Mike Humble has now been a Rover 75 owner for 72 hours, has the honeymoon period ended or does it still look promising? The Rover had the potential to fall apart around you as you drove at speed, akin to one of those little cars the clowns would chug around in at the circus.
But quality aside, I loved the , especially the earlier ones and have always fancied one. When Rover first launched the 75, I was a man in my late 20s and thought that the cutting edge of modern technology motoring should not look like the Rover 75, even though its shape even today is rather svelte. Over the years as I have grown sideways and grey, I found the 75 to be a pretty car to stare at. In my own opinion, Richard Woolley and his styling team did a truly fantastic job of catching the retro theme with many draught ideas making it to the production line in Cowley.
I remember with a smile a fitter I worked with who bought a tribly hat from Northampton market, he would wear it whenever he went out on road test or PDI thus ending up with a mild telling off, they used to get a fair bit of stick!
So bringing things up to speed, I am now a middle aged man, living in a middle class area, driving a Rover How does it feel? Saturday just gone saw me fly up to Brent Cross to meet Keith for the kerbcrawling article , armed with just my camera, snouts and wallet β no tools β the journey went without any murmer or hitch whatsoever.
They allowed me to continue on the proviso that I dealt with it promptly upon returning to leafy Horsham, which I duly did along with a wing repeater bulb. And a really annoying fault with the steering column adjuster lock. During spirited driving, the wheel would drop half an inch and giving the rim a good pull would cause the wheel to pull outwards owing to the lock system needing attention.
