RE: Shed Of The Week: Rover Metro

[marshall100]

You have to admire the wild optimisim of a seller who blanks out the number plates just in case someone decides to clone his metro.

I mean, it could happen.

[Denorth]

this when you can get an Alfa for this money. Of course they have to do something different every time here, but not THIS!

[LotusEspritTurbo]

What a glorious and exquisite choice of car this week shed. A really pinnacle of motoring joy. Thank you for sharing.

I'll be around to look at it later, just reading instructions how to make a molotov cocktail.

[killingjoker]

Oh my f**k

[SlowStig]

I love it! I can understand the hate, well built company directors would have problems fitting into them...

If you crash them, as per most cars from the 70's and 80s you will potentially be injured, I have rolled one before and walked out without not even a scratch on me.

That one is a lovely example, and ideal for SOTW because it has created 6 pages of people commenting, mostly negative and quotes from Alan Partridge but nevertheless, it has provoked a discussion. Well played Shed, can't wait to see next week!

BTW, this is mine, topic is slightly out of date and needs updating but still gives an idea of what can be done to them;

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

(Current engine is roughly 180bhp...)

[djbobbins]

A bit unfair to compare the Metro to a Fiat 126 - the 126 was a snotbox tiny thing never designed to be in the same league.

As a veteran of a family of people who got Fiats as first cars (myself and both my elder sisters had 127s) and owned a Panda & two Unos, I'd take the Metro over most of those.

We had a brand new Panda in 1983. It got traded in 1986, because the wings were rotten enough to literally poke a thumb through. The (brand new) Uno which replaced it did 20k miles before water started to appear in the oil and dodgy piston rings meant sump pressure got high enough to start blowing the dipstick out. Evidently British Leyland pseudo-communists made cars no worse than their Fiat equivalents!

Anyone car to do a "how many left" check of original Fiat Pandas or Unos vs the Metro? I bet it doesn't work out well!

[Pommygranite]

When it came out What Car gave it a full 5 stars and proclaimed it a class leader...

[Blanchie]

FAIL!!!!!

hatefull cars but, did lots of miles in one as my Rover Mini cooper S was always in the garage, so had 1.1 Kensintons as curtisy(spelling fail lol) cars, think there was a knightsbridge one also.

actually thanks to these cars I learnt J and handbreak turns, plus all the other techniques you wouldn't dream of doing in your own
I do remember one rover garage passing comment about one of those needing a new clutch after I had used it and did I know anything about that .......

[Ian 1800]

OMG



In a single word - NO

My first car was a Metro, a 1982 1.0 HLE. The HLE bit was important as it meant it had 47bhp instead of 45bhp. Those extra 2 bhp made the difference.....

[Dale487]

KTF said:

Until you hit something or something hits you.

The only car that is worse in a crash than a Peugeot 106.

Has anyone said anything positive about the Rover 100/Metro?

[Bonefish Blues]

To be fair, it was a decent car to learn to drive in. And on that basis nobody who learned in one ever bought one.

[Blackpuddin]

Dale487 said:

KTF said:

Until you hit something or something hits you.

The only car that is worse in a crash than a Peugeot 106.

Has anyone said anything positive about the Rover 100/Metro?

yes, six posts above this one

[BL Fanboy]

This car has just been put in SOTW to provoke the same old same old.

"Shrug" This weeks choice does nothing to pique the interest of anyone who's been on PH long.

Its just encouraging readership "churn" of the product that is a commercial web forum these days.

[cookie1600]

dtmpower said:

Why waste energy with a crusher - just set fire to it !

Matches and fuel aren't cheap you know....

I think this will be coming to a Top Gear car-smashing segment soon, since all the Marina's must have gone by now?

[Phateuk]

I had one of these for my first car in 2001 - an MY92 J-reg, paid my neighbour £400 from my hard earned paper round money savings. How is this worth nearly a grand 13 years later?

Having said that, I thought it was a decent run around at the time - reading these comments has been a bit of an eye opener...

[J4CKO]

KimJongHealthy said:

AlexHat said:

willisit said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

its not a maligned car, its a bloody death trap

the crash worthiness was so bad they where pulled just after NCAP tested them

This.

Pretty sure you're going to die or be mangled enough to want to have in any road traffic incident. Awful, horrible things.

I believe this is the only car to have the dubious award of a 1 star NCAP result.

Wonder why...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUs-h23sp7M

Here is the test for the E36 3 Series,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdtYlqV7VU


Ok, its better than the Metro, but considering its from 15 years later and its double the size, still pretty dire, I hope all those M3 drivers will stop using them.

It is only in the last few years we have been able to pile into stuff and not end up dead, the Metro was not unique in its ability to let its occupants join in the carnage.

The 106/Saxo didnt do any better than the Metro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3FdnWU5ecg

C Class Merc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nXYES5MW88

Pug 306

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4PTjtzjm2o

[GranCab]

Ok ... if you REALLY want a Rover Metro - here's a nice one for about half the money ...

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C543188

[cookie1600]

Pommygranite said:

When it came out What Car gave it a full 5 stars and proclaimed it a class leader...

What Car Azerbaijan?

[Denorth]

cookie1600 said:

dtmpower said:

Why waste energy with a crusher - just set fire to it !

Matches and fuel aren't cheap you know....

I think this will be coming to a Top Gear car-smashing segment soon, since all the Marina's must have gone by now?

if you leave it for long enough you will see it collapsing on its own

[Gandahar]

Motorrad said:

I passed my driving test in a Metro, albeit an older one than this.

I also had my first shag in one.

I still don't want to own one. Not then and not now.

I screwed my wife to be in a red Metro in the middle of Watford NCP carpark one night. Beat that.

Sooperb as Alan P would say.

The car, not the shag, that never improved.