Rover 214 Si

It couldn't have happened at a worse time. My first car was constantly either being spat all over (nice) or having its wing mirrors kicked off by mindless oiks with nothing better to do but luckily this was always an easily fixable matter (if a little stomach churny). The Boyf was one month away from finally quitting his day job, handing back his company car and starting his own business when it happened. The vandals returned and this time bent off the passenger door and wrecked the interior by trying and failing to hotwire the car. I was devastated. Seriously. It may just have been a 14yr old ... more

I started driving my dads 5 year old Rover 214 SLI just after my 17th birthday. I had bought a Vauxhall Nova of my auntie but found a cheapest quote of £1200 for third party fire and theft was just too expensive. My Dads insurance was due for renewal so I shoped around for quotes to put me on my Dads insurance as a named driver. Eventually I found a great quote with CIS insurance fully comp for just £533. So my Dad put me on his insurance, and I started driving the car whilst I was still having driving lessons. The car is simply brilliant, it's nice to drive and easy to park up thanks to power ... more

Well I thought it was time I wrote a review on the very first car I ever owned. This is the story of my Rover 214Si. I was 19 years old when I started to learn to drive and look for that all important first car. I considered all makes and models ranging from vauxhall, ford and peugeot but I never came across anything that really tickled my fancy. My friend at the time owned a Rover 414i which I knew was cheap on insurance, cheap to run and tax and after having been in his I knew it packed a punch and sounded brilliant! The 400 though for me at the time was just a little too big looking and ... more

A CAR, AT LONG LAST A CAR OF MY VERY OWN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, that was my reaction 2 weeks into November last year when I bought my first car, only a couple of days before I booked my driving test. When I was looking for a car, there were a few things I wanted in it. Firstly was something with a low insurance group, I am only 18, and insurance is a killer as it stands, so adding to that wouldn?t be a smart thing to do. Secondly, it had to be in decent condition both engine wise and bodywork wise, I didn?t want to have to pay out too much too soon (as you can guess, I am on a lousy wage at work ... more

I bought my Rover 214Si in September 1998 and owned it for just over a year before buying a newer car. When I bought it (for £1,000) it had 100k miles on the clock and I would say was in average condition for a H reg (seven years old) at the time. There are still a lot of these cars on the road so I thought this may help someone looking to buy a second hand car. They would be quite good as a first car really, you can pick up a decent one for around £500 or so today I expect. My Rover was red with grey trim. The vast majority of these cars seem to have the same colour scheme, I have seen green ... more