I wonder then, whether the decision to go with the Domani was a direct result of Honda being annoyed that they'd lost the opportunity for their usual joint project. I had always assumed it might have been rather more that without being able to split the development costs with Rover for a new car fr...

Welcome to the forum :) Seats from any other R3 Rover 200 will be a straight swap - ie. Mk3 Rover 200, Rover 25, Rover Streetwise or MG ZR (the seat cushions for the ZR and some versions of Streetwise are a very different shape and contour, but the frames underneath them are the same as the 25). The...

GTiJohn wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 7:11 am There's a slightly different up on ARO too now - https://www.aronline.co.uk/facts-and-fi ... te-equity/

That seems a more realistic take on the possibilities to be honest (perhaps benefits from better internal knowledge of Rover Group?)

......I was talking to someone the other day who recounted a story to me of one of their customers who had an R8 and having traded it in for an R3 then complained that the rear seating area was not as spacious as the R8. ...... That seems like a breakdown at the dealer end of things - the R3 was ne...

I would have quite liked to have seen Rover been able to do more with the HHR platform, like the R8. Imagine a freer hand to restyle it, and have updated Tourer and Coupe versions. The ZS after all proved that there was a good car in there somewhere! We all like to blame BMW and rightly so but let'...

Whilst the R3 project began as a Metro/100 replacement, it quickly evolved away from that idea for a number of reasons; the sudden increase in sales of the 100 being one, and the sheer size of the R3 (being initially based on R8 underpinnings) - at the time it would have been far too big as a Metro ...

i was originally trying to find a build date.... You can't find the actual build date from decoding the VIN; that will only give you the model year. The model year applies from when new revisions were applied on the production line (often as early as September/October the preceding calendar year), ...

You could try manually decoding the VIN using the information from the XPart epc which is duplicated on Rimmers web catalogue: https://rimmerbros.com/c/MG-Rover-200-CC-400-Tourer-Vehicle-Information - the VIN information for the earlier pre-1995 R8s starts about half way down the page, but the secti...

Thank you for that link 961tat - I hadn't thought of looking at DMGRS :slapme I wonder where they are sourcing those from (or whether they are simply existing stock) as they clearly won't be getting them from Motaclan/XPart and if they are still being manufactured somewhere, I would expect Motaclan ...

The original mild steel coolant rail is officially ' No Longer Available ' (which normally actually means ' out-of-stock and we aren't likely to get any more made '). The stainless steel version is currently available - Rimmers (or any other genuine MG Rover parts supplier) should currently be able ...