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I had one of these with the 1.4L 84PS petrol K series engine. Never had less than 40MPG, max was 48, average 44. 0-60 12s, easily gets to illegal speeds. http://www3.mg-rover.com/rover_GB_en/static/rover_ 25.html

I'm wondering why I sold it now..? Oh yeah, got one of these: http://www3.mg-rover.com/mg_GB_en/static/mg_zs_180 _spec.html

(33-39MPG so far)

I'm not sure what my point is.

I had one of these with the 1.4L 84PS petrol K series engine. Never had less than 40MPG, max was 48, average 44. 0-60 12s, easily gets to illegal speeds. http://www3.mg-rover.com/rover_GB_en/static/rover_ 25.html

I'm wondering why I sold it now..? Oh yeah, got one of these: http://www3.mg-rover.com/mg_GB_en/static/mg_zs_180 _spec.html

(33-39MPG so far)

I'm not sure what my point is.

I wouldn't say TVR or Aston Martin are "crap" nor are Bentley or Royal Royce, or for that matter Jaguar, or MG/Rover, or Landrover. :)

Can't you see? It's everywhere! Soon, there won't be anything but advertising left!!

Oh, crap, I seem to be doing it too! Close your eyes, it's the only safe way!

If the poor thing was built or designed in England, I'd bet my house that the problem is a leak of some sort.

Cars, baby bottles, hell, even programming libraries from England leak!

One day the U.S. will be running Microsoft software, and the rest of the world will not.

It is something of a hobby for me to check out foreign web-sites. I frequently go to GB, IE, AU, PL, assorted South American, Middle Eastern and Asian websites. Many of these websites are run by the big-names of the respective countries.

What I have noticed is that most websites are inaccessible, unless you have Microsoft Internet Explorer, and even if you can access it, it would look horrible.

While many big-name websites in the US makes sure that it will work at least at a minimum, these websites seem to think that Microsft is the only thing out there.

Again, many of these sites engage in immature Shockwave Flash based websites, which by now many big name companies in the US are avoiding and even when they do use it, provide alternative HTML only page. Other immaturities such as using images instead of text also abound.

I am not saying anything. Just putting forth my observations. Of course, one could say that I have been visiting all the wrong websites.

I will show you two extreme examples, one from GB (England) which is one of the most advanced countries outside the US and the other from India (which is one of the poorest and backward in the world). This should give you an idea of how the ones in the middle are.

Try visiting these websites with Mozilla, with Shockwave Flash disabled (I suppose for most Slashdotters, (myself included) going with Flash enabled would be a nastier experience):
[GB] MG Rover Select UK as the country on the entrance page (see also it's German website MG Rover Deutschland)
and
[IN] Tata Motors (a soon-to-be subsidiary of Daimler-Chrysler though).

Again, I am not saying things are super here in the US. It is bad, but so is it outside too. Personally, I wish you were right, then, at least, some part of this planet will escape. Unfortunately, the reality is far from rosy.

GrimReality
2003-10-13 03:32:26 UTC (2003-10-12 23:32:26 EDT)

Then there's turbo diesels. For example the Rover 25 2.0ltr Turbo Diesel has an extra-urban cycle of 67mpg which equates to 54mpg using US gallons. Performance isn't too bad either.

BMW purchased Rover (The Rover Group) from a bunch of peeps, including (I think) British Aerospace, for a large sum of money. Ran it for a few years, and then sold them.

Land Rover was picked up by Ford. Rover was purchased by a conglomerate of peeps, calling themselves MG_Rover, for £1 (that's one earth pound sterling - about a buck thirty!) and that included the MG brand. Unfortunately, BMW kept the Mini brand, and are now doing very nicely at selling Minis to everyone (as they are pretty good!). Rover are now doing very well out of the Rover 75, and the various MG branded saloons that are all absolute corkers, and the recently refurbished MGF (now MGTF) that's also a joy.

Rover's Website for any that are interested.