Rover 75

Adams1

Jakg wrote: »

Utter rubbish - you'll lose a couple of MPG vs the manual, but still be looking at 40+

Hahaha! Have you lost your god damn mind? 40MPG?!! AUTO?! ESTATE?! ROVER?! 40MPG?! ESTATE?! AUTO?! 40MPG?!

The official figures are 28MPG from rover. And that's from new in a controlled environment. Always knock of 3-4 off the official figures and you have yourself 24-25MPG. So I'm pretty right in assuming that you'd get 25MPG, and that's if your lucky.

Adams1

pitkin2020 wrote: »

As for a paycheck rape please find me a car (and i'm being serious) thats a diesel that won't require stupid money to fix when it breaks. I'm looking at changing my car now and every estate i'm looking at around 2001-2005 in the 2k bracket talks of some serious failures with most repairs around the 1k mark. Vauxhall vectra fuel pump failure, ford mondeo DMF and injector, Laguna Electric problems all the new cars seem to just fail on everything. Having spent 1k last year changing the fuel pump on my astra its scary, I remember changing one a few years ago on a petrol fiesta and it was under £100 inc fitting lol

If you want my serious answer, I'd say anything from the pre-2004 VAG group. (i.e MK4 Golf diesel, or Audi A4 diesel.) or the older (pre 2005) Volvo S40 diesels. They all average around 40MPG in the city, and 55+ on the motorway.

I bought my old man a Volvo V40 diesel (estate) 1997 model, it's done 188,000 and some odd miles, and in the time we've owned it, it's only had the timing belt changed on it as it was due. 4 months and 8,000 miles later, still tooting along fine. Due for a service next month though. It returns a solid 35MPG within the city which is very good in my books. (for a 14 year old car that's turning over the 190k mark.)

As long as the car has it's full service history that's all you need. Before you buy, phone up the places of service, and ask them what was changed. If the major bits where done in its miles cycle, then you're all good to go. (I called up the last garage that serviced it and they said the water and fuel pump where changed 12,000 miles ago.)

bigjl

I drove a T reg manual on the Rover 24 hr test drive three months after buying a brand new Seat Toledo.

The only fault i could level at it was the strong centering action of the steering on this early model and the gearbox was a little.

The steering issue was sorted and may have only been an issue on the real early ones. The manual box stayed the same but the autobox was the making of the 75 diesel, as mentioned get a Roverron box fitted and you have nearer 130bhp on tap.

Fuel consumption is hardly changed by opting for an auto, a mate had three or four as short term lease cars for Private Hire work just nefore they went belly up, basically they got a new car every 10k or so. Round London he lost no more than 2mpg, and for the ease of use and reduced fatigue a price worth paying.

I would think the £1000 price is what the old boy was offered by some local dealer.

Come to think about it, if it has leather, is clean bodywise with 17k miles it is probably worth more than three grand down south.
Perfect Private Hire car. Will get nigh on 50mpg. When i had one on loan i got 5mpg better than my Toledo, the only reason i didn't buy was the depreciation on my Toledo.

If the Rover 75 had come out 3 or 4 months earlier i would have had one for sure. The first couple of years production where better built, real wood instead of plastic wood etc.

Even the non leather interior is a nice place to be.

KillerWatt

hartcjhart wrote: »

his trooper obviously broke down

It would make a refreshing change if something did break on it.
Engine servicing (£40) aside, all it has required spending on it in 3 years is £280 which was for 2 tyres, motoring doesn't get much cheaper than that.

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

someones dreamin. isuzu, please, those things were like boats have verry little specs to them and use fuel like like a drunken sailor drinks whisky at christmas.

I'm quite happy with the 28mpg it returns, especially as it weighs over 2.5 tonnes, and the Japanese know how to build & spec their cars out a lot better than the Brits do

getmore4less

I think I would buy one at that price to replace my aging 306, allthe decent estates I have been looking at are much more.

Picking a basic spec 05 75 glass's have
(Connoisseur SE tops out at £4.5k)



Rover 75 Tourer Classic
2.0TD Diesel 5-door Estate
5 Speed Automatic Front Wheel Drive
Year: 2005 05
Mileage: 17,000




Part-exchange Price:
Excellent condition:£3680
Average condition: £3300
Below average condition: £2860
Please note:
Unfortunately, we don't have a valuation for the requested mileage. However, we can value this car at 30,000 miles.

bigjl

Adams1 wrote: »

Hahaha! Have you lost your god damn mind? 40MPG?!! AUTO?! ESTATE?! ROVER?! 40MPG?! ESTATE?! AUTO?! 40MPG?!

The official figures are 28MPG from rover. And that's from new in a controlled environment. Always knock of 3-4 off the official figures and you have yourself 24-25MPG. So I'm pretty right in assuming that you'd get 25MPG, and that's if your lucky.

Are you sure that is the figures for the Rover 75 with a diesel lump?

I know one bloke that hammered his senseless and he never got less than 40mpg out of it.

I know lots of blokes never really noticed any drop in mpg when they switched from manual cars to auto cars, these were all new contract hire vehicles that went back to Rover at a set mileage, it started out at 10k then return though that might have changed later on.

My mate was the fleet manager and he went through 40 or 50 cars when this deal was around for Private Hire cars in London, 2003/2005 was when.the deal was around. He got on the band wagon in 2004 and the Rover 75 was the favoured car for many bluechip clients almost certainly due to the comfort and ride.

However what will surprise many is the drivers favoured it over Toyota Avensis or Pug 406 which were the two cars they had before the Rover deal.

My mate was gutted when Rover went belly up, very underrated car the diesel 75.

Jakg

Adams1 wrote: »

Hahaha! Have you lost your god damn mind? 40MPG?!! AUTO?! ESTATE?! ROVER?! 40MPG?! ESTATE?! AUTO?! 40MPG?!

The official figures are 28MPG from rover. And that's from new in a controlled environment. Always knock of 3-4 off the official figures and you have yourself 24-25MPG. So I'm pretty right in assuming that you'd get 25MPG, and that's if your lucky.

You mean the official figures of 40 MPG?

You understand were talking about the diesel here, not the V6?

getmore4less wrote: »

Picking a basic spec 05 75 glass's have

Glass' valuations (in fact all of them) are rubbish for these cars. They think a ZT V8 is worth £2k... that'd be brilliant if anyone was willing to sell theres for that!

Currently theres a 75 Auto Estate CDTi on AutoTrader with 30k for £8k - admitedly I think thats a little steep, but even a facelift with 60k on the clock is still the tick end of £4k. So like I said... get it bought!

Woody._2

Well I've taken the plunge £1k lighter but got a mint 75 sat on the drive. I'm well pleased with it.

GlynD

I had a 75 for three years, albeit the petrol 2.5l. I'd recommend the car anytime and I notice that a lot of my friends bought them subsequently because they were cheap but reliable with a ready supply of parts should anything go wrong. I've never actually heard of anything going wrong with one of them but like all cars there's bound to be something eventually.

I'd buy it and flog it into the ground. If that's genuine mileage you're on a winner. The flipping thing is hardly run-in.

GlynD

Woody. wrote: »

Well I've taken the plunge £1k lighter but got a mint 75 sat on the drive. I'm well pleased with it.

Well done that man. Come back in six months time now and tell us if you're still happy with it.