The Irony of the CityRover 

The CityRover should have been badged the Austin City and sold for around £4.5k for the base model. Still plenty of profit, and the car’s practicality and value would have been better suited to the Austin brand as opposed to Rover.

I didn't even realise one can get a doctorate in motoring history these days. Clearly you must have one. Amazing video. Thank you !!

Nice presentation 👌. They have launched a model based on Land Rover, called Tata Harrier. The Tata Harrier will be the first Tata to showcase Land Rover DNA in the form of an all-new platform based on the Land Rover Discovery Sport.

The Land Rover-based Tata you speak of now exists, as the Tata Harrier and Tata Gravitas use the Land Rover Disco Sport platform.

Wow!! You never stop being interesting and each week you have yet another pleasant surprise for your viewers. Congratulations and well done again.

Nothing wrong with what your doing. Please don’t change anything. Always enjoyable.

Don't forget the Rover Streetwise which was based on the Rover 25 that launched in 2003

You sir are a natural . This is how top gear used to be .brilliant 👍

Very interesting. I've just subscribed

During CV lock down, I have developed an enjoyment in watching videos on British built cars. I've owned a few Rovers (414 and 214) and they were both very good for the money. The 214 I purchased for only a few hundred as a means of transport whilst I was waiting on a company car and although I had to fill the radiator daily, it did not let me down. You channel and 'idriveclassic' have helped keep me entertained and I enjoy the enthusiasm you and others have for these British built and designed cars.

Rover were shafted pretty much from the creation of BL right up until the end. The name was milked for all it was worth and had some real tat associated with it, and all the company could do was hark back to the P5/P6 days. Far too much was loaded onto the shoulders of Rover as BL fell.

I love new takes on the motoring history that's dear to me. Excellent story. Thanks for your effort.

The current lineup of Tata cars deserves the Rover name and are built to the European standards !!

I think I know of a recipe that could bring back the Rover marque quite successfully: You take the Jaguar XE, change the front and rear a bit---for example a grille akin to the P5, and maybe even some new, quad circular headlights---to make the car less sporty looking and more classy, replace gloss black plastic and brushed metal with wood and chrome (in a tasteful manner of course), and tune the drivetrain and suspension more towards comfort than sportiness. A Rover P7 (as an example for a name) would probably sell quite well, especially in China where business sedans are all the rage

Hopefully we'll see a new Rover on our roads in the near future? 😎👍 I miss my MG ZT 1.8T ⚠️😕😟

Very interesting and informative video....thanks, I’ve learned something from this piece of history. Cheers

I enjoy your reviews of old BL models.

I do hope you are right and we get to see Rover reborn!

Indica (city rover) may be MG Rover' s last car but it was Tata's first car.

Great stuff. By golly did they balls things up!

I’d love to see rover come back

My son had a city rover wow it was quick off the mark a real gem.

This car at that time cost 3000 pounds in india for top model and they sold it for 6500 for base model

This is an nice car at his time and it was the most demanded car and it provides nice futures that other car was not provide in this price and I also have this car in diesel engine and I 2015 the car is discontinued and now its hatchback car is tata tiago and tata cars are just awesome like tigor . nexon .hexa .harrier . altoz

Actually Rover engineers in India wanted to make more changes/improvements to the Indica at the beginning, eg gearchange, but senior Rover management wouldn't listen and didn't allow it so it was launched in the UK with perceived faults that helped to make it fail.

I almost bought one of these locally to me for a daily run about. Ended up buying a 1.4 Lupo and love it. Wonder whether I would have liked a Cityrover. Hmm perhaps one day :)

Really interesting enjoyed watching

Tata can sell cars in the UK with the Tata name. Some of there new cars like the Safari look quite good.

It would be great to see the Rover marque back one day.

The previous discovery sport is heavily re-engineered and rebadged and cheaped out and sold as Tata Harrier in India now

I wonder how a Mk2 Cityrover would look

Well researched and great content

Be great to see some Renault history; I know its not a brand you normally (or have ever??) cover, but they have a somewhat rich history of interesting cars that I think your might enjoy.

Hubbub is selling his CityRover for peanuts if you or anyone watching here is interested. Needs some welding and hard to source parts.

Well researched and presented!

Isn't it SAIC that own Rover now, and sell them as Roewe models in China?

I borrowed a 3yr old CityRover back in 2007 and to be fair it drove pretty well, was pretty economical and nippy, I quite liked it. So what about a feature on what is the definition of a classic car these days? I know that a lot of people say that it’s cars over 20yrs old, but does that mean that every 20yr old car on the road gains classic status?

Hubnut owned an old one for a bit a year or so back, fixed it up a bit and made a few interesting vids about it. I got the general impression of 'meh', in that it was nothing special, but ran well enough. The original reviewers were certainly pretty unimpressed, as I recall.There are still some of these on the roads and a couple of years back you could get a used one in reasonable shape for around a grand (I was almost tempted to buy one). Lots of older people bought them, didn't do much mileage in them, and they were probably garaged and looked after. Even so, that some are still around after nearly two decades seems to me, some kind of testament to Tata producing a fairly solid little car at least.

All good stuff - You added (very necessary) pictures as well as doing your homework, so what's not to like? I wouldn't want all your videos to be like this, but slipping the odd one in now and again is fine.

I see the city rover in the same vain as the toyota prius because people hate them but both work for a living and work well at what they do, the city rover's spiritual successor (even though its from a different company) is the Dacia Sandero in my opinion because they are both utilitarian city cars

I'm amazed on what go's on behind closed doors in the auto industry. Is Morgan still British?

Great channel..A bit Austin Rover happy...coming from a Ford man who drives a Vauxhall .. best wishes.

i really wish that the British Motor Industry Still Existed, imagine what they couldve been making today if they still existed

@Twin cam Now the tata cars are just killer Just search about tata altroz,tiago,tigor,harrier,hexa,nexon,etc...

I believe the reason Ford included Land Rover with the sale of Jaguar was solely to sweeten the deal

Indian make.. Originally tata indica

Who needs the jerks on Top Gear when you've got this guy?

Tata indica and city rover semto same

Re upload??

The CityRover was a pile of shite. Based on the Tata Indica it was outclassed by everything, made in India and using an old, puny 54bhp Peugeot sourced engine. It fell woefully short of sales expectations.

The Cityrover was an absolute joke, the very first ones has terrible build quality faults and flimsy interior quality, but while the later ones were better, it still wasn't enough to save it because the reputation set by the first was a bad impression that stuck like mud. Also to go to a turd world car manufacturer like Tata to ask them to produce a small cheap city car and then price inflate it to ridiculous levels as MGRover did was wrong and stupid in the extreme. No way was it worth the ridiculous asking price MGRover wanted for it either....

Rover should never have put their name on the city rover .... just a piece of crap