex my brother. I'd built a Spartan from scratch fitted with a rather tuned up 2L Ford engine and got fed up with the engine mountings snapping so we swapped. It went lot higher mileage than you have mentioned but was showing signs of the engine needing work but I do drive rather hard. 80 odd thousand from memory and probably not well serviced for part of it's life.(Brother at least)
There was a period, don't ask me for a date when oil got well ahead of engines in as much as they lasted way longer than they did but I would say that was more like the 90's. Fiat were the first to take advantage of that. High performance sports car with a smallish engine. It had to run on ordinary oil for a number of miles first to run it in. Now they all take advantage of it. You may need a new Ford gear box at 60k these days. Probably higher if all motorway driving.
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