Rover 45 1.6 Saloon

There is a fine line between tweaking a car to make it more useful to the consumer , and trying to make it look like a completely new model. Rover however, not only crossed this line, but also took that line and added a wood-trim and tried to pass it off as it's new car! When Rover aquired the Honda Civic design in the 90s, and based the 400 upon it, were they honestly planning to keep dragging it out until way after the Civic had been replaced on numerous occasions, or was it a "well actually the time has come to replace it, but we can't really be bothered" decision? Saying the Rover 45 is ... more