Has anybody had a go against one of these? My brothers mate reckons his 220 is going to keep up with the bro's RX7 TT, I cant see this somehow but does anyone know any different?:dance:

:rofl: did I open a can of worms here or what?! I actually like the 220 Turbo:dance: but I'd still choose the RX7:D

Actually back in '96 I almost bought a 220 turbo coupe (in pacific blue btw, not nightfire pink!)

What did I buy instead?

 

RX7...... LMFAO!:rofl: :rofl: :dance:

Originally posted by Chris@GetGReddy

Amen to that Brother Amen :dance:

 

SISTER you mean. :D

Originally posted by james300

Adam certainly gets me hard, but thats cos I'm blatantly gay:D

 

 

Try Little Shrimp:D

This thread has run on a lot longer than I thought it would;)

 

Anyway i have a theory about why everyone thinks only old giffers drive Rovers (apart from the obvious, of course:D )

 

Has anyone noticed that when car manufacturers give their cars names instead of numbers, people say they drive a particular model (eg. Micra, Almera etc). But when they use numbers (eg 416, 220, 307, 911 etc) people refer to their car by manufacturer. (ie "I drive a Rover, Peugeot, Porsche" etc.)

 

Because of this all models from that manufacturer get grouped together, regardless of type. Therefore as the usual Rover 414 is driven by a flat cap wearing coffin dodger, all Rover drivers are assumed to be the same:rolleyes:

 

This is also true of the Nissan Almera (have you seen anyone under 80 driving one?):p

 

But the 300ZX is obviously a breed unto itself, coz it has numbers and a name of sorts:dance:

 

Richard:rofl:

I only read half this topic as I got bored!!!

 

I swapped my 220coupe turbo which I loved for a 300ZXTT and would never look back.

 

The rover is a nice car in its own right but the 300zx has it beat in every category for me hands down!!!!

 

Thats why I changed!!!!

 

Although reliability wise, the rover wins but then I probably bought a bad 300zx!!! Its a good one though now after £12.5K!!:p

Having had several rover tomcats and mg meastro turbo's mg montego turbo etc and spend all day working on them from new when I worked for the rover dealer ship as well as being on every factory course on these cars. you tend to get a bit of a picture of what these cars are like.

1/..m16/t16 engine is a fairly good engine, apart from the uncurable oil leaks permanently

2/...Then they modified the valve seals and valve seat angles several times to stop them burning out.

3/..then the ecu mulifuntion(mems) switch packs pack in so car won't run

4/..turbo model honda gears boxes struggle with power>> bearing failure

5/..changing wheel bearings regular

6/..can't stop wheel vibrations through steering& brake disc's changed regular

7/..factory alarms packing in and going off when ever they want

8/..these cars don't like parking near curbs, they bottom out on towing hook

9/..wind noise uncurable and leaking water in

10/.. window regulars bend like putty

11/.. t16 turbo which has special piston&conrod together not same as n/a

but still melt away even on std boost

 

etc

etc apart from them they arn't too bad if you get a goodun and give decent performance if you can hold on to the torque steer

montego turbo was a scream lol

Richard:cry: :dance: