So with a fairly decent base salary and a Rover 200 (3dr) company car, I embarked on what was sure to be a lucrative career........
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Things did not quite pan out as I'd hoped 4. You see, people who did know about cars avoided Rovers for one basic (but fundamental) reason
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The cars - and this is putting it politely - were fucking piles of shit (as they were technically know in the trade)
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4 the price of a Rover 200, you could buy a Ford Focus which was a newer design, bigger, more economical, higher specced + better reisduals
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In fairness to the 200, it did come with wood effect trim but that may have been its only selling pointpic.twitter.com/uWN23cpcXd
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People who bought Rovers fell into certain categories (1) relatives of workers who got discount (2) OAPs who remembered the glory days
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Unfortunately, there weren't enough of these people 2 sustain Rover production as a viable business & so after a few doomed rescue attempts
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Rover inevitably went bust & your young hero lost his job, his Rover 200 and the occasional use of an MGF when the sales manager was on hols
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I'm sure at the time there were calls for the government to save Rover, carry on the traditions of car manufacturing in the West Mids
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@GeneralBoles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-NR-pF5y60 … @SKinnock His father's voice...we're going to hear this record again no doubt.
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