Gets me really annoyed to think of the Phoenix Four who I believed at the time would rescue the company and hoping for a tie up with Honda which were so successful in producing the 600 and Acclaim . Rover Cars that rarely broke down !

I've always thought it was a great shame Jon Moulton of Alchemy didn't get to buy it. He could see the company was doomed, churning out tired old Hondas. As a specialist sports car maker it may have survived but the cuts he was proposing were too politically harsh for the Government. I'm sure I read somewhere that when the Phoenix bunch got their paws on it that he predicted it would last five years at best. He was right. When that dreadful CityRover came out, all could surely see the game was up.

It's a real shame. The 75 was an excellent car and you still see quite a few around today. The MG variants also had a bit going for them but were, with the exception of the ZT, over styled. The facelifts did them no favours. If they had found a middle ground between the Rover models with their stick on wood and the MG models with their stick on spoilers, they would have had a fairly good model line up..

I think the struggle they had was finding a partner to work with. Honda and BMW had already had their goes and I don't think anyone else fancied it. I suspect all their best people went with Mini and, to some degree, Land Rover too.