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Rover 55 Sedan: A Proposal for a British-Flavored Chrysler 300 Than Never Was
Once upon a time, back in the days when the MG Rover Group was alive and fairly hopeful for the future [...] in the hands of BMW, the Bavarian carmaker was dreaming up a new lineup for the British company. Among the plans was one for the development of a replacement for the outdated, fifth-generation Honda Civic-based, 200/400 series, later called the 25/45, positioned under the 75 in Rover's car lineup.
We remember many proposals and concept sketches for the car from the period, but the folks from "Aronline" managed to secure some exclusive photos of a full size clay model that we've never seen before. Named the R55, it's a design proposal for a compact sedan slightly larger than the BMW 3-Series said to have been completed back in the Spring of 1997.
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Rover 75 Was Bmw's Rolls Royce For The Working Man And There's One For Sale In Michigan
Back in the late 1990s, the BMW Group tried to resuscitate the MG Rover brand with a neo-retro executive sedan named the Rover 75 and its sportier MG ZT sibling. Read more »...
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Land Rover To Spice Up Evoque With Victoria Beckham Special Edition
Now that Victoria Beckham has found some time to finish her work with Land Rover, the British automaker is ready to introduce the first special edition version of the Evoque compact crossover named after the former Spice Girl. More precisely, Land Rover...
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Bmw Talks About Its New Range Of M Performance Cars
After a shopping spree in the 1990s, which saw the BMW Group acquire the California based industrial design studio DesignworksUSA, the British Rover Group and the rights to the Rolls Royce nameplate, the Bavarian company cooled down and focused on building...
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New Range Rover Evoque: First Official Photo Of Compact Suv
We just received the first official photo of the all-new Range Rover Evoque, which is the production version of the LRX Concept. We're still gathering details so stay tuned on Carscoop for more. [Update] This here is the all-new Range Rover Evoque,...
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2010 Mazda3 Sedan: The Rejected Design Proposals
Rarely do automakers disclose redundant design proposals for a vehicle that has just been introduced to the public like the all-new 2010 Mazda3 Sedan (click here for our high-res image gallery and here for the video). But it appears that Mazda's people...
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