RE: Shed of the Week: Rover Metro
Discussion
Back in the 90's CCC did a cheapo track car challenge thing.
Each journo + 1 Dave Walker had to buy a cheap car and then compare them on a track day at Brands.
So, there was a CitroenBX, Astra GTE, BMW 325 E30 and a Metro 1.4.
The winner? The Metro. There was a glorious pic of the guy in the Metro overtaking a Subaru.... think I might have the mag somewhere.
Anyway. Metros can be a right hoot - just don't have a rusty one. Great Shed.
Each journo + 1 Dave Walker had to buy a cheap car and then compare them on a track day at Brands.
So, there was a CitroenBX, Astra GTE, BMW 325 E30 and a Metro 1.4.
The winner? The Metro. There was a glorious pic of the guy in the Metro overtaking a Subaru.... think I might have the mag somewhere.
Anyway. Metros can be a right hoot - just don't have a rusty one. Great Shed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DeIhk_bTpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4xW01kAY2U
As per the article, can be made to go well with the 1.8vvc
That suspension is decent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4xW01kAY2U
As per the article, can be made to go well with the 1.8vvc
That suspension is decent
I had a Metro 1.3L for a few years. Fine little car it was too. Amazingly enough, given its reputation in here, I didn't die at any point while driving it, by a cunning plan of avoiding crashing it into things. When my wife got her first MX5 she was warned off by a colleague whose relative had almost perished in one. Eighteen years later and on her 6th MX5, she too is still walking (or driving) this earth. Moral: cars aren't unsafe, drivers are.
DanG355 said:
I feel angry just looking at it.
I don’t. A girl I shared a house with in my last year at university (96/97) had the identical car to this. She was a fitness instructor and generally wore very little around the house, and what she did wear was made of Lycra. You could crack walnuts between her cheeks, which were basically on show most of the time.This shed has reminded me of these happy times, and for that reason I like it.
This is my mothers car, regrettably she's gone into a nursing home hence the reason for sale.
Mixed comments on here are valid.
I find it hideous to drive and certainly feel vulnerable on the rare occasions I have driven it but it is mint.
Surely someone would want it.
Tax is due at the end of the month so I'd consider £1350 and not having to renew the tax.
Mixed comments on here are valid.
I find it hideous to drive and certainly feel vulnerable on the rare occasions I have driven it but it is mint.
Surely someone would want it.
Tax is due at the end of the month so I'd consider £1350 and not having to renew the tax.
RM said:
Yes, but the metro was in the unfortunate position of having been in production for 17 odd years, and still in production, by the time NCAP arrived. Most other 70s designed cars were out of production by 97. Plus the metro had it roots in an early 70s design.
The Citroen Saxo was based on a 1970's design (the Citroen LNA/Peugeot 104) and was effectively a facelift of a facelift (the intervening car being the AX) and suffered similarly poor levels of crash protection, but that wasn't one of the first things mentioned the last two times a VTR/VTS was the shed.The Crack Fox said:
I have that on a t-shirt 
Ah, ha! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Driving-Metro-Old-Skool-H...SR said:
This is my mothers car, regrettably she's gone into a nursing home hence the reason for sale.
Mixed comments on here are valid.
I find it hideous to drive and certainly feel vulnerable on the rare occasions I have driven it but it is mint.
Surely someone would want it.
Tax is due at the end of the month so I'd consider £1350 and not having to renew the tax.
Looks good on the photos, could do with a better description and a few more pics if you're hoping to get top money. Maybe even a couple of underneath to show that it really is rust free Mixed comments on here are valid.
I find it hideous to drive and certainly feel vulnerable on the rare occasions I have driven it but it is mint.
Surely someone would want it.
Tax is due at the end of the month so I'd consider £1350 and not having to renew the tax.
Don't bother retaxing it if it's on the drive or in a garage, just get it sorned.
Most important, hope everything works out ok for your mum
One year, I will make it down to the Festival of the Unexceptional. Those entrants, and the owners' cars on club stands at the NEC show make for an interesting contrast to the powerful/luxurious/gorgeous (I did suffer supercar overload on my visit to Technoclassica Essen). Hopefully, if only for curiosity and nostalgia, it will find an owner who looks after it.
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