RE: Shed Of The Week: Rover Metro Chairman

[anonymous-user]

mr_spock said:

I'd like to see PH buy this and donate it to a family with a disabled child who can't afford an adapted vehicle.

Who's in?

donating this monstrosity to a disabled family, are you having a laugh?

They will be on mobility where they get a new safe modern car, not some clapped out death trap.

[Konan]

I'm kind of intrigued as to what they added to sure up the structure after robbing the metro of it's roof. Few bits of box section lurking under that fiberglass?

[IanMorewood]

What a pile of poop, wouldn't give you £50 for it never mind the other £900.

[eldar]

IanMorewood said:

What a pile of poop, wouldn't give you £50 for it never mind the other £900.

At least you could use it as a garden shed.

[Pat H]

If it was free, then it might be of some use for a drunk odd job man to transport his wheelbarrow.

Beyond that, it is neither use nor ornament.

[AlexC1981]

The Spruce goose said:

donating this monstrosity to a disabled family, are you having a laugh?

They will be on mobility where they get a new safe modern car, not some clapped out death trap.

No more of a death trap than any other 80s or early 90s small car.

Terrible shed, but well written article. Someone has been on the Friday lunchtime beers I think

[Steve Barrett]

Just think someone designed and built the 1st 1 and stepped back took a long hard look and said "yep cracked it" and sold them...

[rallycross]

Steve Barrett said:

Just think someone designed and built the 1st 1 and stepped back took a long hard look and said "yep cracked it" and sold them...

Did this model inspire that other vile turd of a car the hippo lookalike MINI Countryman ?

[MrGeoff]

Wow, this is a throw back, I remember when I was a kid and you'd see cars like this going round. Amazing how much things have changed, as others have said, this thing must have robbed wheel chair users of all their dignity! Still someone needs to buy this and do some old top gear style mods to it, maybe fit an armchair in the back and move the pedals to the back.

[Benjamonk]

That's just ****ing stupid. I do worry about PH these days.....

[mrtwisty]

MrGeoff said:

...someone needs to buy this and ... fit an armchair in the back and move the pedals to the back.

Has anyone here got Ed China's email address?

[ColonelKurtz]

My eyes......

[9k rpm]

What a monstrosity, yet strangely intriguing. As for the regular Metro......... I remember a teacher having a racing green one that had some sort of MG badge on. I thought it was quite smart but then I was only 9.

I recall a conversation with a former habitual joyrider (now retired) the metro was his steed of choice due to:
1. Locks made of chocolate and extremely accessible ignition
2. It's tiny proportions enabling it to be driven on the footpaths of the local estate (Marsh Farm in Luton if anyone knows it) and thus evade local plod in their panda cars

[Blakewater]

Richard-390a0 said:

So bad it's good rofl !.

BTW the Metro came out in 1980 not 1990. ;-)

This particular generation of Metro came out in 1990, but it wasn't a game changer like the original Metro was. I remember my mum looking at one alongside the Fiesta and Corsa and dismissing it for being so relatively small and tinny.

[GCH]

Someone point Clarkson, Hammond & May towards it...I am sure they could do something with it.

[to3m]

Shed of the week? More like shed of the year.

[mikEsprit]

In the US, tidy it up and take it to a car show and you'd get a lot more crowd interest than anyone with one of the 30 corvettes, one of the 30 mustangs, and so on. It would also make a neat car for parades.

High approval here.

[rodericb]

Poor mans ring taxi. No need to be ensconced in meters of roll-cage tubing, behind a fortress of a dashboard with the best German nuzzink-can-go-wrong electronics keeping it on the road. Instead it's two metres up, face full of view, exaggerated physics and only the skill of the driver to keep you from destruction, and all at probably less than half the speed!

[dunc_sx]

Made me chuckle, fair play

[Earl of Petrol]

Shed. You're fired.