Thanks for sharing this time capsule. I never understood why BL didn't sell THIS car in the USA. I am absolutely positive it would have been a success. I guess they thought it was too small. I am sure it was not. Wouldn't have minded owning one back then, or now for that matter. I think it would have given the escort a run, and GM would have sent it's metro back where it came from and belonged. That car was ugly junk. I wonder if an alternate reality where it was sold in the USA if BL would be around today....an interesting thought

A Friend of mine had one. It went on and on and on. I've towing a trailer with stationary engines on it. Burned a bit bot dldid it. It was has late father's then he got it. And later gave it to his eldest as his first car

Thanks to Sadiq Kahn even the Police couldn't do this run in about 4 hours now. That man has ruined the city

Love the 80s knickerless blonde bimbo at 23:42 😜😜We had great advertising with acres of exposed young female flesh, look at 70s British motorcycle adverts too, equally as awful, but unfortunately we had the complete opposite with the abysmally built BL cars, as they used to expose acres of engine internals along the highways with amazing regularity. 😁😁 BL was shite

It astounds me how consistently the British motoring press raved about a new British car, only to absolutely trash it mercilessly just a few years later. The R8 Rover 200 was seen at launch as a massive achievement and an excellent car. But here, Quentin trashes it. Here, Quentin raves about the looks, handling, quality, spaciousness, and performance of the new 200. But seemingly in an instant, the car became an object of ridicule. It’s a strange phenomenon.

That was pretty awesome, a prelude to GTA games to come.

rot boxes no wonder they went bust

mb if so many people arent poisoned tehre wouldnt need to hae so many ambulances .. also i refuse to believe every fucking day i go out there are tthree or 4 ambulances on and about on the road .. something is not right .. there are really sick people in society ..

Not particularly big... really? The 800 was massive!

Always loved its curvaceous design, but it was bizarre to introduce a car that was between two segments of the market -- too big and expensive to be a supermini, too small to be a family hatch. The head gasket problem was of course a significant issue that damaged the marque's reputation, but no worse in reality than the myriad of problems afflicting modern engines - e.g. Ford's Ecoboost, Jaguar's Ingenium diesel, Peugeot's PureTech, etc.

I'm gonna say they wouldn't make it these days - although they'd probably just use a chopper

Actual death traps! The whole car was a crumple zone. Listening to the designers is terrifying haha “err it needs to be a bit rounder here” FML Hahaha

I’m 17 years old but wish I was alive around this time the police vehicles were so much cooler😍

Very skillful operation (driving) And a great icon of a car. I imagine it's the 3800 rover SD1 a mighty car that would easily outrun any german car

Reminds me of the first Getaway game

Some serious driving on display there, absolutely superb work by all involved! Not sure why but I found this quite emotionally charged too

I remember when this originally came out on video :)

SD1 brilliant police car, superb driving

Try doing that in an electric cae

Brilliant

Probably for George Best

Real coppers with a real police force, with no political narrative. I very much doubt the police being given permission to do a similar run today, which is sad. Good old London too, before these dreadful road calming measures which makes traffic flow worse. Time machine anyone?

I'd like to know the full background of the recipient. A lot of effort for someone who already had one rejection. Narrated by a convicted drink driver. Good to watch though.

I loved the panda cars the vaxhall Astria....

120 mph in a SD1 ? Thats brave , they were rubbish

7:16 Wow, I wish London's streets were that "busy" now!

Proper police car....same as the 2.8i Capri's that greater Manchester used....irreplaceable

I’m supprised the head gaskets didn’t go, how far cars have come , now there in golf r. , main thing is the lady survived, I wonder if she is still alive today ,

F*** me, she's not even British!

My old man had one of those Rovers back when petrol was less than a Quid a gallon, it was a bag of shyt from the way he was always working on it.

Wonder which special wealthy person received that organ..?

Didn't they have helicopters in the early 90's?

This was when we could be proud of our police, and what they could do, it's a different story now.... And did anyone else notice the white Pontiac Firebird at 14:09....

To be fair, it's a Liver... they could have used a police motorcycle to transport it... far less traffic issues there

back in the days when organ transplants actually mattered to the government

i had a v8 sdi when i wos 20 , lovly car very quick ,

No traffic. Good ol days.

shame thats it's blurry

Today the electric car would run out of charge whilst the risk assessment was being conducted. Then the diversity committee would have to consult the minister for funny walks.

Why wasnt the liver flown to Heathrow? its much closer to the hospital and theres the M4 most of the way to the hospital

Anyone else have visions of this liver being thrown about inside the picnic box, like a bouncing ball?! I think detective Gene Hunt was driving the SD1 smoking a cigarette! 😂

I had an SD 3.5, after an Renault 11 I felt like a king of the road. Hard to believe my current car, a 2.5 Forester puts out twice the horsepower and torque.

I'm here in 2024

That big old American v8 in them rovers sd1 sounds sweet. All those old motors , bringing back memories.

British Leyland. ❤

The police only move this quick now for controversial tweets

I wondered why the rover v8 wasn’t acceleration as quick as it’s capable.Then it became obvious why at the end.Even with 190 BHP the weight in the two front seats would of given it a power to weight ratio of a 1970s milk float.

AtoZ's, those were the days!

Love the SD1

When we still had real police. Go lads, go.