Rover History Also see Auto-History |
1884: The Rover Safety Cycle, recognisably a modern bicycle rather than a penny-farthing.
1933 Rover 10 [*]
Rover 16 [*]
1948 Rover 75 [*]
1948: Rover created the Land-Rover 4×4.
1950 75 [*]
Exploratory prototype estates of the 1958-67 P5 3-litre were built but not "progressed" [-Rover].
1963 and 1965: A Rover/BRM Gas-Turbine car raced at Le-Mans.
1969 2000 TC [*]
1984 SD1 3500 Van Den Plas [*]
Exploratory prototype estates of the 1976-86 SD1 (3500) were built but not progressed [-Rover].
1988: British Aerospace (BAe) acquired Rover Group.
1994: Rover Group sold to BMW.
2000: Rover sold off (to `Phoenix') by BMW. (Ford bought LandRover.)
2001: Station wagon version of the Rover 75.
2005 April: MG-Rover went into receivership after take-over talks with Chinese groups failed.
[*] Rover Car Club, Vic., .au,
concourse d'elegance, 2003.
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