MG ZR 160

I suggest that because of your age and obvious inexperience you learn a little more about the subject before you aggressively try to make your misguided points, scoobystu555!

inexperience??? im not inecperienced in rovers that is for sure, infact not many cars . i have owned about 6 or 7 rovers now and all have been great reliable cars. not one went wrong. so i hve had plent of experience with them and they have been great

I have had more than 10 rover cars in my time and most of them have been reliable (including 8 valve K series engines) but the 16v valve versions have always been trouble (especially the 1800cc versions), every one I have known (be it mine or a friends car) has suffered HGF, one car even went twice over the space of 5000 miles!

i have had 1.4 1.6 1.8 and 2.0 includin the turbo. the worst was the 1.4 best was the 1.8. but it was a vi with the vvc mec with an uprated klinger 3 layer hg one it, but it never needed anything the hole time i had it. i think the best ones i eva had was the 416 si and i, ver comfy great to drive and never failed anything and they were all 16 v. of course the best ones to get is the 216 with the honda engine

A friend of mine bought a new 414 a few years ago and the HG went after 44k, he had it done by Rover and got it back on the road, 7k later it went again, got a new engine fitted, new engine died after 22k and got it done again, this time it last 35k before it went again (he serviced it on the dot), another friends '99 freelander has had 3 HGFs in the 6 years shes had it!!! It seems the 8 valve 1.1s and 1.4s are stronger engine, yeah, the Honda units are inifinetly better..

thats odd, when i bought my 416 i the person that had it b4 me didnt have to do the head till after it got to 150k on the clock then the changed the engine with 70k on it and i musta dn at least that when i had sold it and never failed on me, the only one that the head went on was the 214 sei. i thin kthat the t series engine is better found in the 220 gti and gsi plus the turbos. think it is stronger

Yeah, the old M and T series engines were better (and alot torquier too), but they had problems with the cam bolts stripping the threads out of the head, my both my 820i and my MG Maestro EFI had that bother (the maestro had the O series which is the older brother to the M and T series, just with an 8v head, I had to get them helicoiled, the KV6 in my ZT190 is a solid as a rock thank god!

sweet. my brother had a really nice 220 gti turbo, was immaculate intill he got drunk and rolled it 5 times lol oh well we learn from our mistakes. but we have both had rover turbos. i have had the 620 ti which was great but it had a clutch problem nad my brother had the gti and a coupe fdh model which was quite nice. he has a wrx now tho, best car he has eva owned. i have a vectra now lookin at gettin another scooby. least with them u no they wont break lol

I had a '95 820 vitesse with the 197bhp 2.0 turbo in it, rocket machine (compared to what I was used to at the time) nice cars Subarus, fancied a new Legacy boxer Diesel till the price of diesel went up, might as well stick with petrol now cause diesels aint any cheaper to run!

yh the 820 is a big car tho, better to get the 220 turbo probly alot lighter, although dnt no about that. yh legacy is a nice car. i had an old legacy single turbo. was very quick, uprated turbo, springs etc. and it was gas converted so was cheap to run. yh i no u are better off with a petrol atm. my vectra does 42 mpg which is more then my brothers Peugeot 306 diesel does. crazy