This car still sends a shiver down my spine...The company I worked for's chairman surprisingly swapped his blue Jaguar XJ Sovereign for the same colour Rover 600 (there was a huge increase in company car tax at that time...) as the 600 in full specification was being pushed as a ''Baby Jag'' to many company fleet owners. I was never a fan of the blandly-styled 600, & a work colleague asked me what did I think of the chairman's new car, which I half-jokingly replied ''it's a bit of a turkey-mobile...isn't it...?'' Fast forward to the regular one-on-one month-end finances & accruals meeting with the chairman, all went well until at the end, where he leaned across his desk, looking not very happy & said ''So Ben, I hear you think my new car is a bit of a turkey-mobile...'' 😳😲😩 My god, I go red & embarrassed just typing this tale out even now, at the time, I wanted the floor to open up & swallow me....I think my nervous reply was ''Er, er, well-it's-not-the-Jag-is-it-sir...?'' 😆
Apart from the 800, rovers from this era were not too bad. You had decent honda engineering, they had sorted out electrics and they were as comfy as anything. I have still to this day to find an affordable car as comfortable to drive as my old 414. Though, they would never shake off the reputation they gained from the BL days.
I had the Accord and my Mother had the 600, she got in my car once and said that it was exactly the same dashboard. we didnt know the inside story at the time.
I drive both at the time and I didn't reckon either of them much. Both decent cars and the Rover was very nice looking but I found myself comparing them to the Montego. The 620Ti was the best, not so much because it was way more powerful but because it didn't have that crap Honda engine that used to eat engine mounts and petrol and exhaust systems.
How can an engine eat exhaust systems? I have had several Honda engined 600s and they have been great. Never had to change an engine mount so really don't get what you are referring to.
@@mtamin1 Sehe ich ganz genauso. Ein Dummquatscher vorm Herren! "Crap Honda Engines".... Ich brech weg... Aber die K Serie von Rover war ja ganz große Klasse.....
My dad used to commute 180 miles a day in a later 618iL, combined we put 50k miles on it and sold it on 181k miles, it was leather lined, very comfortable and nothing ever went wrong apart from a holed exhaust due to corrosion. All we replaced was tyres, brake pads and changed the oil on occasion when someone remembered. It was brilliant and the guy that bought it wanted it because the cambelt on his failed at 280k miles and he wanted the engine. Probably the best 'rover' ever.
@@ronjeremyjnrNo. All 600's had Honda 4 cyl in 1.8, 2.0 and 2.3 specs except the flagship 620TI with a turbocharged Rover T-series and the 2.0 Rover L-series diesel which Honda used in their Accord.
