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1979 Rover 2600
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1979 Rover 2600
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All Rover SD1's are elegant, spacious and potent long-distance cruisers.
Everyone wants a V8 Vanden Plas or Vitesse, but the 2600 is actually the better bet, offering similar performance but with much more palatable fuel economy.
The Rover SD1 certainly caused a stir at its 1976 launch. With styling reputedly inspired by Ferrari’s 365 GTB/4 ‘Daytona’, the new car’s swooping hatchback shape and modular, blocky interior made a great – if rather unlikely – track and rally car.
ABOUT THIS CAR
- A very nice example of a Rover SD1 in excellent order.
- Low ownership - low mileage vehicle.
- Sounds good - goes great
- 5 speed manual transmission
- New Zealand new - and assembled in Nelson
- Straight body - nice paintwork
- Mechanically sound
- Runs and drives very well.
- Interior almost like new- all factory orginal.
- The car’s aerodynamic, modern, shape was a departure from Rovers past, and the interior similarly broke the mould. This was an elegant British saloon with more than a hint of supercar about it. Good aerodynamics in all respects, low drag to assist quiet effortless high speed travel…a design generally acceptable and hopefully timeless. All this was combined in a shape which would accommodate the increased space requirements more living accommodation and more load carrying space, provided in such a manner that the balance could be adjusted to suit the requirements of any particular movement.
- Comes complete with original service books, factory manual, service and maintenance records.
- Stunning car - rare to come by in this condition.
The Rover SD1was finally launched to rave reviews in the long, hot summer of 1976, priced below the Jaguar XJ6 to avoid interbrand Leyland competition. Advertised as the car of “tomorrow, today”, the motoring press embraced the new British flagship’s styling and comfort.
A car of thoroughly sporting demeanor and astonishing fuel frugality, that offers a specification, which no Continental manufacturer can match. A British high performance luxury sports saloon to take the place of the much-loved Jaguar 3.8 of the early ’60s.
These Rovers earned pretty much universal early acclaim winning the European Car of the Year awards in 1977, the first Leyland car to do so since the BMC 1800 in 1964. Yes, its as good as you'd expect it to be…and in many ways better. To date, it remains a pleasure to drive, the more so because it has found itself a rather sporting character which could not, surely, have been foreseen.
Will be sold WOF'd and Registered.
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NOTIFICATION AS TO NATURE OF GOODS IN TERMS OF THE CONSUMER GUARANTEES ACT 1993
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Waimak Classic Cars is not aware of any specific defects with the vehicle, however (a) such a vehicle being a classic vehicle may have mechanical breakdowns, electrical failures at inconvenient times and maintenance costs being part of and parcel of ownership of a classic vehicle; (b) reliability is a combination of the particular nature of the classic vehicle, how it is being driven, how it has been maintained, and to a certain extent luck; (c) because of the age of the vehicle, and its propensity to rust, it is likely that the vehicle would have been fully or partially restored, or at least repainted at some point in its life, maybe even more than once. Waimak Classic Cars does not know, and cannot give advice on how good any restoration work on the vehicle had been.
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